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 […]
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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, […]
When master chef Paul Elbling opened La Petite France in 1970 he introduced Richmonders to classic French food, tuxedoed waiters and fresh flowers. For two decades the restaurant reigned as […]
A salute must be given to the long-timers who’ve stuck it out in Richmond for decades: Jerry Cable and The Tobacco Company; Tom Leppert at Sam Miller’s; Ron Joseph and […]
Ask other chefs to name Richmond’s best, and many of them say J. Frank, the soulful and serious food purist whose European training led him to New York and the […]
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, […]
The enigmatic Paul Keevil came to America as a British rock guitarist and wound up working at a Sunset Strip restaurant called Millie’s and Jack’s. In 1989, he introduced California […]
She was only 19 when she came to Richmond, but the incomparable Stella Dikos (left in 1999) ascended to the culinary firmament when she and her husband shed the Village […]
Heinz Enggist, whose death this fall struck a chord with dozens of local chefs, was considered the unsung hero of Richmond cuisine, never in the spotlight but always respected for […]
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 […]
The Ripp family, from the early days of O’Brienstein’s (then Havana ’59) and Can Can Brasserie, have always known that in this overcommitted and over-caffeinated world, what customers really want […]
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