Purveyors of Taste
Back in the late ’80s, Richmond’s idea of fusion was a chalupa appetizer and bratwurst main dish at the Texas-Wisconsin Border Café. Along came Sosie Hublitz and a little later […]
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Richmond has learned to drink more than Chablis and merlot, due in no small part to the patient education of long-running wine merchants such as J Emerson on Grove Avenue, […]
It wouldn’t be a party in Richmond without excellent caterers, preferably Tuffy and Leslie Stone of A Sharper Palate. In 15 years they’ve plated dinners for thousands, weddings for hundreds, […]
Good things come to those who wait, especially if they want seriously good Italian food. We finally got ours when Ed Vasaio (pictured at Mamma ‘Zu in 2003) a man […]
No local restaurant has galvanized the community like the Positive Vibe Café, where Garth and Max Larcen have managed to corral some of the city’s best talent into an ongoing […]
Michael Hall stands apart from frou-frou food trends, preferring to invent his own techniques. “I want to put out clean-tasting, fresh food,” he says. The Culinary Institute of America grad […]
No matter how much competition other grocers bring to the market, the very-Richmond Ukrop clan is as intimately involved with local food desires as anyone. Lately that’s meant natural, antibiotic-free, […]
There weren’t a lot of options for vegetarians in the mid-’70s other than grilled cheese and mashed potatoes, so Michael King and Eric Walters filled a niche with the vegetarian […]
If restaurant marketing has an effect on a city’s eating habits, then Jared Golden and Michelle Williams (pictured at The Hard Shell in 2003) have set a standard with their […]
Loved and/or reviled, Jimmy Sneed (pictured in 2002) earned the city’s first celebrity-chef status at The Frog and the Redneck in the early ’90s; Julia Child and other luminaries were […]
Dale Reitzer has the mojo that makes national press sit up and take notice. An alumnus of Jimmy Sneed’s The Frog and the Redneck, he was named one of America’s […]
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