Whenever you are hosting an event or party, the first rule is not to run out of food. Unfortunately, the owners of L'Avventura Restaurant forget this rule every once in awhile.
When a small businessman decides where to open a new establishment, he scopes out the area to make sure there's room for him in the market.
All right, we're not saying that spending an evening at Palladio Restaurant at Barboursville Vineyards is going to be cheap.
P rior to our dinner Monday night, "Sweetbones" was merely a term of endearment we reserved for one another.
Dining at Monsoon is not as dangerous as the name may suggest, but the restaurant certainly provides a bit of excitement and the menu unleashes a storm of spice.
Over near the 900 block of Preston Avenue, the area has recently turned into fertile ground for new restaurants and food stores.
It would be difficult to imagine an Italian restaurant with a better atmosphere than Vivace. Twinkling white holiday lights, a cozy outdoor patio with an ivy trellis overhead and walls inside covered with sulking photographs of Sophia Loren and large oil paintings of Italian seascapes.
G o ahead. Just try to find a place to eat in Charlottesville on a Monday night. We dare you. Local restaurants close down more often than the ITC server at the start of each week, which we disgustedly learned in our failed attempts to dine at Immigrant Soul, Moondance Cafe, Escafe, Monsoon and Tokyo Rose and thought better of daring CJ's Bomb Shelter and El Girasol.
Nestled in a romantic Ruckersville shopping center, beyond the Bamboo House, between an antique store and a veterinary clinic, you will find Jody.
Copacabana promises to bring Carnevale to Charlottesville. The attempt is admirable, but perhaps falls just short of its mark. It is difficult to create an atmosphere that will transcend standard shopping center surroundings, but the interior of Copacabana looks oddly more like a Chinese restaurant than a Brazilian one.
