The Southern Foodways Alliance, in advance of the Summer Symposium that they are holding in Richmond in June, recorded oral histories with a number of Richmond’s women restaurant owners.

Stella Dikos & Katrina Giavos of Stella’s

Martha Crowe Jones & Marcyne Jones – Sally Bell’s Kitchen

Kendra Feather of Ipanema Cafe / Garnett’s Cafe / The Roosevelt / WPA Bakery

Ida MaMusu of Africanne on Main

Argentina Ortega of La Sabrosita Bakery

Tiffany Gellner of The Magpie

Velma Johnson of Mama J’s Kitchen

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http://fanofthefan.com/2013/05/women-work-and-food-in-richmond-virginia/

After the long and wonderful journey of another basketball season, February has come and gone and finally it’s that time of year again: the Garnett’s Cafe VCU senior sandwiches are here!

The #30 (straight-up amazing): cold-sliced chicken breast, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise on ciabatta roll

The #10 (one-of-a-kind): bacon, hard boiled egg, green tomato relish, lettuce, and avocado on toasted wheat

The #34 (crowd favorite): roast beef, cheddar, chow-chow, and sriracha mayo, on toasted rye

The three special sandwiches are available into April for lunch/dinner at Garnett’s Cafe.

Open on Park Avenue since 2009, Garnett’s Cafe hopes to be “a great good place”, a soup and sandwich shop where you just find it comfortable to be. Also, we’ve got really, really good cakes and pies.

PREVIOUSLY:

• 2011: This sandwich is not the Bradford Burgess
• 2011: Rozell, Skeen, and Nixon are now delicious
• 2011: The Joey Rodriguez Sandwich

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http://fanofthefan.com/2013/03/2013-vcu-senior-sandwiches-at-garnetts-cafe/

The nominations for the 2013 Richmond Magazine Elbys were announced yesterday, and like last year, the Fan area is well represented.

A number of Fan-area restaurants have been nominated for the awards. Dale Reitzer of Acacia Mid-town has again been nominated as “Chef of the Year” (along with Tim Bereika of Secco Wine Bar, Peter Chang of Peter Chang China Café, and Lee Gregory of The Roosevelt), and Acacia is also up for “Fine Dining Restaurant”.

Heritage is up for “New Restaurant”, as well as “Cocktail Program”. Avalon’s Jen Mindell is up for “Rising Culinary Star”. Kuba Kuba is in the running for “Neighborhood Restaurant”. Finally, Kendra Feather (Garnett’s, Ipanema Cafe, The Roosevelt, WPA Bakery) has been nominated as “Restaurateur of the Year”.

The Elbys, named for renowned French Chef and Richmonder Paul Elbling, will be given out on Sunday evening, February 10, 2013 at a dinner at the VMFA. Net ticket proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Shalom Farms, Slow Food RVA,
Tricycle Gardens and the VMFA Foundation.

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http://fanofthefan.com/2012/12/fan-area-restaurants-heavily-represented-in-elbys-bids-2/

The monthly RVA News Happy Hour is this Thursday 5-7PM at Garnett’s:

It’s time for another happy hour! Come on out and join us! Meet and greet with some folks around town.

If you’re interested in how any of the community blogs work, or think that you’d like to contribute in some way, or if you just want a great piece of cake, come on out!

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http://fanofthefan.com/2012/12/rva-news-december-happy-hour-is-thursday/

Another fantastic drawing by Sungkyung “Bible” Park.

Have you seen her version of the panorama at Libby Hill?

A quick spin through Richmond Magazine’s Best & Worst 2012 finds a number of Fan-area winners:

• Joe’s Inn wins for “Best Neighborhood Restaurant” and “Best Lowbrow Night Out in the Region” ( & Commercial Taphouse grabs 2nd),
• Buddy’s wins for “Best Place to Seek Shelter During a Hurriquake”,
• Balliceaux wins for “Best Cocktail You Can’t Make at Home”,
• Ipanema Cafe wins for “Best Restaurant for Vegetarians” (and ties Garnett’s Cafe at 3rd for “Best Pies”),
• Acacia Mid-town wins “Best Restaurant Overall”,
• The Fan wins “Neighborhood With the Widest Variety of Architectural Styles”,
• The Fan Kitchen & Garden Tour and Holiday House Tour wins “Best Neighborhood House Tour”, and
• Fan of the Fan gets 3rd for “Best Neighborhood Blog”.

Anybody else seen a copy yet? Are there any local kudos that I missed?

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Garnett’s Cafe, by David Rohrer. Rohrer has a show set for the fall at Church Hill’s Schindler Gallery.

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Interested in meeting the folks behind RVA News and Richmond’s community blogs? We’ll be at Garnett’s Cafe (at Park and Meadow) for a bit of a Happy Hour from 5-6:30PM this evening. Stop by!

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ABOVE: Garnett’s Cafe by Bernard Martin

The first annual Plein Air Richmond, an event presented and hosted by Brazier Gallery to benefit the Richmond Symphony, is in full effect this week. Keep an eye out around town as 47 specially juried plein air painters from across the United States set up easels all over our historic city to create hundreds of paintings.

There will be a Ticketed Collector’s Preview Party and Gala on June 22 at Brazier Gallery (1616 West Main Street). Party-goers will be the first to view the paintings created during this weeks paint out. A Festive Gala with music from the Richmond Symphony will continue across the street at the “Try Me Gallery”. Ticket and painting proceeds benefit the Richmond Symphony. For tickets: richmondsymphony.com OR 804-788-4717, ext. 112.

There will be a public exhibition at Brazier Gallery on Saturday June 23 and Sunday June 24. Among other related activities will be “Fast and Fresh” on Monument Avenue on Saturday: from 9AM-noon juried and non-juried artists will start and complete paintings on Monument Avenue. These paintings will be available for purchase off the easels (with proceeds benefiting the Symphony).

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Garnett’s Cafe is partnering with with Mom Chat to offer up special boxed lunches for a Mother’s Day picnic in Meadow Park. Order by email to info@garnettscafe.com before NOON on Saturday, May 12 to get in on this.

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A Richmond Magazine look at Date Night Deals at restaurants around the city has the details on specials from local favorites Avenue 805, Rowland Fine Dining, Fresca on Addison, Nile Ethiopian, Garnett’s, and Cous Cous:

Taking your sweetheart out to a restaurant doesn’t have to mean blowing your weekly food budget. Here are a few dining options that won’t put you in the red.

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Following last year’s sandwiches in honor of the 4 graduating VCU Rams Joey Rodriguez, Brandon Rozell, Jamie Skeen, and Ed Nixon, Garnett’s Cafe has unleashed a new sandwich inspired by Bradford Burgess:

In honor of one of our all time favorite VCU Rams players. We present the #20: bacon, ham, lettuce, tomato, benedictine spread and tiger sauce on a ciabatta roll! Go RAMS GO!!

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Garnett’s, Kuba Kuba, and Lamplighter are the area’s representatives among the 9 contestants in richmond.com’s contest to see who has the city’s best sandwich.

We think Richmond does sandwiches the way New York does pizza, the way Philadelphia does cheesesteaks, the way Wisconsin does…well, cheese. What better way to open up the Besties Awards 2012 than by finding out who has the very best sandwich in town?

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Joining the Joey Rodriguez, Garnett’s has unveiled sandwiches for all 4 seniors on the Final Found-bound VCU men’s basketball team: the Brandon Rozell, the Jamie Skeen, and the Ed Nixon.

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