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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
The Golden Pineapple goes to Shamin Hotels' vice president of operations. Bennett-Parker carried the food-to-beverage ratio rewrite as a delegate, then won a Senate seat mid-session. The rest of the 26 awards are named September 15.
VHN Staff · · Richmond
VRLTA's 2026 Ordinary Awards added a category for newly opened restaurants. The nominees span Hopewell to Tysons, and the list says something about where Virginia's growth is.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
The session is usually summarized as the food-to-beverage rewrite plus a list of defeats. Against the legislature's own bill file, several of those defeats are attached to the wrong bill numbers, and one subject widely reported as dead became law on a different bill.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
