Debi Schaefer News Today

A steady stream of diners entered Harvest, an Oceanfront restaurant, midday on a recent Sunday. One cashier handled dine-in and to-go customers. A worker at the bar hurriedly peeled a banana for a Beach Hangover smoothie. Another zipped through the dining room to drop off a lavender lemonade. He then grabbed a rag and started wiping down another table. Owner Michal Mauch was cooking in the ...

Dine out for breakfast, lunch and dinner during Restaurant Week throughout January and early February in Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth, Smithfield, Williamsburg and Virginia Beach.

Dec. 2—When Frothy Moon Brewhouse opened in the onetime Cookes Greenhouse and Garden Center location on Jamestown Road in October, the brewery and coffeehouse joined a craft beverage landscape in

Virginia is home to 4.9 craft breweries per 100,000 drinking-age adults, putting the commonwealth solidly in the middle of the pack.

While some workers who were sent home or opted not to work during the height of the crisis have returned, there are more jobs available at hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions this season than employees to fill them.

Staff has since begun offering some types of their classic sandwiches, such as turkey and Swiss and baked ham and provolone, made daily and available for sale in a refrigerated display.

Beginning Jan. 16, dozens of restaurants around Hampton Roads will be offering Restaurant Week menus with lower, fixed prices.

You heard correctly. Williamsburg Area Restaurant Association has expanded its Restaurant Week by another week. The initiative now goes through Feb. 7, just in time for Super Bowl Sunday. The annual event, which started Thursday, Jan. 21, encourages local foodies to share their experiences dining with WARA members for the chance of winning a prize. This year, 37 WARA restaurants are participating. Each day, 10 winners are awarded prizes, with the chance to win a chicken dinner, according to WAR...

The annual event, which started last Thursday, Jan. 21, encourages local foodies to share their experiences with WARA members with the chance of winning a prize. Debi Schaefer, director of WARA, said they weren’t sure the event would happen this year with the pandemic still happening. “Would we be seen as irresponsible if we promoted it during a pandemic?” Schaefer said. At the same time, local businesses have also been suffering because of the pandemic. So WARA decided to go ahead with ...