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Just a month after opening in February 2020, The Rustic Spoon saw sales plummet due to COVID-19. After a long road back, the Virginia Beach restaurant says it's opening a second location.
Just a month after opening in February 2020, The Rustic Spoon saw sales plummet due to COVID-19. After a long road back, the Virginia Beach restaurant says it's opening a second location.
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 celebrate...