Restaurants

The owners of a Fan District restaurant are taking a page from some of the region’s largest restaurant groups by eyeing expansion in the suburbs.

A California-based burger joint has taken its first bite out of metro Richmond’s restaurant scene.

A shuttered fast food restaurant building straddling the Richmond-Henrico line soon will trade flame-broiled Whoppers for orange chicken.

A Hampton Roads-based restaurant franchise is casting its net over a wider swath of metro Richmond.

The last Virginia holdout of a national pizza chain has closed in a Henrico County retail center.

From the moment Mike Wilbert and fiancee Caitlin Kilcoin stepped foot in the Stoplight Gelato Cafe about two years ago, they knew its owner was on to something special.

Sam Huang has caught the restaurant bug again. “I didn’t think I’d be at this point again in my career so quickly, but here I am,” he said of his new chain.

After a year on the road, a local food truck born out of its owner’s triathlon training is settling into a vacant Lakeside storefront.

A popular local chicken chain is growing in a Chesterfield suburb.

“What I’ve had to do is learn the hard way,” said owner Kathleen Richardson, who for the second time in a month is closing a location of her home-grown café chain, while also zeroing in on a bigger space in the region’s western suburbs.