Restaurants

The former CFO of an aerospace firm is trying his hand at the local restaurant business and taking over a long-standing restaurant and bar, where he plans to make some upgrades.

Feeling cramped in less than 400 square feet in its Lakeside home, a busy breakfast restaurant is moving into a roomier space in the Fan.

A pizza chain with another location in the works in Chesterfield has signed on to a new development west of Short Pump that has recently landed a string of restaurant tenants.

With the Virginia Lottery taking over its space, a downtown lunch restaurant is closing its doors next week. But its catering business will live on under the ownership of a former local competitor.

A country western bar and restaurant — line dancing and cowboy hat-wearing waitresses included — is hoping to fill a hole in the Midlothian market.

A short-lived music-themed coffee shop franchise near VCU has called it quits, leaving a Carytown tobacco company to set up its own cafe and hookah concept in the space.

Another storefront on a Shockoe Bottom corner is being filled in by a restaurant duo with two other ventures up and running nearby, and this time steak is on the menu.

With a burger restaurant in the works on the Boulevard and another venture planned downtown, a local restaurant group is keeping the momentum going with another sushi and steak house in a new Short Pump development.

The former owner of a local sports bar and a general contractor are teaming up on a new causal restaurant venture on Iron Bridge Road.

A restaurant and wine bar is giving up its Carytown real estate to take over a larger space in the Fan that lost its longtime tenant earlier this year.