by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Drink, Food, Restaurant News
By Jeff Maisey Five years ago, Barbara and Joe Curtis opened what was only the second brewpub in Hampton Roads. Their decision proved insightful given the ever-expanding cast of breweries in the region. At the time, nationally-known Gordon Biersch operated a...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | Drink, Food, Restaurant News
Words by Diane Catanzaro and Chris Jones Photos by Diane Catanzaro Picture this: You’re sitting at a long table with thirteen new best friends in a well-lit room, the ceiling festooned with blue and white checkerboard banners from the Paulaner Brewery in Munchen...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 23, 2018 | Food, Food Reviews, Restaurant News
By Betsy DiJulio “It needed some love,” said “Cowboy” Neil Waranch of the former home of Stoley’s on Great Neck Road in Virginia Beach. For six weeks, he loved up the grungy space, maintaining the long bar and overall footprint, but giving it an appealing update...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 13, 2018 | Food, Food Reviews, Restaurant News
By Marisa Marsey Dining is theater; everyone plays a role. There are settings, choreography, presentations. Open kitchens bring backstage to center. But most folks rarely see preproduction; the late-night set-building and rehearsals leading to the invitational dress...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 28, 2018 | Food, Restaurant News
By Jeff Maisey A single, 450-foot long table cloaked in pristine white linen stretches down the center of America’s most famous road — Duke of Gloucester Street — in the heart of the pedestrian-friendly Merchants Square in historic Colonial Williamsburg. Strung...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 28, 2018 | Food, Food Reviews, Restaurant News
By Betsy DiJulio If you went looking for a tasty vegan Philly Cheesesteak in a punk rock-leaning pizza and beer joint—with a custom 33 tap bar—you’d be wasting your time. That is, unless you went looking at Cogans Pizza in Ghent (where its known as a Philly Sub)....
