faculty favorites
Favorite Beer Spot: Beer Run, 156 Carlton Rd., 984-2337. Good Food as well. Casual and Lively. Fourteen beers on tap. Features Beer and Wine tastings (Wed-beer, Fri-wine)
.
Favorite Dessert: Baker's Palette (also serves breakfast and lunch), 126 Garrett St, 295-3009
Favorite Video/DVD store: Sneak Reviews, 2244 Ivy Road, 979-4420.
Has the most classic and foreign film choices, for the discriminating film buff.
Favorite Mediterranean Bakery: Balkan Bakery, 218 W. Water St., 293-7421. Delicious home-made sweet and savory dishes.
Favorite Coffee: Java Java, 2214 Ivy Road, 220-0534 (also on the Downtown Mall)
La Taza (in Belmont), 407 Monticello Road, 296-8292
Favorite Stationery: Rock, Paper, Scissors 110 2nd St NE, 979-6366 (www.thinkrockpaperscissors.com)
Favorite Italian: Tavola, 826 Hinton Avenue
Favorite Gelato: Milano, Main Street Market, 220-4302
Favorite Meat Source: The Organic Butcher, Main Street Market, 244-7400
Favorite Seafood Source: Main Street Seafood, Main Street Market, 296-0969
Restaurants come and go. To get the latest on Charlottesville
restaurants, see the list in the back of
C-Ville Weekly, (Dining
website) or check out Charlottesville-Dining.com,
which offers surveys and rankings of local restaurants.
"No, it's not jeans we're talking about here.
It's Jarman's Gap, the newly opened eatery that's giving a little
friendly competition to what was formerly Crozet's sole culinary claim
to fame, Crozet Pizza.
The Gap's trio of owners, Matt Turner, Geoff Robinson, and Kim Cruser, boast
a Charlottesville restaurant pedigree; the three have put in time at Mono Loco,
Oxo, Continental Divide, Southern Culture, and C&O, to name just a few.
Turner, the Gap's executive chef, also spent several years pleasing palates
as the executive chef at Millie's Diner, a nationally acclaimed restaurant
in Richmond.‘International, rustic and unpretentious' is how Turner describes it, giving
as an example half a duck cooked two ways: confit of leg and rare breast, with
zinfandel- and rosemary-glazed figs. Yum!"
—"Restaurantarama,"
C-Ville Weekly
