Classic Restaurants of Coastal Virginia

by Patrick Evans-Hylton

Overview

The history of dining in Virginia goes back to 1607. Dairy lunches and tearooms dominated the early twentieth-century dining scene. Local favorite Doumar's—famous for inventing the ice cream cone—became the rage at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition, and palatial seaside resorts like the Cavalier attracted patrons to their luxurious dining rooms in the Roaring Twenties. In the 1930s, Bacalis' Hot Dog Place invented the Norfolk Dog, a tradition that's carried on today. Steinhilber's has catered to family nights out for decades, keeping pace as the local food scene has grown and changed. Join local chef and food writer Patrick Evans-Hylton as he recalls the history of Coastal Virginia's restaurants and the personalities that made them unforgettable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467140171
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	06/10/2019
Series:	American Palate
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,154,968
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Patrick Evans-Hylton is a Johnson & Wales-trained chef, food historian and an award-winning food writer, covering tasty trends since 1995 in print, broadcast and electronic media. He is the publisher of VirginiaEatsandDrinks.com. Evans-Hylton runs a cooking and wine school, teaches a number of food writing and other media-related classes and hosts The Virginia Eats + Drinks Show on AM 790 WNIS, simulcast nationwide online. He cooks and writes in his kitchen in Virginia Beach.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

1 Eats + Drinks-ionary 13

2 Birthplace of American Cuisine 23

Native Americans 26

Caribbean Connections 27

1619: A Pivotal Year 30

Women 32

Colony Growth 35

Ordinaries, Taverns and Inns 36

First True Restaurants Emerge 43

3 Turn of the Twentieth Century 45

Let's Do Lunch 46

Drink, Don't Drink 48

Oysters' Golden Era 58

Mr. Pender Comes to Norfolk 61

A Taste of the East 63

Opulence in Hotel, Club and Steamboat Dining 65

Onyx Opulence 78

4 You Say You Want a Revolution: Wars and Other Military Influence 83

Revolutionary War 85

Civil War 89

World War I and World War II 92

5 Beach Eats 101

Hampton 102

Norfolk 111

Virginia Beach 120

Other Waterside Eats 134

6 From Hot Dogs to Haute Cuisine 137

Dogs, Drive-Ins and Other Deliciousness 139

Food for the Nuclear Family 147

Meals of Magnificence 152

Shop and Sup 161

7 Coastal Virginia Comes into Its Own 169

Current Menus that Define Coastal Virginia Cuisine 171

Other Restaurants that Changed the Landscape 172

Gone but Not Forgotten 174

Four and Twenty Culinary Professionals to Know 175

8 A Sampling of Coastal Virginia Cuisine 205

Selected Bibliography 219

About the Author 221