Restaurants

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.

The fast-food chicken chain with a cult-like following is preparing to roost in the Atlee Station section of the county.

Two new restaurateurs are preparing to add their own voodoo to the Fan.