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  1. I finally had the Hellboy a few weeks ago and it is ridiculously delicious. I've gone to Smoked a couple times now and it is really good. I also like the mustard sauce (which is my preferred style) but the other ones (save east Carolina vinegar style, which I hate in all forms) are great too. The fried chicken is also incredible and I have read that the burger is the best thing on the menu. If only they would serve it on their rooftop (they have a separate menu there) (https://smokedkt.com/the-rooftop/) which has an unbelievable view. On sides, the mac and cheese is great but I didn't care for the baked beans, probably a personal preference (had sausage in it and was just different than any other beans I've had).
  2. Certainly don't mean to question you on your post--but is it really the case that $10.95 for a deli sandwich with chips is a reasonable price downtown nowadays? Genuinely interested in the answer--I have been gone from the DC area for almost 5 years, so I have no idea how food/drink prices have evolved in that time. What does a beer cost at a non-dive, non-fancy bar nowadays? When I left I think the normal price for a pitcher of Miller Lite at Ragtime in Courthouse (you can tell what a connoisseur I am) was $13, and last week I saw on their Facebook page that a $16 pitcher was a happy hour special. Has the inflation been that severe elsewhere?
  3. Only been 11 years or so since the last post in this thread. Anyone have any recs in Beverly Hills? Staying at the Beverly Hilton for a wedding in October with the wife. Will not have a car, but can uber around. Looking for somewhere fun and not too fancy, Italian or American (or Californian) cuisine. Thanks
  4. You guys are too kind! (And I'm a dude.) Glad to hear you had a good visit to our little town. I need to get back to Lampo to try that Hellboy...
  5. Friday, the 19th, begins UVA move-in weekend, which has historically been a godawful traffic day in town but has been mitigated the past few years since they have split the dorm openings into two days. As I'm sure many folks here are, I'm happy to make suggestions, but it would be helpful to know what type of places you are looking for. Off the top of my head, I'd recommend Beer Run (craft beer, great black bean nachos), The Shebeen (south african pub), The Virginian (classic bar on the UVA corner, just bar food but amazing mac and cheese), Lampo (neaopolitan pizza, in a tiny place so there is usually an awful wait, get there at 11am), South Street Brewery (good local beer), and, of course, Bodo's bagels (heaven on earth).
  6. Anything in Downtown Montreal worth seeking out? I know about Schwarz's, but other non-fine dining places? Staying at the W this weekend for a bachelor party. Thanks in advance...
  7. I read this and thought it couldn't possibly be right, but apparently they use "dynamic pricing" for these things. Completely agree with you, that's ridiculous. "In-Flight Wi-Fi Prices Jump As Demand Surges" by Brian X. Chen on nytimes.com
  8. Luke Bryan played John Paul Jones Arena that Saturday night. I am not surprised that all the hotels within walking distance of the Corner were sold out/exorbitantly priced.
  9. Could be an off day--the beans really are good, despite appearances, but the best side are the hush puppies. It's a beautiful drive and I'd recommend going back if you are passing through 64 or 29 and have a hankering for barbecue.
  10. More likely that you are a proper critic and that I don't know what I am talking about.
  11. I took your advice and got to Lampo at around 11:05am on Saturday. Man, I knew it was a small place, but had no idea it was this small--there might be 5-6 tables and a bar. But we got a table no sweat, though the restaurant was full at 11:30. We shared the Polpettine Al Forno ($6) to start, and good God, I wish we had just sat there all day eating as many meatballs as we could. Every element of the plate--the sauce, cheese, and meatballs themselves--was delicious. So much so that I wish we'd continued with a Polpettine panini or Abruzzo pizza. Went with the Margherita D.O.C. ($15) and were a bit disappointed. That is not to say that this is not a fine Neapolitan pizza, but rather that authenticity probably didn't mix with our palates that day. The flavors from the San Marzano were very light, and the olive oil made things a bit wetter than I'd prefer. The crust, while nicely leopard spotted, was a bit doughy, which (for all I know) could be part of the D.O.C. process as well. More enlightened readers can set me straight--but I saw pizzas come out after ours that were a little more done and looked like the crust had a little more bite. I think we would have been happier with the Hellboy special, which looked great, or the aforementioned Abruzzo. Zeppole ($7) for dessert were delightfully light doughnut balls covered in cinnamon sugar. I especially liked that there seemed to be more cinnamon than sugar as they were flavorful without being too sweet. Service was pleasant and unassuming. We'll be back, if for nothing else than those damned meatballs...
  12. Anyone on this board have a recommendation for what time of day to go when it won't be so crazy? I have a birthday coming up and want to go, but have a newborn and probably don't want to spend a precious in-laws babysitting hour standing outside a restaurant in the cold...thanks!
  13. I have not been there, but would very much like to hear about your experience if you go. I am not a fancy restaurant guy but liked Public Oyster House when my wife and I went there last year. I'm not sure when the last time I went to a "new" Cville restaurant was. I really want to try Lampo, but from what I hear it's always super packed.
  14. I am new to grilling/smoking, but my experience went something like this: "Do you have any flank or skirt steak? I want to make fajitas." "All out of those, but we have a nice bavette that would work well for that purpose. It's $23.99 a pound." I googled it when I got home, feeling swindled. 24 bucks a pound for flap meat?
  15. JM Stock is insanely expensive. Mind bogglingly expensive. And I don't get why they have that huge space when most of it is just empty floor.
  16. No problem! I've only been to Zinburger of those 3 but can help recommend/raise red flags if you have other ideas. I thought Zinburger was so-so (for a beef burger, no veggie burgers for me) but that was mainly the prices and fries...
  17. This link is about 2 years old, so check to see if a particular place still exists (or I can tell you), but here's a start: http://iyfoods.com/blog/2013/7/12/vegan-guide-to-charlottesville
  18. It's a little weird how the cross-pollination has worked out over the last couple of years--Pasture did not work out at all in Cville, but it seems like Bella's, Littlejohn's and Continental Divide are doing well in RIC. I guess Yearbook Taco is an offshoot of Don't Look Back in Carytown. Do you know of any other RIC-transplanted restaurants that have come (or are coming) to the 434?
  19. Foiled by the French 1 again! I should have known better because I cross my 7s when writing--a by product of taking French from Kindergarten on. Bien sí»r, je ne me souviens pas de tout í§a...
  20. Is that $76 for the seafood risotto? If so, that's got to be the highest entree price I've ever seen in this town.
  21. I'd post, and will try to do so in here, but I would say that my initial thought was to have a completely separate board rather than pair in with everything that you've built here. Pairing with Richmond just doesn't make sense to me--very, very different towns with different sensibilities. There are only about 400 restaurants in Charlottesville in total, including each branch of every Subway and McDonalds and everything else, so really only, say, a hundred post-worthy places. I'd like to get a thread up for literally each one of them, with reviews, but that sounds a bit ambitious.
  22. Seems like we have a number of Charlottesvillians on here. Maybe we could set up a sister board. I pretty much exclusively go to Organic Butcher for steak, though I did get a pork shoulder at Harris Teeter last year for a 12-hour smoke. Costco is opening this summer (allegedly) and should be a good source of quality meat. But, I'm a plebeian and don't know how to cook any of the fancy stuff so I think a place like JM Stock is lost on me.
  23. The canneles de bordeaux pictured in the article are from MarieBette, a new bakery and cafe in the Rose Hill neighborhood. There are way too many good breakfast/lunch options in my little town (and it's hard to not eat Bodo's Bagels every single day) but I can't recommend the croissants and pain au chocolat, along with those canneles, enough. I wish there was a site like this one for Charlottesville, but a good consolation is the wonderful blog The Charlottesville 29 (http://charlottesville29.com/). There you'll find all the happenings of note. I'm most excited about the redevelopment of an old (c. 1939) Coca-Cola bottling plant into a complex with a beer garden run by the best bottle shop/beer bar in town and a butcher shop, cheese counter and restaurant run by Timbercreek Farm. I am not a huge fan of JM Stock and Provisions (maybe I'm just not Brooklyn enough to get why you'd pay $22.99 a pound for flap meat--excuse me, bavette) but Wayside, Albemarle Baking Company and Citizen Burger are solid choices. I need to get to Lampo to see if it approaches Pupatella-level quality.
  24. Sorry to bump my own post, but anyone been in the last few years?
  25. So I'm responding to my message from 5 years ago as my wife and I will be returning to Caneel Bay for our 5 year anniversary in a couple of months. Looks like very little traffic about St. John since 2010, but am curious if anyone has been there in the past couple of years and has any recommendations. We fortunately have a little more cash left over after working/saving for 5 years, though we are still not fine dining people... We plan to have dinner at Zozo's at Caneel Bay and a couple of places we loved from our first trip (the Banana Deck and possibly the Lime Inn) but a little Internet searching shows me that there's been a good amount of turnover in the Cruz Bay restaurants in 5 years. Anyone been lately?
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