Best of the Best: The Top 10 restaurants in Hampton Roads
For the first time in the three years that Hampton Roads Magazine has selected the 50 best restaurants in Hampton Roads, ten restaurants were chosen as the best of the best by a team of Hampton Roads restaurant critics.
The Dish of Hampton Roads
Chef Maurice Wilson, 33, took top honors at the friendly competition—the Dish of Hampton Roads—with his Smithfield Pork Barbecue Spring Roll with Pungo Corn and Fennel Slaw with Bergey’s Dairy Farm Créme Fraiche.
by Patrick Evans-Hylton
The Birth of Cool (from an Early Photograph)
Charles Peterson’s art is a frozen flurry of sound and motion. His photographs are also the subject of a bold exposition opening in February at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, entitled, “Touch Me, I’m Sick: the Rock ’n’ Roll Photographs of Charles Peterson.”
by Michael Jon Khandelwal
But I Feel Fine
Many women feel protected from heart disease, erroneously believing it’s just a man’s problem. They make sure their husbands get checked, but don’t worry about themselves. Heart disease kills women, too—even young ones.
by Karen Haywood Queen
Maddry
There are millions of clutterers. Some even take a perverse pride in it, tossing clothes around their bedrooms onto lamp shades or bureau tops as a way of expressing their unfettered independence.
Upfront
Hampton Roads is due nearly $423 million for road construction.
Countdown to Jamestown
Old Tricks: Jamestown was founded on Enron-like deceit
Town & Country
The litany of injustices and bigotry Virginia Hasn’t Always Been for Lovers recites in discussing the history of laws against marriage between whites and nonwhites is quite literally the stuff of nightmares. PLUS: Golf tees, traffic signals, elevators, lawn sprinklers and a blood plasma storage method—each is the brainchild of an African-American inventor.
Datebook
Wall to wall and back to back, performances fill Hampton Roads stages almost non-stop from New Years Day through the end of February and into March.
Life
At Home
Don’t argue with Mom
Style
Women are notorious for raiding men’s closets. In this issue, we turn the tables on the typical lingerie fashion layout by putting the girl in the guy’s stuff.
Travel
The National Road begins in a city on no travel agent’s hot list and ends, one time zone to the west, in a city most Americans haven’t even heard of.
Wine
In a perfect world, wines would be labeled “Good, Cheap Red Wine” and “Great, Expensive White Wine.”
Dish
Local Flavor
Smithfield Station combines seafood restaurant, marina and inn.
Underground Gourmet
Since last March, Norfolk-native Dan Hunt has been running the stately B&B in downtown Franklin.
Last Words
The interests of survival collide with the interest of war
