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Written by Laura Apelt
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
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The first time I heard the name “The Painted Lady” (about
five years ago, I guess) I thought it was a tattoo parlor. I kid you not. Since
then I, and the rest of Hampton Roads, have obviously learned that it’s a lovely
English tearoom. It has received tons of awards and reviews already, but
from what I can tell, everyone’s always talking about their dinners. Well gosh
darn it, I’m gonna talk about their lunch. And their tea.
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Written by PJ Freebourn
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Thursday, 29 March 2007 |
There is a danger in telling someone how good a restaurant is: unfulfilled high expectations. I can not count the number of times where someone told me that I had to go to some place because it was amazing, but when I tried it, I found it was just average. Many people that told me to go check out the new little restaurant in Hilton Village (Newport News). With the high expectations I had for Create Bistro, it had no chance. However, against all odds, this little restaurant met and exceeded all of those expectations.
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Written by Laura Apelt
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
 Well, maybe not quite as low as a six, but certainly not
much higher than seven. All in all, Six, the new tapas place in Hampton, was
just kind of… eh.
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Written by The Mystery Shopper
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Saturday, 02 September 2006 |
 Now I have to admit that I am not a big Jimmy Buffet fan. I mean, I can appreciate, and sing, most of his songs. The man is a legend and his music comprises some of the most memorable tunes written in recent history (not ancient history: I am sure the Roman Empire had some great pop hits). But I am originally from Florida, where you can’t throw a seagull in any direction without hitting a Jimmy Buffet fan (much like you can't throw a goose in Busch Gardens without hitting a model on a rollercoaster. Boy, did I get in trouble for that one).
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Written by Mike Diana
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
 Stand on just about any street corner in your Tidewater town with a wok...rock in your hand. Now close your eyes, spin three times and throw the stone. I will bet your rock rolled somewhere near a new American institution...The Chinese Buffet! Hampton's latest addition to the waist-expanding plethora of oriental feeding troughs is Wok and Roll Chinese Buffet in Todd Center.
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Written by Laura Apelt
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Wednesday, 26 July 2006 |
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 There’s a new burrito place up on Jefferson Avenue. You know that great big fancy shopping center they put in not long ago, across from Olive Garden and Red Lobster? Yeah, that one with Ross, and TJ Maxx and Kohl’s. Well, Jefferson Commons includes quite a few restaurants in amidst the stores. One of them is Moe’s Southwest Grill.
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Written by Robert Hodge
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
 The Tapas Lounge is one of the trendy food venues in Port Warwick. A small establishment that could be categorized in a number of ways. It is a restaurant, but it is also a nightclub, and a bar, and a live music venue, and an eclectic space, to be sure. In the words of owner Rebecca Overby, it is an "ethnic fusion tapas bar and restaurant."
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Written by The Mystery Shopper
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Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
 "Do we do dinner, movie, or both?"
"Both you say? So which do we do first?"
Now the traditionalist say that dinner must come before the movie. Maybe this thought process comes from a time before popcorn, coke, and those heavenly chocolate thingies with the tiny white balls of sugar on them, derived from the fear of 2 hours of cinematic starvation; or is it simply that these traditionalists don’t want to ruin there dinner with all of those tasty comestibles. Whatever the reason, more forward thinking revolutionaries have said that waiting until after the movie to have dinner can give you something to talk about when those uncomfortable quiet dining moments rear their ugly heads. But I, The Mystery Shopper, have come across a new solution to this age old dilemma.
Drumroll please.
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