What started as a hobby grew into pop-up events and now a brick-and-mortar location at 2416 Jefferson Ave.
Spotty Dog Ice Cream Co. finds sweet spot in Union Hill mixed-use building
Restaurants
Cafe Beignet RVA taking over shuttered Carmela’s spot in Shockoe Bottom
The new restaurant at 3 N. 17th St. will be a stationary offshoot of Brittany Williams’ mobile fried pastry business.
Lebanese restaurant leaves Innsbrook area for spot in Stratford Hills
Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon, which employs young people with special needs, will open next month in the former home of Max’s Positive Vibe Café .
Shake Shack coming to Richmond as part of Willow Place shopping center redevelopment
The burger chain’s first location in the region will be along Broad Street on the site of a boarded up former Applebee’s owned by Sauer Properties.
The Pit and The Peel preps two new locations, sells its building in the Fan
The juice bar’s owners bought the former Anderson Printing Co. building on Main Street for $375,000 in 2020 and sold it for $1.4 million last week.
Shockoe bar owner bringing Cure to former F.W. Sullivan’s space in the Fan
F.W. Sullivan’s at 2401 W. Main St. closed during the pandemic and never reopened. A new bar plans to open there in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
Arcade bar chain powers up Richmond location in Short Pump Town Center
DraftCade, which is also in Kansas City and Toledo, features more than 60 arcade and pinball machines and has 60 kinds of beer on tap.
Thalhimer adds to holdings along Arthur Ashe Blvd., lines up big-name tenants
The real estate firm paid $2 million for another acre just off the boulevard and landed Raising Cane’s, Starbucks and Chipotle for a neighboring retail development.
Manchester is getting a Chipotle
The Mexican restaurant chain will open its 15th store in the Richmond area this fall at 505 Hull St.
Owners of ZZQ and Ardent are flipping into the burger business
Eazzy Burger will open in a garage adjacent to Ardent’s beer garden at 3200 W. Leigh St. in a reunion of sorts between Alex Graf, Chris Fultz and Tom Sullivan.