You know about Virginia ham, peanuts and maybe even wine… but what about cheese? Yep, our agriculturally rich state also has some delicious producers of the dairy delight we all call cheese. You can learn about and taste some of Virginia’s cheesy bounty at Ellwood’s Café on August 8 from 6 to 7 p.m. Ellwood’s [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Cheesy Knowledge
Thursday, July 28th, 2011The Birds are Coming to Richmond!
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011No not the creepy Alfred Hitchcock birds… well, actually, it might look just a little like the Alfred Hitchcock birds when 10,000 Purple Martin’s swarm Richmond’s beautiful Shockoe Bottom on their way to South America. Here in the River City, we throw a festival when this slew of flyers stop into town! This year “Gone [...]
Restaurant Week & Watermelon
Monday, July 18th, 2011What’s that you say? Regular restaurant week and Sampling Shockoe aren’t enough for you? You want more discounts from Richmond’s best restaurant? Well, you’re in luck! The Carytown Restaurant Committee is hosting the neighborhood’s own restaurant week, “Taste of Carytown,” August 1-6. The event is being hosted to raise funds for the Richmond Public Schools [...]
Bastille Day in RVA!
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011Raise a baguette, beret, bon bon or bottle of bordeaux—Bastille Day is this Thursday, July 14! You can get in on France’s national celebration at two restaurants here in town. Amour Wine Bistro is offering a four-course French dinner for $45 at 7 p.m. made up of two appetizers and two entrees each paired with [...]
Fabergé Revealed
Thursday, July 7th, 2011Anastasia’s whereabouts may never have been discovered, but you can get a taste of the elegance experienced during her family’s reign when the largest collection of Fabergé goes on display at the VMFA. From July 9 through October 2, Fabergé Revealed will showcase more than 500 objects created for the Russian imperial family by jeweler [...]
Dragon Boat Race
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… dragon boat? Yep, you got it, 40-foot people-powered canoes decorated with Chinese dragon heads paddling to the beat of a drum and racing down the James River. You can see it for yourself Saturday, July 30, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the WhatIfCreditUnions.com Dragon Boat [...]
Make Reservations Now: Sampling Shockoe
Friday, July 1st, 2011Richmond, it seems, is the city of restaurant weeks. We’ve got two citywide food-filled weeks, a new one in Carytown (we’ll post details soon), and one in Shockoe Bottom and Slip that returns at the end of July. Sampling Shockoe takes place from Monday, July 25, through Sunday, July 31. During this week, the participating [...]
