restaurant
From Russia with love: New restaurant/nightclub comes to Preston
Published on Oct 23rd, 2012
7 comments Attempts to revive the former Outback Lodge location on Preston Avenue seem to have been going on ever since the former roadhouse/restaurant closed in 2009. For a brief time, it was a place called...
Everybody's place: Citizen Burger Bar set for Memorial Day opening
Published on Apr 29th, 2012
6 comments Restaurateur Andy McClure says he's been trying to open a place on the Downtown Mall for several years. And he came close a few times, once at The Gleason, and another time closer downtown where Jean...
Trinity�s trinity: location, atmosphere, and an infamous chef
Published on Nov 20th, 2009
4 comments Goodbye O'Neill's; hello Trinity. The upscale Irish pub on The Corner opened in October and it's already making a name for itself. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER After months of renovation, the former O'...
The Southern: not just another music hall
Published on Nov 19th, 2009
0 comments The Southern's Andy Gems and Lauren McRaven hope the music hall will also be known for its cuisine. FILE PHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE Back in 2005, when Lauren McRaven opened The Flat on Water Street, she...
Staunton�s culinary coup
Published on Nov 17th, 2009
1 comments Zynodoa, Staunton’s stylish contribution to southern cuisine, the local food movement, and big city chic, raised the bar recently by hiring chef Michael Lund, who comes to the restaurant after six...
Restaurant Week(s)? Bel Rio, Fossett's offer encore
Published on Jul 16th, 2009
0 comments C&O owner Dave Simpson, center, with his Bel Rio partners Jim Baldi and Gareth Weldon, says the Belmont eatery will offer a Restaurant Week-style deal next week. FILE PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR By...
Guilty: Jury convicts Wood Grill murder suspect
Published on May 29th, 2009
1 comments Escorted by an Albemarle deputy, Roderick "Guam" McDowell, 25, leaves Circuit Court on Thursday, May 28, a day before a jury recommended a sentence of 60 years. PHOTO BY GORDON BLOCK After two-and-a...
Inmates talk: Wood Grill murder trial enters day three
Published on May 29th, 2009
1 comments Escorted by an Albemarle deputy, Roderick "Guam" McDowell leaves Circuit Court on Thursday, May 28 to return to the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail after the second day of his murder trial....
Horrors relived: Wood Grill murder trial begins
Published on May 28th, 2009
2 comments Roderick McDowell, 25, is a former employee at the Wood Grill Buffet, accused of murdering William Godsey, the husband of a night manager, on April 12, 2007. "He just kept beating him, and beating...