Archives: Shockoe Bottom

Food News: The end of an era in the Fan, and RVA’s storied restaurant scene

This week: It’s the end of an era–and a new beginning–at Commercial Taphouse in the Fan. Plus, The Luncheonette opened this week, and we’ve got some interesting–and intricate–stories of how a few of our fair city’s latest establishments came to be.

Gaston sized storm would flood Shockoe again

It’s a storm that’s bigger than anything we could ever build and we realized that from the beginning that we were never going to build an infrastructure to make Gaston not happen again.

Food News: GWARBar, Chicks and Waffles, and Richmond’s food truck folly

This week: GWARBar brings upscale junk food to Jackson Ward, drag queens take over Richmond CenterStage for the “Chicks and Waffles Brunch,” and Southern Living Magazine honors four Richmond restaurants in its “100 Best Restaurants in the South” list.

More police, less crime in Shockoe

Effective crime fighting or creation of a “police state”.

Shockoe Bottom baseball stadium opponents planning protest at The Diamond Sunday

Style Weekly fittingly calls the upcoming protest, which organizers hope will draw up to 1,000 people, “A Diamond Ring.”

Baliles to introduce plan for City to buy Shockoe properties

Yet another development in the ongoing drama that is the Mayor’s Shockoe Redevelopment Plan.

Food News: Supper at Lunch, German cuisine on the Hill, and BOGO dessert

This week’s food news is about as hot and sticky as the weather outside. Another Shockoe Bottom restaurant closes as one opens on Union Hill, Supper comes to Lunch, and the RTD bids adieu to a longtime restaurant critic.

Shockoe placed on list of 11 Most Endangered Historic Places

In all of American Shockoe Bottom is one of eleven singled out as endangered.

Grace Japanese Noodle now open in Shockoe Bottom

Fresh noodles made every day.

UPDATE: Archaeology unearths new group of RVA advocates

Indiana Jones would approve.

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