Dec 12, 2022 - Things to Do
The best Richmond-made holiday gifts
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You can totally represent Richmond while doing your holiday shopping. We have suggestions.
🍾 Drinks: If this isn’t the season’s hottest gift, we don’t want to live here anymore. Pair a bottle of Valentine’s Meat Juice Bloody Mary mix with a bottle of Cirrus Vodka.
- Bonus points: Buff up on the history of meat juice, the weirdest historical cure-all to come out of the city, and regale your friends as you drink.
🖼️ Prints: You can go in two distinctly different directions here.
- There’s the goofy route, via Doug Orleski aka RVA Coffee Stain, who can hook you up with drawings of everything from a Duke’s Mayonnaise jar to Main Street Station as a popsicle.
- For the twee, outdoorsy type, check out Clara Cline’s studio, The Wild Wander, which hawks hand-pressed, field guide-style prints of local flora and fauna.
🧀 Subscriptions: Yes, these are on the spendy side of things, but perhaps you need to go all out?
- For $150, spoil a friend with a three-month subscription to Truckle Cheesemongers Cheese Club. (They also offer beautiful charcuterie boards with a gift wrap option.)
- And for $190, you can have five weeks’ worth of locally grown bouquets delivered beginning this spring.
🛍 Bonus: If you’re more of a browser, check out these brick-and-mortar shops with big selections of local items.
- In Carytown, Beasties and Mongrel are always reliable.
- MediaNoche in Stony Point Fashion Park has a whole corner dedicated to Richmond-made stuff.
- And don’t forget your favorite museum’s gift shop.