A meaty Stew this month, with new restaurants and nightclubs in Shockoe Slip and the Bottom. Plus second locations for a few longtime Richmond restaurants.
Restaurants
Big changes brewing for local coffee shop
The smell of roasted coffee beans will soon be drifting from Sheppard Street over to Patterson Avenue.
Food cart back up and running
Some updates on the burgeoning food cart scene, including two new carts and one closing.
And the award for best new restaurant goes to …
RIchmond Magazine shows some love to the area’s top restaurants.
A happier hour ahead?
If a Northern Virginia delegate gets his wish, bar patrons won’t have to have to know the secret password to get happy hour specials anymore.
BlowToad … come and get it?
New pizza joint BlowToad opened in the former Double T’s space in Carytown last week.
More fro-yo in the mix
Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be any more variations on the frozen yogurt shop, here come two more.
The Stew: Restaurant roundup for 1.27.12
Tons of meat for this edition, including new concepts in Carytown and the Fan, a steakhouse that sold for $1.5 million and a new addition to the Stew: notable restaurant inspections.
Seafood staple kicks the bucket
A 70-year-old joint that made headlines in 2011 for a a bizarre crime and then reopened under new ownership has closed.
Plaza Azteca ads fourth location
Plaza Azteca will open this spring in the former Hill City Chop House location on Brook Road.