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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Ran across Joe’s Inn Marinara Sauce at Ellwood’s. You can also order a case online if you really like the stuff.

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Richmond.com’s Top 10 Fave ‘Old’ Richmond Restaurants gives props to Strawberry Street Cafe, Sidewalk Cafe, the Village Cafe, and Joe’s Inn.

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eat at joe’s. by Mike Johnson

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Joe’s Inn in the Fan is showing a group show by four friends: Adam Dorland, Ben Hill, Matt Shofner and Brenna Wilson. They created their works specifically for this show at the popular Fan eatery.

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The Richmond community has another, though more limited, recipe collection documenting the history of some well known Fan restaurants. In 2000 Ann Meade Bensenfelder published Signs of Good Taste: recollections & recipes from Richmond’s historic Fan restaurants. Twelve vintage Fan restaurants were profiled: Buddy’s, Chiocca’s, Davis & Main, Helen’s, Joe’s Inn, Julian’s, Robin Inn, Sally Bell’s Kitchen, Sobel’s, Stella’s, Strawberry Street Café, and the Village Café. A brief history, photographs, and selected recipes from each restaurant are included.

VIA RICHMOND COOKS 1898-2010: A sampling of cookbooks in the Library of Virginia collection (Shockoe Examiner 2/14/11)

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To reaffirm our faith in this controversial culinary art, my boyfriend and I sampled slices from two of the city’s most revered pie houses: Joe’s Inn and Garnett’s Cafe, both highly recommended by my ultra-scientific Twitter poll.

At Joe’s Inn, we opted for Peanut Butter Pie with Oreo Crust. Next time you stop in, I suggest you do the same. A fair weather friend of peanut butter, even I loved this one. A smooth and delicate balance of peanut butter and cream evidenced homemade preparation, while Oreo crust and mini chocolate chips sealed the deal with a satisfying crunch and pleasing color contrast to the peanut butter mousse.

Strawberry Apple Pie awaited us at Garnett’s Cafe (pictured). I love their pairing of two common pie fruits, whose combination is rather uncommon. More should try it – the result was fantastic. I find strawberry pies can be overly sweet, particularly in the sweltering summer months. Apples kept the flavor profile a bit mellower, allowing the pie’s buttery, dense crust to shine through. My only unfulfilled wish? To have tried it straight out of the oven. Our room-temp serving was tasty, but there’s no comparison to freshly baked pie, all cool crust and warm, hidden filling.

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