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The room itself: menus and pricing, service models, staffing, and the economics of running a restaurant in the Commonwealth.
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Ada's on the River, The Liberty Trust, Southern Revere Cellars, Belmont Farm Distillery and Wolf Gap Vineyard lead the 2026 Ordinary Awards winners, named Tuesday night in Short Pump.
VHN Staff · · Richmond
The 2018 Restaurateur of the Year and 2020 VRLTA chairman announced his retirement on August 31. He spent the last years of his tenure making the industry's case in public, on the record, under his own name, and he says he intends to keep doing it.
VHN Staff · · Northern Virginia
Since July 1 the expanded polystyrene ban reaches every food vendor, not just 20-location chains. Styrofoam is a DuPont trademark for building insulation and has never been used for a food container, so a supplier can truthfully say that a banned cup is not Styrofoam.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
Since July 2025 every supplier advertising a price must show a total including mandatory fees. Restaurants and hotels get a safe harbor: disclose the percentage of any automatic gratuity. The federal junk fee rule covers hotels too, and does not cover restaurants at all.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
The 50-year-old Great Falls institution comes under Warren Thompson's stewardship this month. Chef Jacques Haeringer stays, the menu stays, and coverage is notably vague about what kind of transaction this actually is.
VHN Staff · · Northern Virginia
Richmond lost Assante's, Pig & Brew, Charlotte's and the Carytown Daily inside a week. The quieter story is Ellwood Thompson's falling behind on payments to local suppliers.
VHN Staff · · Richmond
Virginia's local meals tax is climbing, and the referendum that used to stand in a county's way has been gone since 2020. In Roanoke, unpaid meals tax has produced criminal charges against restaurant owners.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
