The Dairy Bar (since 1946)
Nathan Cushing has a nice profile of the Dairy Bar over at RVA News: The restaurant dates to 1946, when Curles Neck Farm opened a plant to process its dairy and produce ice cream. While Scott’s Addition is now replete with industrial businesses and buildings, the area was still underused at that time. “I believe […]
Nathan Cushing has a nice profile of the Dairy Bar over at RVA News:
The restaurant dates to 1946, when Curles Neck Farm opened a plant to process its dairy and produce ice cream. While Scott’s Addition is now replete with industrial businesses and buildings, the area was still underused at that time.
“I believe this is probably the first building, if not the second building, in this whole general area called Scott’s Addition,” Webb said.1 Attached to the Curles Neck plant was a public restaurant that also “served as the place for workers at the plant to come down for lunch,” Webb said.
The plant closed in 1986. But the restaurant remained, even expanding to nearly double its size after a family took ownership and renamed it The Curles Neck Place. The family kept the restaurant until 1997. “And that’s when our family took over,” Webb said.
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