We had the pleasure of attending Taste This at Alumni Hall yesterday evening.  Most of Charlottesville’s finest restaurants showed up to strut their stuff, serve small dishes and give us a really good opportunity to choose some of the best food in the area.  While cooking under Alumni Hall conditions meant limited kitchens, eating while standing and, overall, madness; the event was nonetheless a success.   We pick our favorite dishes from the event and have a slideshow (it’s all after the break).

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YOU WILL WANT TO COME HERE, TO THE LANDMARK YOU WILL LIKE IT, CHARLOTTESVILLE

I’m not making this up. In a recent interview with NBC 29 about the up and coming boutique hotel named “The Landmark,” Developer Lee Danielson told NBC 29 the following things:

You’ll see a friend and say I’ll meet you at the landmark. It will be a landmark for Charlottesville…[and] Charlottesville is about community and our hotel and the boutique concept is about the community. So when you walk in there it’s going to be a meeting place that you want to come to.

Am I being forced to like the hotel?  Is Lee a hypnotist.  I think so.
Now count slowly back from 50..5…4..3..2..1. Nice, now imagine you are in a special place.  You must  in the hotel. You will go to The Landmark and enjoy it.  You will tell your friends that you want to love it.  You will love it.. or else you will feel.. pain.

Ok, it sounds a little over the top and like they got ahead of themselves on how cool this spot is going to be.  We’ll find out in July 2009.

I’m looking forward to the rooftop deck; nothing like drinking martinis on a rooftop deck.  Did you hear that, developers? 

[via NBC 29]

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