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May 04, 2025

Blissful Bites & Tasty Flights

May 04, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton
Blissful Bites & Tasty Flights

Theirs is more than a winery and tasting room. It’s also an airy, full-scale restaurant complete with gift shop, event room, and dog-friendly outdoor seating. There’s even a kids’ menu.

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May 04, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton/
Food Finds
Food Finds, Food & Drink
April 03, 2025

Authentic Mexican at Jessy's

April 03, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton
Authentic Mexican at Jessy's

At first Jessy’s clientele was mostly Latino, but soon the restaurant drew a diverse cult following for its lamb barbacoa, savory tacos, and menudo, a tomato-based soup made with beef tripe and feet served with onions, cilantro, and lime.

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April 03, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
March 03, 2025

Hands-On Homemade

March 03, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton
Hands-On Homemade

Visit Hotrodders Cafe, a 13-year old eatery way out yonder in Chesapeake, a place where the home cooking is genuine, the portions generous, and the off-menu offerings a bit quirky at times.

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March 03, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
February 09, 2025

Yorkie's Modern Deli Wows with Flavor

February 09, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton
Yorkie's Modern Deli Wows with Flavor

Yorkie’s hews to a philosophy of utilizing quality, local ingredients. They also offer vegan and gluten-free options, although the kitchen isn’t certified gluten-free.

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February 09, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
January 02, 2025

Select Salads for a Healthy 2025

January 02, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton
Select Salads for a Healthy 2025

To help those of you who share that nagging resolution, here are four great restaurant salads to keep you on course, sated, and not too deprived. 

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January 02, 2025/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
December 03, 2024

Shake your Deli Craving at The Bagel Baker Delicatessen

December 03, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Shake your Deli Craving at The Bagel Baker Delicatessen

But over at Loehmann’s Plaza in Virginia Beach, on hallowed ground where the Route 58 Delicatessen once thrived, a new eatery easily slakes cravings for most things deli.

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December 03, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Virginia Beach, Food & Drink, Food Finds
November 04, 2024

Iconic Cheesesteak Sandwiches

November 04, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Iconic Cheesesteak Sandwiches

Over at Philly Cold Cuts, the award-winning eatery with two locations, it’s the Philly cheesesteaks that reach the restaurant’s goal of “devotional.”

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November 04, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
Food Finds
Food & Drink, Food Finds, Virginia Beach
September 29, 2024

Soul-Soothing Italian Fare

September 29, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Soul-Soothing Italian Fare

Sirena Serious EATalian debuted in 2004 and is located at the end of a strip of shops in Great Neck. The ever-gracious Fabio Rinaldi serves as proprietor and enforcer of the restaurant’s motto: Italy without the airfare.

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September 29, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
September 03, 2024

The Pink Dinghy: A Far-Flung Culinary Adventure

September 03, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
The Pink Dinghy: A Far-Flung Culinary Adventure

At The Pink Dinghy at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, I bypassed the pink picnic tables out front and sat at a small table amid tropical plants, a shelf of cookbooks, and a wall of splashy artwork and scanned the 15-item dinner menu.

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September 03, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
August 02, 2024

Baja-Style Tacos at Bro's

August 02, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Baja-Style Tacos at Bro's

Forget the cheese and beans and glop that oozes out of Tex-Mex tacos. At Bro’s, they specialize in the Baja style, a fresher, lighter version with roots in the Baja peninsula of California and Mexico.

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August 02, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink
July 04, 2024

Big Chicken Flavor and a Side of Heat

July 04, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Big Chicken Flavor and a Side of Heat

Over at Nando’s PERi-PERi Chicken, smiling wait staff hustle between tables delivering towering sandwiches, bowls heaped with mashers, rice and peas, and colorful stoneware platters of fiery, spatchcocked chicken.

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July 04, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink, Virginia Beach
June 12, 2024

Milton’s Bay Café: Café Fare with a Greek Flair

June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Milton’s Bay Café: Café Fare with a Greek Flair

Huddled at the door with a half-dozen others, we bore witness to nimble servers ferrying a parade of dishes: tall, fruited Belgian waffles crowned with swirls of whipped cream, half-moon omelets covering half the plate, bubbly mimosas, and Bloody Marys, too.

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June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Food Finds, Food & Drink, Virginia Beach
June 12, 2024

Manny’s Burgers: Plenty Big and Flavorful

June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Manny’s Burgers: Plenty Big and Flavorful

Before McDonald’s flipped its first burger, before Hardee’s and Burger King and before KFC there was Manny’s Burgers, a popular, flat-topped, walk-up joint in Norfolk.

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June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
Food Finds
Food Finds, Food & Drink, Norfolk
June 12, 2024

Smokin’ Hot Pizza + Porky Que

June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Smokin’ Hot Pizza + Porky Que

Head over to The Pizza Box in Virginia Beach for a ginormous, New York-style, supersized slice of pizza served smoking hot—a triangle of stretchy, salty cheese atop a smear of tangy tomato sauce built on a thin-ish, golden brown crust with just the right amount of crunch.

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June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
Food Finds
Food Finds, Food & Drink, Virginia Beach
June 12, 2024

Decadent Pie + NC-Style BBQ

June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Decadent Pie + NC-Style BBQ

By day, Player is a paralegal, has been for decades. By night, she is the “Aunt P” of Aunt P’s Butts, her hobby-turned-side-hustle-turned-blossoming business. 

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June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
Food Finds
Food Finds, Food & Drink, portsmouth
June 12, 2024

Judy’s Sichuan Cuisine: Chinese Food with a Cult Following

June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Judy’s Sichuan Cuisine: Chinese Food with a Cult Following

Judy’s has grown to two locations. Her authentic cuisine has developed a cult following locally and was ranked by Yahoo as the No. 1 Chinese restaurant in the state. 

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June 12, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
Food Finds
Food Finds, Food & Drink, Virginia Beach
June 01, 2024

Redhead Bay Cafe: Savory Eats in Creeds

June 01, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton
Redhead Bay Cafe: Savory Eats in Creeds

Destination: Creeds, population 1,400 and home to Redhead Bay Cafe, a remote brunch spot that you’ll have to pass myriad restaurants to get to. 

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June 01, 2024/ Lorraine Eaton/
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Tidewater Family Plus

TF is your go-to guide for all things family and features pages full of news and information to help you raise your children to be the best they can be.

 

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This Month’s Travel:

United States Travel
Paradise Found in Kauai
May 4, 2025
Paradise Found in Kauai
May 4, 2025

When you find yourself in paradise, such tempting thoughts steal in, like a mist that separates you from your senses. Not sure what I mean? Go to Kauai, the oldest of the eight Hawaiian islands, and you’ll find out. Its ancient soul renders a powerful magic that seeps in without your knowing.

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May 4, 2025
 

This Month’s Food Find:

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Blissful Bites & Tasty Flights
Blissful Bites & Tasty Flights

Theirs is more than a winery and tasting room. It’s also an airy, full-scale restaurant complete with gift shop, event room, and dog-friendly outdoor seating. There’s even a kids’ menu.

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