Aug 31, 2009
New Restaurant Balliceux Or Balliceaux Or However You Say And Spell It Getting Great Reviews
August 31, 2009 | 3 Comments
The praise keeps pouring in.
Balliceux, or Balliceaux -which is pronounced Ball-e-chew or Bali-Sue or something like that – is already raking in a number of positive reviews from food critics, just two weeks into its opening.
Ballichieux, the “x” in which may or may not be silent, opened in the former location of the easy-to-spell and [...]
Aug 06, 2009
Shocking wait staff and patrons alike with his unbelievable gall, 18-month-old Cameron Smith had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at LuLu’s – LuLu’s, for Christ’s sake – despite the Shockoe Bottom restaurant’s well-regarded menu of culinary delights.
The brazen toddler, the youngest in a party of five, ate half the sandwich – hastily custom-made by [...]
Aug 04, 2009
Pancake Restaurant Purchases Closed Virginia Rest Stops
August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
Two weeks after closing 18 of the state’s rest stops, the Virginia Department of Transportation today announced that it has sold all but one of the Commonwealth’s now-closed facilities to the Aunt Sarah’s Pancake House chain of breakfast restaurants.
The move is expected to generate much-needed revenue for the state’s transportation needs and ease the discomfort [...]
Jul 29, 2009
Sources: Foreign Man At Tobacco Co. Wants To Buy You A, How You Say, Drink
July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
According to sources familiar with the situation, a man of European descent sitting at the bar of Richmond’s Tobacco Company Restaurant wants to buy you a, how you say, drink.
“Afterward, maybe we could, how you say, go back to my hotel,” the foreign man was overheard saying to you in what appeared to be a French [...]
May 18, 2009
Report: Majority Of Twenty- And Thirtysomething Glassware Stolen From Local Bars
May 18, 2009 | 3 Comments
A report released today by Virginia Commonwealth University presents new evidence that an overwhelming majority of all glassware found in the homes of the city’s twenty- and thirty-something restidents is, in fact, illegally removed from local restaurants, pubs and breweries.
The 149-page report found that nearly 92 percent of residents aged 22 to 38 had “a suspicious number” [...]
Apr 29, 2009
Mayoral Convoy Ambushed En Route To Arby’s
April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A motorcade transporting Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones to the Short Pump Arby’s was attacked by terrorists yesterday, six hours after sources leaked word to Tobacco Avenue of the city official’s roast beef run.
Eight gunmen, believed to have been linked to the devout Chic-fil-A fanaticism movement, were killed in a dramatic shootout in the westbound lanes [...]
Apr 28, 2009
Mayor Thinking Arby’s
April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones is thinking Arby’s for lunch today, sources have confirmed.
The Arby’s run, offhandedly mentioned by Jones at his staff meeting this morning, could fall somewhere between 11:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. today, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The mayoral roast beefing will likely target the Short Pump [...]
Mar 29, 2009
Nick Cavalieri, who has lived in the apartment directly above 3 Monkeys Bar and Grill since November, is getting “more than fed up” with having to continuously tell his neighbors to be quiet, the 30-year-old said today.
“Monday through Sunday, I hear those guys partying pretty much every night,” Cavalieri said. The University of Richmond graduate, [...]






