🍕 OT: Charlottesville Food Scene

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Fellini’s

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RIP :frowning:

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I feel sorry for the young bucks who never got to experience the UD (University Diner). It was a classic college experience with Elwood Breedan manning the grill and Ethyl taking orders and taking no shit.

It was sublime. One eyed bacon cheeseburger, an order of pipin hots and the true Grillswith for desert.

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I can’t give this post enough props. The absolute,all time go to spot at 1:30 am. ‘“I want onions with my grillswith!”

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Elwood told me once he has 32 Buds in one afternoon. Believe me, if you saw him, you’d believe him.

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Anyone have recommendations for very young kid friendly restaurants on the mall? Both the set up (space and high chairs) and type of food.

Good beer menu an extra bonus.

Trying to eat a decent meal in a good setting with a 1 and 3 year old. Potentially asking too much. Let me know if you have a good ideas.

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If sticking to the mall, Citizen Burger Bar. If during the day for lunch, the Whiskey Jar or the Nook (not great beer list at the latter).

Edit: Relatively close to the mall is Three Knotch’d. Plenty of open space and seen a lot of young kids there. And it’s got a great beer menu as a brewery. Food is pretty good.

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I’m not sure about high chair setup, but you can order some of The Bebedero’s menu at the Rockfish Brewing location that’s on the mall; they are next door to each other, but it’s probably more relaxed at the brewery.

Chickadee is close to the mall and its menu probably adapts to kids decently well.

I second Three Notch’d for the beer, food has been only just OK in my experience. Brazos Tacos right near it is very kid friendly.

If you can manage a quick drive down Preston Ave, Kardinal Hall is very kid-friendly and has good beer and food. Just a little further down is the Dairy Market, which has Starr Hill Brewery and a food hall setup (including Moo Thru ice cream for the kiddos).

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WAIT MOO THRU HAS A CVILLE LOCATION NOW?

The Jacob Wilkins official visit has me thinking: is Ralph Sampson’s restaurant our new closing place for recruits?

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Yeah, in the Dairy Market. Just as good as the original location.

Re: Sampson’s restaurant: Probably? It’s in the same place where the old closing location was (Zinburger), so it would be appropriate. It’s a safe pick: high school kids love burgers, I guess. Though the first recruit who goes “the staff suggested burgers and fries, but I really wanted to try the quail egg banchan at Umma’s” will get my undying loyalty.

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The Sake Brewery that’s sort of underneath Three Notch’d has really good ramen. They’ve also got a mushroom gyoza app that is freaking delicious.

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Sampson’s should be the closing place, but honestly its only fine, at best.

The Dairy Market Moo Through is great, though the whole place is solid.

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Ralph’s is a tragic restaurant. Cool space. Great story potential. But good lord I’m 0-4 on meals there. Actually walked out one time after waiting 52 minutes for a steak in a half full restaurant.

We CANNOT take recruits there.

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Had a similar experience. Got there 2 hours before one of the women’s games last year, thinking it would be plenty of time. Ended up tracking our waiter down 30 mins before tipoff for the check, after 1 of our 4 entrees never did get delivered.

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Atleast you didnt order the meatloaf like someone did…

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I’ve eaten there three times. Brunch was overpriced but ok, had dinner with daughter and her friend and it was again ok. The third time was just there with daughter during Final Four and, heh, I’d forgotten about this. We had dinner, I got a beer, and my daughter ordered a lemonade to drink, I think.

The food was actually fairly good that time and my beer was fine. But my daughter’s drink was… sort of hard to describe. When you say “lemonade”, sure, different places do it differently, but generally the term calls to mind a fairly specific set of characteristics. Like, there’s going to be some variability, but you have a pretty decent idea of what you’re going to get, right? At least, broadly speaking?

Her lemonade was not like that.

It was… syrupy. And not in the sense that it was sweet and thick for a beverage, I mean more like the consistency of maple syrup. It was totally clear and colorless, and very slightly sweet without the faintest hint of flavor. And I mean none, let alone anything citrus-y. It didn’t actually taste bad, though the texture was really off-putting.

It was like someone slightly sweetened water with the most flavorless sweetener you can think of, thickened it into syrup, poured it into a glass with ice and served it. It also, bizarrely, slowly poured up out of her straw and onto the table.

After a few minutes of fascination we called the waiter over and said “What the f**k is this?” Instead of answering, they apologized, took it away and brought her more water. They didn’t take it off the bill at first but did after I complained. I still have no idea what it was.

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Hahahahah. Man that is some real trauma right there. I get it

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Similar experiences at Ralph’s. Such a shame. I wanted it to be good. Too many better options.

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Sounds like a great closing gig! “If you come to UVA and succeed, you too can have a restaurant in your name that can serve average or mediocre food, but people will keep coming and you’ll keep making money because you’re a UVA great”…

Honestly sounds like some pretty great ROI to me. Ralph hasn’t played a game for UVA in 40 years (crazy to think about) and restaurant gets a ton of love for name recognition!

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