We just got more secrets from another birdie which totally contradicted our prior set of rumors/news on OXO and Boheme. Who knows if they are true or not, but they come from a very reliable source. So, what is going on at OXO and Boheme?! Details after the break…
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Here is the answer to your weekend homework:
Tomorrow (Tuesday) night Taste This! will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at UVA Alumni Hall. Tickets are $35.00 in advance and you can get them at Greenberry’s, Market Street Wine Shop, or www.musictoday.com. If you get them at the door tomorrow night they are $40.00. 100% of ticket proceeds go to the Salvation Army Food Pantry.
This is just another version of A Taste of Charlottesville. It will have a ton of restaurants and more food and drinks than a night out at the bar. It sounds like fun. (Click the flyer to get more details)
Some of the local businesses coming are:
Market Street Wine Shop, Sticks, Cassis, Bonefish Grill, Wild Greens, Zydeco, Gearharts Chocolates, Blue Light, West Main, TEN, Maya, Shebeen, and more!
What else do you have to do on a Tuesday night? Yes, South Street will still be there when you finish devouring snacks and drinks from the gaggle of restaurants attending.
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It is a rare occasion that a dish in cville almost succeeds in bringing me “back” to a country I have visited, and surprisingly I can thank Mono Loco this month for making it happen. Not too hungry the other night, but accompanying a friend of mine for dinner, I decided on trying the grilled corn appetizer, a new item (at least since the last time we let crazy monkeys cook for us) on the Mono Loco menu.
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Hello Restaurant Owners,
We have received a warning from fellow restaurant operators that there is a scam artist going around Charlottesville trying to extort money from restaurant owners.
His operation is simple: he shows up at a restaurant and claims that he found something in his food, got sick or was harmed by food poisoning. He tells a story about the product, cost and time and asks for money. He is lying.
To our knowledge, he’s hit Shebeen, Revolution Soup (both locations), Cafe Cubano, Bizou, Escafe and Christain’s. If anyone can confirm these locations, that would be great.
He was described as a 35 to 45 tall skinny African-American wearing rose colored glasses. He also rides a bike around.
Let us know if you snap a pictures! Tell him you are doing it, so you can tell your waitstaff to treat him extra-special next time he comes in. Let us know if you have more details.
Thanks,
cVillains & The Birdies Who Let Us Know!
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On May 17th and 18th, this Friday and Saturday, Charlottesville will face The University of Virginia Graduation Weekend 2008. If you haven’t noticed, zombie week is really just calm before all hell breaks loose. In fact, graduation weekend is such a hellish time, that UVA even has an office devoted to it called (cue deep scary voice) “The Office of Major Events.” I’m not kidding, check out the website. I heard they wanted to name it Office for Hell on Earth, but that offended the religious right.
Oh and if you want to graduate virtually, you can even watch a live internet broadcast run by the Office of Major Events.
So despite this impending nightmare, Charlottesville residents, future worker bees and their relieved parents all storm Charlottesville like it’s June 6th, 1944, only this time it’s May 17th, 2008 and we’re going to call it G-Day. Why do they do it? Who knows, but maybe we can help you out a little…
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[written by Smiley]
Okay, it’s not downtown, it’s not a one-word name, and it doesn’t serve artfully contrived, brazenly overpriced alcoholic concoctions (in fact, it doesn’t even serve alcohol), so why bother with the University Grille on Ivy Road? Two words, my imaginary internet friends: Greek Salad.
Make that three words: Small Greek Salad.
Umm, scratch that, make it four words, a consonant, and a forward slash: Small Greek Salad w/Chicken.
I am always hesitant to recommend anything, due to unfortunate outcomes from previous recommendations, like the time I sent my friend with a toothache to my trusted dentist, and my dentist gave him a root canal. On the wrong tooth. However, having now eaten upwards of 15 U-Grille Greek salads, I am fairly confident in telling you that it’s a good bet. (The salad that is, not my dentist.)
The foundation of this masterpiece is a bed of crisp iceberg lettuce. Layered on top of that is a copious amount of feta cheese, ripe kalamata olives (with pits, so watch out for your pearly whites), cucumbers, onions, tomatoes, and juicy pepperoncini. Atop that mound of cool mother-earth goodness are strips of warm, grilled, seasoned chicken breast. And not just two strips. I’m talking the entire salad is covered in chicken.
Overkill with the chicken? Maybe. If you’re a sissy vegan. »Read More
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My wife and I were looking for a good place to get a sandwich on Saturday morning on our drive out to Lowe’s. We thought that we’d stop at C’ville Coffee. On the way there, we both simultaneously realized that our hangovers weren’t ready to sacrifice the fountain soda. Seriously, that was the deal breaker. So we kept driving. We ended up at the New Deli, a place we’d both been to separately, and sworn to its goodness.
I’ll admit, I’ve been there before and had not so impressive results. A Turkey Reuben I ordered one time came with very little meat, and lacked the slaw I had requested. But I could see the potential and went back. This time, I ordered a steak and cheese and the wife ordered a hot Italian. We spent the few minutes at a booth waiting for our sandwiches quizzing each other on the questions offered in the “Coffee News”.
The sandwiches arrived faster than we expected. Both were very tastey. My steak and cheese was great, Philly Style. The bread had soaked up a little of the leftover grease, but never fell apart. It had a good amount of mayo on it, but not the “Id of Jared” amount as parlie described. I was glad I upgraded from chips to the fries, which were not overcooked, lightly crunchy, and not-too-greasy and lightly peppered. Needless to say, we both ate the whole things, which was actually quite a task. I even tried to sucker my wife out of her pickle by telling her that mine was terrible. She didn’t bite. (all innuendos intended).
Anyway, I recommend this place if you are looking for a good change of pace to the chain subs around town. It’s not quite the New York style deli I had once hoped it be, but I’ll got there over subway or Quizno’s any day. And we even got our fountain sodas refilled in “to go” cups, when we left. On our way out, I inquired about how long it had been there. “Since 1984″ I was told. I don’t think much has changed since then, and I hope it doesn’t.
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The Hook got invited to the space above Escafe. What did they find? They confirmed our rumor from January about it being a high end steak and whiskey joint. It’s going to be called “The Upstairs.”
What a stupid name... anyway, I’m pretty psyched about a real steakhouse in the area, even if they can’t think of something more creative.
My suggestions for names:
Highlights from The Hook article:
[Mark Brown’s] also putting in a brand new kitchen, complete with a top-of-the-line char-broiler he says is a real “kicker,” and some kind of fancy machine that cooks delicacies like fois gras. “You can hard boil an egg so the center is like jelly,” he says.
Brown says he imagines an upscale but casual bar scene, serving up high-end cognacs, scotches, and tequilas (and wine, of course), and a restaurant serving up prime USDA steaks and seafood straight from the briny deep.
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So the C&O crowd made for standing-room-only with a live band and an older crowd, while the young ‘uns at South Street mustered a few pints with many an empty bar seat? What the eff? I’ve heard tell of South Street’s Tuesday draw. What gives?
Generational war? (Fight! Stop spending our Social Security! We need beer money!)
Post-St. Patrick’s Day lull? (Perhaps, but blaming the Irish is like sooooo 1850.)
Slow night in the ‘ville by my account—minus the C&O; I’ve been hearing good things about the live music there. Keep it up! (And no knock on South Street; I blame lily-livered cVillains.)
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