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February 28 Economic Blackout: What You Need to Know

by RVA Staff | COMMUNITY, EAT DRINK, JUSTICE, POLITICS, SMALL BUSINESS

Starting tonight at midnight, Americans are being asked to do something that might feel unnatural in a culture built on convenience and consumption: stop spending. For one day, The People’s Union USA is calling for a nationwide economic...

Will Proposed Liquor Law Changes Help Virginia Businesses? Local Restauranteurs Have Their Doubts

Conversations in the General Assembly about changing Virginia liquor laws may be long overdue, but local restaurant owners fear the legislature still doesn't adequately understand the issue. With low ceilings and dim, colorful lighting, Lady N’awlins’ main dining area...

Queer Women, Safe Spaces, and the Fight for Equality in Kitchens 🏳️‍🌈

Out of more than 660,000 restaurants in the U.S., fewer than 7 percent are led by female chefs. The food and restaurant business has an inherent bias against women, and years of discrimination in the industry have made it difficult for them to climb to the top of the...

Big Kitchen Brings Big Flavor To Scott’s Addition

A renovated diesel engine repair shop is home to a new food concept in Scott’s Addition. The Big Kitchen opened its takeout and delivery-based business on Wednesday, with the vision of creating meals from scratch that people can enjoy at home. Restaurant co-owner...

RVA ON TAP: Have Your Fun, and Drink It, Too

What’s happening, craft beer lovers of RVA?! Welcome to this week’s RVA On Tap, RVA Magazine’s weekly column for all your craft beer-related events, releases, festivals, and all the booze news your hearts desire. If you missed the last column, you can check that out...

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FYI Richmond, This Is What a Dive Bar Looks Like

By RVA Staff

Recently, Style Weekly’s ‘Best of Richmond’ named Bamboo Cafe, “The Best Dive Bar Where Everyone Knows Your Face”. I like Bamboo Cafe. Bamboo Cafe is a nice, dark place where I can meet friends, have a pizza (seriously, their pizza is lowkey one of my favorites), and maybe walk to another bar. Probably a less classy bar. Bamboo is never the first...

Tapped: Lickinghole Creek’s Something Better IPA, Fine Creek’s Deliberator Dobbelbock, & Legend’s Fairy Crosses

By Amy David

What’s happening craft beer lovers of RVA?! Welcome to this week’s “Tapped,” RVA Magazine’s go to weekly craft beer column where you can find all your craft beer-related events, releases, festivals and all the booze news your little hearts’ desire. If you missed last week’s beer news, you can check those out here. Our cup is overflowing with news...

Pizza Peddlers Pop Up on Pine Street

By Amy David

These days, more and more Richmond food trucks are planting roots with their own brick and mortar spots. Happy Empanada recently set up shop in Westover Hills, mobile Texas-style BBQ truck ZZQ expanded with a huge location in Scott's Addition, and fried chicken truck Mean Bird opened their shop near Sticky Rice last spring. Adding to that list is...

Spoonbread Bistro Scoops Up Second Location

By Sarah Kerndt

“We opened September the 20, 2016. It was supposed to open for lunch, but we never got the chance to open for lunch because dinner took off like gangbusters and we could never get to the lunch, and we still haven’t gotten to lunch.” Those are the words of Spoonbread Bistro's owner and Executive Chef Michael Hall, describing the boom in business...

Tapped: Hardywood’s Oyster Stout, Castleburg’s Above the Salt Gose, & Ardent Turns Four

By Amy David

Tapped: Triple Crossing’s Juicy Brews Invitational, Lickinghole’s Great Commander, & Steam Bell Turns 2

By Amy David

Twisted Ales Brewing Closing

By Amy David

Sad news craft beer fans, one of Richmond's breweries is closing its doors. Manchester's Twisted Ales Brewing announced that their journey had come to an end, coincidentally on their one-year anniversary last weekend. "Our adventures in the brewing industry have come to an end...Life has unexpectedly set the Price family on a new and exciting...