Restaurants

Once more, with curry

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An upscale Indian restaurant is slated to open next month in the space that housed Byram’s Lobster House for decades and Tower Fish House for days.

Ribs, grits and guajillo chilies

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A pair of Capital Ale House employees are launching a restaurant in Jackson Ward with a twist on Southern cuisine.

New restaurant’s motto: All aboard

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Flatheads, a floating restaurant aboard a 78-foot yacht that a year ago was on the bottom of the James River, should be open by the end of the month.

The icing on the cake

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A Richmond cupcake shop is betting that Charlottesville has as big a sweet tooth as Richmond does.

Monday Q&A: Open season for shucking

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Ryan and Travis Croxton, owners of Rappahannock River Oysters, are opening Rappahannock at Third and Grace streets.
The 10-year-old oyster business has opened two other operations this year: An oyster bar in Washington’s Union Market and a tasting room at one of their three oyster farms in Topping, Va.

The king, with a side of guac

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Austin-based Chuy’s, a Tex-Mex restaurant chain known for its eclectic decor and homages to Elvis, has signed a lease at West Broad Village.

How a laundry room becomes a kitchen

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Some familiar faces from two popular Richmond restaurants are ripping the washers and dryers out of an old Church Hill laundromat and opening a farm-to-table joint where the menu is a living document.

Baja Bean’s Barbaro moment

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“One moment I’m leading the pack, then the next I break my leg and they shoot me,” says the managing partner at the dive bar expected to have to relocate next year.