It opened just weeks before the pandemic. This month, The Rustic Spoon celebrated a year in business and last updated 2021-02-23 18:46:02-05 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - "You'll have to drag me out of here kicking and screaming." That's what Ryan Hines says every time News 3 visits The Rustic Spoon...and it's been a lot over the past year. Hines and his two longtime friends, Nick Pogue and Jay Kulas, built the restaurant from the ground up and opened it February 12, 2020 as a brunch spot for the Thoroughgood, Chic's Beach and Ocean Park areas of Virginia Beach. Days earlier, Hines had just celebrated the birth of his second child.