The Washington Post [hearts] Charlotteville restaurants, especially the commitment to local food.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
Sideblog
Some guy trying to cross the train tracks on grounds impaled himself on the top of the spiked, 6′ tall fence designed to keep pedestrians off the tracks. #
Progress owner Media General is having a hard time paying its debt. #
A local guy by the name of Peyton Williams intends to run against Rep. Robert Hurt. #
Somebody has taped a piece of paper to a statue! Alert the populace! #
Remember the UVA Law student who invented a story of how he was racially profiled and humiliated by UVA police? He’s been acquitted of honor code violations. I guess nothing is an honor code violation. #
Three months after winning his case against Fluvanna County, a court has ordered the county to pay Bryan Rothamel $37,000 in legal fees after they passed a law prohibiting him (and others) from displaying the county seal. #
Albemarle will issue an RFP for a new Crozet library. I’ll believe it when I see it. #
Amtrak’s Northeast Regional will likely have its funding renewed by Congress, continuing our daily rail service to D.C. #
Albemarle needs you to volunteer to serve on boards. ACSA, Places 29, Pantops Advisory, Planning, Police Citizens Advisory, Region Ten, and RSWA Citizens Advisory all need members. #
-
Archive for Sideblog »
Charlottesville Blogs
- Funky Friday: Abraham Inc.’s All-Out Klezmer-Funk Dance Party! John Edwin Mason
- Friday Reading Assignment: Troubles Patience_Crabstick
- Heart Month Tip 3: Stand Up Jennifer Stover
- pools of light zoe krylova
- Groundhog Day Parade – Sunset, Thursday, 2 February 2012 BVD
- - BVD
- Your Voice Matters – SB 359 Susanne
- More details about SchoonerSQL performance, please! Xaprb
- project bio-sphere Gillian
- Green Dining Meeting Minutes, 1/30/12 Kendall Singleton
-
Clear
40°F
-
Sat
49/34
-
Sun
41/29
-
Mon
47/27
>>>…the food here is far better than it should be in a place with about 40,000 year-round residents and 20,000 broke college kids.
“Broke” college kids? He must be kidding. There are some, to be sure, but overall? I liked the article, agreed with a a lot of his reviews, etc. But that one line about the broke college kids was just distractingly erroneous.
Thanks for the link!
And this writer did not even hit some of the less expensive places to eat (i.e., places college students can afford to eat). C’ville was always good for local restaurants. What says Charlottesville better than a sandwich from Bodo’s Bagels?
Didja notice that the writer described the original location of Albemarle Bakery as a “dilapidated storefront”? Not exactly. Albemarle Bakery’s original location was in York Place, when the building was brand new. Granted, not as nice a location as where they are now and certainly not as spacious. But, “dilapidated”? I don’t think so.
Harry if I’m not mistaken the york place was the second place Albemarle Bakery was- didn’t it start out in the corner of the Wachovia block where a former bakery had been (across from Hamilton’s)?
Oh, man, you’re good, Perlogik. I was right with Harry on that — I had the same thought when I read the article — but I think you’re right. There used to be some great little foreign bakery on that corner that sold weird little pastries and mysterious sweet drinks. And I think that was Albemarle Baking Company when they first got started.
Wasn’t the foreign bakery called Antojitos? That space was a bakery in different iterations for a number of years before that too, IIRC.
Weird, I only remember ABC at York Place. It wasn’t a dump, but certainly not as spiffy as the digs he’s got now.