Husband-and-wife duo Rawleigh and Jaya Easley purchased The Mill’s lease at 4023 MacArthur Ave. and its equipment and are planning to open a new restaurant in its place called Neighbor.
In the midst of expanding their fast-casual Japanese food concept to Short Pump, the Benavides brothers are taking an offshoot of their Southside Mexican spot into a new development on Roseneath Road.
“It’s a process. It’s like a labor of love. I’m making pizza all day,” said owner Evan Byrne, who runs the new business out of his shop The Hop Craft Pizza & Beer.
A bar called Cure lasted only a few weeks in the Main Street spot and now the former owner of The Riviere in the Arts District is bringing in a new concept.
Three new Ironclad cafes will replace the three Caribou Coffees that Delaware North has operated at the airport – in the A and B concourses as well as the shuttered cafe in the airport’s atrium.
The takeout-only concept is from John and Jayme Taxin, who launched BigWife’s in 2020 as a pop-up in Bookbinder’s in Shockoe Bottom. It sells nine different one-pound macaroni and cheese dishes.
Deferred six times since plans were introduced in September and after hearing neighbor feedback, the restaurateurs agreed to conditions such as no live music, no liquor, no more than 24 people on the patio and closing time at 9 p.m.
The owners of the Short Pump Mellow Mushroom, including local hotelier Jay Shah, recently opened a new location inside a hotel at the Virginia Beach oceanfront. They’re headed to Northern Virginia next.
“Most existing kava bars are in Florida. We were out there one time and happened upon a few different kava bars. That’s where the idea was initially sparked from,” said KavaClub cofounder DJ Lee.
Lyne and Randall Doetzer, who opened Adarra in Jackson Ward in 2019, said their goal was always to find a forever home for the restaurant and that they were competing with developers for the Mamma Zu property who wanted to raze it in favor of apartments.
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