Loads of new restaurants are on tap for Richmond
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Don't fret about this weekend's forecast, because scores of new restaurants are on tap — or already here — for hungry Richmond diners.
Why it matters: New eats are the best eats.
- Here's the latest.
Now open:
🚛 Bliss Cafe, a coffee and sandwich truck, has parked itself in front of Zombie Pizza on Semmes Avenue in Woodland Heights and will be posted up daily, 8am-3pm.
🍦 Klines Dairy Bar, beloved by JMU alum everywhere, is a custard-style soft serve spot now also in Chesterfield at 15589 Cosby Road — with a drive-thru.
🚨 La Cantina, a second-floor cocktail bar inside The Veil Forest Hill is serving tequila and agave cocktails and spirits, per Richmond Magazine.
🧋 7 Brew drive-thru coffee chain's first Richmond spot at 11 Le Gordon Drive in Chesterfield is up and running.
🥪 Le Box Lunch Cafe, a breakfast and lunch spot with boxed lunches (duh) is under new ownership in Chesterfield at the Arboretum.
Of note: Tequila Sunrise Mexican Kitchen & Cantina in Chesterfield is closed for good after a year in business, Axios Richmond readers report. Its social accounts have been deleted and its phone line disconnected.
Coming soon:
🦞 Mason's Famous Lobster Rolls, a fast-casual lobster roll chain out of Maryland, is opening its first Richmond location off Midlo near that 7 Brew at 14213 Winterview Parkway.
🍨 Corner Rock Cafe, a coffee shop and ice cream parlor from the owners of Toast and Sidecar Cocktail Lounge, will open in a few weeks in the Winterfield Place shopping center, per BizSense.
🧆 Susie's, a Jewish and Moroccan cafe from the folks behind the Susie & Esther, landed its forever home in the former The Hop Craft Pizza & Beer spot at 1600 W. Cary St., Richmond Mag reports.
🥯 Julio's Bagel Shop will bring some much-needed bagel action to Brookland Park (and Richmond as a whole, TBH) when it opens at a TBD date at 114 W. Brookland Park Blvd, reports BizSense. In the meantime, peep those schmears.