Some Southbank Shout-outs From a Foodie
Richmond.com has a new column 5 Questions with a Foodie. Two weeks ago it featured Jason Guard of Carmelized Opinions and our brother blog Byrd Park. This week it was Kendra Bailey Morris and she gave a plug for some restaurants that are very familiar (or should be) to H&H readers.
If you could pick the best components of a few Richmond restaurants to create one super fabulous restaurant, what would they be?
I’d take the laid-back, cozy, humble food scene that’s found in so many Richmond Fan joints and watering holes such as Joe’s Inn, Sidewalk Café and Davis and Main. Add in the wine list and little-bite apps from Secco (specifically the octopus); throw in some slaw-topped Benny’s BBQ; the Gruyere-topped burger and frites from Can Can; Ware Neck oysters on the half shell from The Boathouse (or Lemaire); roasted chicken (along with that mystery yellow sauce) from Chicken Fiesta; all the Belgian beers on tap and the grilled quail at Mekong; the sausage pizza from Mary Angela’s; the Peking duck from Mandarin Palace; the broccoletti and lamb shank from Mamma Zu’s; and one of Luke’s blue cheese martinis from the bar at Fleming’s. Oh yeah, add in the open kitchen from Millie’s along with, basically, every dessert they make. This isn’t too much to ask, no?
The nice thing is that we could all make a list, and each would be different. I’d have Q’s barbecue, Coppola’s Industrial sub, anything from Secco or Mezzanine, etc. Nice post.