Well, in case you have been living under a rabbit hole in the last few weeks, you may have missed out on some juicy restaurant gossip. It seems as though one of Charlottesville’s finest is for sale, someone new is doing late nights and a former player has lost its mojo. Which is which?
You have to guess…
A little birdie tells us that our once famed frog-legged Boheme has shut its doors and will soon be morphing into high-end Italian restaurant. We think we know the backers for this little gem, but Italian food has A LOT to live up to in this town, so let’s hope the future purveyors know what they are doing. I hope for real Italian food. Please make it come true. We will let you know if you don’t live up to the “high end” name!
Echo confirmed Rapture is for sale. No word on pricing or reasoning, but I would guess they have a pretty sizable rent payment and R2 wasn’t carrying them? Who knows. Should we buy it? (kidding.. we couldn’t review ourselves. Or could)
Finally, a new late night THANG will happen at Ten for “those in the know.” Since you read cVillain, you are in the know. We encourage you to attend.
Any more restaurant rumors?
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No raw egg in the Carb then no deal.
Friends were talking of a falling out between the massively jerky Ten chef and management. Supposedly dude is on his way out.
I predicted the Rapture selling back when Orbit got sold. Because the same person that owned Atomic owned Orbit and owns Rapture. Looks like Andrew Vaughn wants out of the restaurant scene.
Why high end? WHY???
Can’t Edo from Edo’s Squid and Mama Zu fame in RIchmond just open up one of his places here? The price point (pastas $12-18, entrees $18-26) is perfect, and the food is actually Italian and deliciously so.
Whoever you are, if you try and charge $22+ for a plate of pasta and still get it wrong, you will not last. Be warned. We no longer appreciate being teased with the promise of Italian in this town.
i predict that what the fuck is a late night thang?
DANPRI IS BACK.. look at that
Maybe Rapture will become a better music venue.
Everyone wants to do the late night thing now. Jealous of OXO’s success?
whatever rapture turns into, it needs a unisex bathroom and cocktails crafted from the scents and flavors of bath & body works.
Edo’s Squid
*Swoon*
That would be great, and I don’t even eat seafood.
did Stanley just swoon?
/notthatthere’sanythingwrongwiththat
No no no no no no no. Leave ten the hell alone. It’s absolutely fine the way it is.
@ 8 Everyone wants to do the late night thing now. Jealous of OXO’s success?
Gotta call you on that one. Escafé was rocking before anyone even realized there *were* any speakers in OXO.
well, she did say “success” not “idea”
/can I get a SNAP?
ORLY? Wheres eduardo (who’s “idea” it was originally) to back me up on the success of early days…
/hula hoops and bubbles!
I LOVE pushing Yo’s big red buttons….
Is OXO a success?
I’m with Greg.
OH SNAP
When is this “late night thang” happening at Ten?
Well, I believe eduardo is at ten now, so who knows?
@19 was @17, obvi
@4, Lys has it totally right. Just open up a nice, non-kitchy, fecking GOOD restaurant on the mall. Even it if it is pricey, you’ve got to make it good or else your goose is cooked.
Well there go my plans to open a restaurant that serves really bad food.
Dang.
If you named it Dang, they’d come for a while. Probably drunk and looking for Bang.
@13: I lub me some Cafeteria but OXO gets a steady crowd every weekend. Just becuase Thor pretends to hate it but still drops by doesn’t mena it’s not successful.
You can get away with bad (or at least uninteresting at best) food if the prices aren’t too high and the atmosphere is nice (cough cough Fellini’s, Melting Pot), but we have enough mediocre Italian (Carmello’s, Vivacci’s, and do I even include it - Sal’s) already.
@4 - It kills me that you can easily eat much better and CHEAPER Italian in NYC’s Manhattan than you can in Cville. The best Italian meal I ever had was at Lupa (a Mario Batali place) and the prices there even skewed lower than what you have above: http://www.luparestaurant.com/menu-NEW.html .
These pretender places in town need competition.
@15: Of course with *complete* reverence for the masterful spins of B’Yo, the early early days of the Cafe had Stroud spinning on Thursday nights…
@ 29 Too true. How could I have forgotten that? And nuff respect - Stroud’s skills on a cdj are insane.
I used to come to C-ville to see him when he was Thumper and played with Omar and Sinestro. Gud times.
hey 26 were you around when FAF was outside Escafe’s door (Eastern Standard)?
/we must know each other.
@32 Indeed, on both counts. Those Fridays were a hot mess.
C-VILLE says Restaurantarama has recently heard a flurry of rumors that Rapture is for sale. Well, kids, that’s old news. Rapture’s been on the block for a while now, and recall that owner Andrew Vaughan has already unloaded Atomic Burrito as well as Orbit Billiards recently this spring. The truth is, as one business broker source of ours tells it, “restaurants are always for sale for the right price.” You catch your average overworked and highly leveraged restaurateur at the right moment and he will happily hand over the keys before jetting off to some much needed R&R in Jamaica.
I think Mike Rodi is part owner of Rapture
What’s C-VILLE?
@36 IT’S IN ALL CAPS- doesn’t that make it part of Spicy Bear?
@36 something I can let my dog pee on and not feel bad about it
@34: See @3
@36: C-ville weekly is really uptight and has asked that they be referred to as C-VILLE and nothing else
39 - additionally, I believe that if someone else uses that hyphenation without intending to reference the publication, they get the stocks. It’s apostrophes for the rest of us.
I believe that if someone else uses that hyphenation without intending to reference the publication, they get the stocks
We shall soon see about that though…
/ya still with me on that kyle?
it is simply mind-blowing how bad the c-ville website is, and that they still haven’t done anything about it.
breakdown of front page, by column:
1st column: search box, house ad, menu, tons of ads
2nd column: flash piece, poorly formatted content, weather (who cares)
3rd column: house ad, calendar, ads
4th column: all ads
compare to the hook:
1st column: calendar, pointless webcam, weather (who cares), personal ad
2nd column: flash, better formatted content, images
3rd column: actual news and comments!
4th column: ads
enough said.
Hi. They get the stocks? Animal stocks? Company stocks? Stockings? I’m confused.
You know, the stocks. Those things you have to put your head and wrists in and then they lock it. Then people walk by and throw tomatoes at you.
Then people walk by and throw tomatoes at you
Ahhh, so its a death sentence then.
/electronic coli!
Oh, hi there, internet: Stocks.
Oh, you are right then. Yes next person who uses C-VIILE improperly gets stocked (?) in front of our offices.
We will also have a basket of rotten salmonella tomatoes available for throwing purposes.
C-VIILE?
C-VILLE IS C-VILE. Hahaha. Hey guys, I was kidding. Stop. Let me go!
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I want some bonds with those stocks
YO oy - where is that on the fetish scale
@42 - maybe C-VILLE should start charging $40 a season for an extremely un-organized newspaper and upgrade their terrible website’s code with someone else’s that they bought the code from
i came here for valuable information about an obnoxious late night dance party scene thang at an established successful restaurant that wants to commit suicide, and all i get is jokes. jokes jokes jokes, you guys. that’s all you do. this is a serious website, get with the program.
@3, 34: All I did was confirm it, but I do remember shen predicting its demise a few months ago.
asperand50 - right around here - next to the mustache fetish (SFW)
44, 46— yes. And Shenanigans– there was a brief but fantastic time a while back when they lost an “l” from their sign on their dt mall storefront and proclaimed themselves to be exactly that.
asperand50 - also, it’s just to the left of this (also SFW)
OMFG I am so not surprised that Boheme closed down. I know there is some bizarre Cvillain leftover Lillith/BYo/Eduardo loyalty to this place but I had brunch twice and paid mega bucks to be served freezing cold bacon, cold flaccid eggs Benedict and watch MULTIPLE people leave in disgust because the service was dire…. in a restaurant with 10 customers and 4 servers present.
I am not a gourmand by any standards and only ever had brunch… returning because I was shocked at how wretched the experience was and so SO wanted it to be better only to be fiscally raped for another $65 and leave thinking ” Did that really just happen or did some one slip a Roofie in my soggy french toast?”
/Italian not my thing so not excited at all
Anyone hear anything about Cassis being for sale and/or its late night?
What’s Charlottesville going to do without sweetbreads on french toast with pomegranate sauce?
Perhaps B-Wilk will pick up the slack and have an all pomegranate and chipotle menu.
I too have heard that Cassis is up for sale, but I just heard that OXO may be closing at the end of the month. hmmmm
No! No OXO too! Where Shen she will dispel this rumor.
After graduation seems like when a lot of places are sold or closed. Or is that just me?
BtB: I’ll dispel that. OXO is not closing. However I hear they are playing some new music and the staff is hotter than hell. Also I heard that someone we all love may perhaps may be behind the bar sometime in the future. At least I hope so. That way if you like to feast you eyes… -you just need to make one stop.
speaking of good music. I will be making a return tonight and dropping the tunes. Come on by and shake your groove thing.
XSV
And I will be spinning at X, if your want to make it a circuit. Of course you will all be stuck in the eighties.. hee hee… but roll up and say hey, if you are so inclined.
I will be spinning on the floor.
Oxo is a success. The Snatch is where it all began way before any of us were around (DJ STROUD packing the mall in front of the Standard)… back before there were noise ordinances/Omni assholes… the scene is a success. You can dance if you want to! The more options… the better! its called progress… hooray for OXO, X, Ten, Escafe, R2, Outback… anyone that facilitates the lifestyle is a hero in my eyes. PLUR = )
@62 I believe in The Wash Post they said we have more restaurants per capita than Paris here in CVILLE… the recession doesent help either.
in soviet russia more restaurants per capita have you.
XSV, well done tonight sir. The more Sanford & Son, 3’s Company, Full House intros you can do, the better.
p.s. you didn’t do a Full House one, but I’d/we’d love it if you did.
ef that Tuffy. If I hear one more spongebob transition my buzz will be permanently destroyed. I propose a ban on television theme songs for the sexy dance floor crowd.
/remixes okay? no.
When someone posted about Boheme having bottle services back in March, I was pretty sure they were having trouble and that move was grasping at straws.
By the way, remember that bartender I liked so much? I finally found out where he is and it’s somewhere none of us can go.
His former place has gone the way of the suck, so I now join the cVillain camp that hates the place.
@67: see @29,32. Some of us were there…though luckily for me it was well before posting pics on tha internets became so ubiquitous. It was a great deal of fun, but not so fun to pull the closing shift…(note to restaurant managers: make sure at least one sober staff member knows how to unlock bathroom doors from the outside).
Does anyone know if that restaurant in the old Hong Kong space, Savour, is open? Just curious, that and the fact that the “coming very soon” sign up for a year have been driving me crazy.
26, we so totally know each other!
@74 there are waitstaff ads online that also say it will be opening “very soon.”
@72 you may be referring to the same place I’m thinking of, but a friend of mine recently took a job bartending at a country club (not quite my scene) and I am quite disappointed. I don’t begrudge him his benefits (not many bartending jobs have those) but it still sucks for his former patrons….
Ten’s chef is indeed on the way out due to conflicts with the “big guy” and MK … although he’s currently working on opening a restaurant in NYC called Mr. Jones (the website is still under construction @ http://www.mrjonesnyc.com) …
… @67 a bunch of laptop DJs don’t count as a “scene” … no offense …
@69, back off the soviet russia jokes. only i’m allowed to make those.
seriously, are there even going to BE any restaurants left when i get back? wtf?
@ 79 Just because the cville said I played on a laptop, doesn’t mean I do. In fact I never have. And I would definitely characterize wednesdays at the snatch as a ’scene’. Especially lately. Just my two coppers
a 30% reduction in cville restaurants would be a 100% improvement.
for fucks sake people, open a business that actually produces some kind of good or service. 300% mark-ups on alcohol and food-network-wannabe cuisine is NOT a business model.
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I bet we are talking about the same person. I was by no means a “regular”, but felt like one on the rare occasion that I went to his bar. When I knew no one, he made introductions. When I was indecisive, he made suggestions, but never seemed to be pushing.
I don’t think I ever really thought about the fact that these people in the restaurant/bar business don’t have benefits (I think that’s what you mean). I guess people who work at hotels and clubs do?
Are we not allowed to know who this mysterious bartender is?
I understand if you want to keep his anonimity.
@84 this is the bartender who also DJ’s a certain ‘phriendly’ music show on Saturday mornings.
And while UpStart said that he never seemed to be pushy, my friend would put a glass in front of me and say ‘try this.’ But he always pushed something he thought I’d like.
We did experiments on Oy tonight and now he is now that pop up toy from that Billy Mumy episode on Twilight Zone but hotter in a zombie type of way. I’m hoping someone corrects my grammar. Or wants to hire a bartender because that’s so important to one person w/ the intelligence of a gnat but much beloved by the “not so swift” Or maybe I’ll get pseudo snarked by the pseudo intellectuals. Yay.
Taliesin, do I know you?
Go after now he is now…tick tick tick
You do Sir.
You were at SS tonight.
Tuesday, I told you I could get over it after a couple beers at SS, but right now, I need to know.
“but much beloved by the “not so swift””
I get it, but you were hoping for a Grammer check. Consider me Kelsey.
i wasn’t at SS tonight.
but if i can focus, i might have something poetic written from my perspective.
/right after i put the smackdown on this fruit-fly hovering betwixt my screen and wine.
//reincarnate, now!
I’ll miss Boheme’s sunday brunch which was awesome. I can’t imagine their italian food will be any worse than Vivace, maybe the most overrated place in town.
Rule 1: make your own pasta! Otherwise just sell me the sauce and I’ll cook it myself at home.
@94: Newsflash, Joe, we found out it’s not going to be italian. You know which spot has awesome pasta and pizza? Il Cane Pazzo….
Yes!
The baked papardelle with bolognese is awesome!
Butternut squash lasagna. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
97: Shen you butternut squash anything I’m eating. I like my food un-squashed.
anyone else see the thing in the paper today (Cville or UNCUS, not sure which, as i heard it being read) about Rapture NOT actually being for sale? something about 25k gallons of water in the basement on the 5th (thanks, Ma Nature) and “contrary to the rumors, we’re not actually for sale”?
anyone have any more accurate info than the Cville MSM on this one? inquiring minds want to know, for several reasons.