Restaurants

The owners of the chain’s Midlothian location have signed on to operate at Richmond Eats, a ghost kitchen in Scott’s Addition. 

The owners of the Hofheimer building in Scott’s Addition are reinventing the property’s namesake restaurant.

A local real estate investor has teamed with a restaurant industry veteran to take over the restaurant, which became independent after the Virginia Barbeque franchise system collapsed a few years ago. 

They will join Chipotle, Raising Cane’s and Starbucks, whose buildings are already under construction at the Thalhimer Realty Partners project on Arthur Ashe Boulevard.

EAT Restaurant Partners President Chris Tsui said a pending lawsuit has “no effect on the forward progress of the food hall,” and that they’re looking to award construction contracts in the next few weeks. 

Scott’s Addition’s first planned food hall has become the subject of a legal battle, while a parking lot dispute elsewhere in the neighborhood continues to play out in court.

“We talked about it when we would purchase packaged ethnic food like Indian and Thai. Like, ‘Couldn’t you see Ethiopian food in this market?’ It’s something we’ve dreamed of.”

“This small space is begging people to come drink liquor and swim into the sounds,” Josh Novicki said of the new concept.

Founded in 2015 by University of Richmond alumnae Michell Walrath, Organic Krush opened the Short Pump outpost in July 2019, as the company’s first location in Virginia.

The ruling at Tuesday’s hearing leaves KavaClub and founder Fred Bryant in continued regulatory limbo, which began shortly after it announced its plans to open at the beginning of the year and serve the psychoactive drink kava.