i’m sure the landlord was real worried about rise pizzaworks when they made this deal. the owner of barracks road, federal realty, has no regard for their local tenants who put their life on the line to open up businesses in their center only to watch the landlord bring in direct competitors.

A little bit of free advice for Mr Newcomb…. adopt a policy of giving cops free or half price food. They will appreciate it and you will get free security so to speak.

(Yes folks, I am being serious! There’s nothing wrong with this policy even though I have joked about it in the past in other threads!)

Do I meet my friends at Brix (Pantops) or do I meet them at Brixx (Barracks Road)

I am soooo confused.

They out their life on the line? Like they might die? WTF?

I would like Boston Market to stay and Brixx to go!

Ah, never mind…confused with the Brick Oven…so many bricks, so many pizzas

GBSO-I know a lot of cops eat at the Arby’s because of discounts. Am I wrong, wasn’t this the restaurant where they were finally able to get a DNA sample for the serial rapist after he was spotted at Harris Teeter working at the meat counter by one of his victims? If I remember correctly, whether Arby’s or not, his eating habits were known and cops staked out the restaurant and were able to retrieve a cup he had used after he discarded it in the trash.

Lets see. We have a Brix. Then we replaced bricks with bricks downtown. Now we are getting a Brixx. Next they will probable replace Ultimate Bliss with BriXXX where you can buy movies with women built like a brickhouse! What would Stonewall Jackson say?

The great thing about this is all of you have a choice. A choice to b#$(#, piss and moan about it and a choice to ultimately not go to the location. However, most of these are pre-judgments without knowledge. The Brixx locations themselves (which I have visited in NC) have good food, but better beer choices. Typically 20-30 beer selections. I’m all for good beer, and if I can get a good salad or marginable pizza, then bring it on.

Lannie, no. One of his rape victims spotted him eating at the Burger King in Barracks Road Shopping Center. She called the police and they retreived the soda cup he was drinking from to do the DNA tests.

If this rape victim had not spotted him in Burger King, he would still be out there brutally raping owmen just like he had done for over a decade already.

The victim solved this serial rape case. It had stumped the police for over a decade.

quote: “yeah, she totally solved the case, did her own dna tests and everything.”

No. The Commonwealth of Virginia did the DNA testing. The average female rape victim doesn’t have the equipment and knowledge required to perform DNA testing.

It’s not so much about it being another restaurant…it’s that it’s another chain restaurant. Love all the “BUY LOCAL” crapola that is served up in this town, all the while the town lets in more chains to counteract our ability to do so (understanding that it’s not really the local consensus to bring in another chain).

Hey Hook, will you do a story about businesses that were denied bringing real jobs to Charlottesville? Where is anyone supposed to work in this town…if they want a “real” job and don’t want to manage a retail store? I imagine we’re gonna have to move this year because of it. Please FINALLY address the problem with a real solution…don’t just tell us about it (we’re well aware of it).

Too bad we can’t find somebody to resurrect the old Kenny Burger chain restaurants. They had the best crinkle cut fries and burgers in Charlottesville for a very long time. And the special sauce on the burgers was out of this world! My brother and his girlfriend(s) used to hang around the place with all the other guys & girls showing off their new muscle cars there every weekend. And of course - the good, the bad, and the ugly - a lot of street racing was born upon the city streets from this place… it might have had something to do with the place finally closing up. But I sure do miss their food. Waynesboro had one most recently, but that has closed up too now. I guess the secret of the special sauce is hidden away somewhere though.

(For those who don’t recall or never knew about this Kenny Burger place, it was located where the current Kentucky Fried Chicken is on Emmett Street)

Beer and pizza. Sounds tasty. As soon as the free trolley does the sensible thing and extends its run to Barracks I’ll be there with my money.

“Mirror, mirror on the wall
The face you’ve shown me scares me so
I thought that I could call your bluff
But now the lines are clear enough
Life’s not pretty even though
I’ve tried so hard to make it so
Mornings are such cold distress
How did I ever get into this mess?”
– Styx

They need to deliver beer by the case!Keep it cold and keep it coming!Wooooo!!!!!

Wow! Another Kenny Burger fan. I thought I was the only one left alive! I’d give $50 right now for two of their cheeseburgers with the special sauce, an order of their fries and a chocolate milk shake!

Kenny Burger was swell! I can remember my Grandmother loved the place. She was from old school where everything was cooked from scratch and was amazed that you could go buy a GOOD burger that cheap and fast. But I agree with Rob, The Caravan was fantastic!

Nobody has ever matched the steak and cheese hoagies of Lupo’s. Absolutely nobody!

Caravan, excellent! Remember the Humpty Dumpty, across from the Ridge Drive In? And the one downtown beside Lucky Seven? Good food.

People allowed the McDonalds and Burger Kings to put all these places out of business I guess.

I don’t understand why business owners don’t realize a nice Drive-In Theatre or Kenny Burger could survive now if they came back to life. I would guarantee either of them could make a go of it.

No. The Caravan was in the building just north and next to the Golden Corral. It was a car dealership (R M Davis) at one time. Then Brown Auto had it for a while. And now it is some type of tractor supply.

This Boston Market lasted longer than most, proving again that Barracks Road is Grade A retail property, hell it’s number one on the city tax map. Center of town. I thought the food there was decent, but haven’t gone in years. Maybe Brixx serves good pizza, I will try it, and most on here will too. I feel bad for the folks at Rise, but would expect they knew Brixx was coming when they signed their lease. Hey Dave, if you’re reading all these, how can brunch and burger places be listed this week, but The Nook is not applicable to either? Mono Loco is listed under brunch, erroneously. Blue Light Grill Chef Lee Gregory started at Noon today, formerly the Executive Chef at Six Burner in Richmond and most recently holding the same title at Mockingbird in Staunton.

Who remembers Barnaby’s Pizza .. now that was some good eats there! Tom Butte knew how to fix ‘em for sure! YUM!

“Wood Fired Pizza?” LOL

Hmmmm….this gives the impression that they will be stoking a wood stove in the heart of Barracks Road Shopping Center. It’s probably gas fired and the tag-line-moniker about wood fired is just more gas of a different sort.

the day in n out comes to Charlottesville is the day….I get really crushed and get me some In N Out!!!

Actually, In & Out are in CA, NV, AZ & UT, I stand corrected.

I’d also like to see a Romano’s Macaroni Grill and a Rudy’s BBQ, but that’s asking too much from this two bit town.

Rob, I do. Was right there beside Seven Eleven on Greenbrier Drive! Barnaby’s was good food. The sandwiches and burgers were served up in a basket full of fries and pickles. And they had the square ice cubes about the size of a dime, made the beverages good and cold.

The food at Boston Market was not decent, not when you compare it to actual homemade, home cooked food. My boyfriend and I ate there over a year ago. We were definitely disappointed in the bland, mushy, overcooked food. We’re spoiled with our own homemade food cooked just right, and loaded with flavor. Never went back there again. Now it’s gone. No loss! If people don’t know how to cook though they’ll probably think Boston Market is actually good, because they don’t know any better. Guess you can’t fault them.

And In & Out? You have got to be kidding me. World’s worst tasting, worst quality, overrated hamburger ever. Anybody parroting the mind control mantra of how awesome In & Out is is a zombie, period. I ate at an In & Out once when I lived in SoCal, never again. My ex boyfriend and I had a bond about our distaste for In & Out. Everybody else was under the mind control spell about In & Out and we were both like, Uhhhhhh………..no. People must never have eaten a home cooked charbroiled hamburger off a barbeque grill to think In & Out actually tastes good!!

And any pizza joint that uses the “wood fired stove” and “brick oven” bit as a selling point is pretentious, period!

boooo!, it’s funny how comments jog a memory so much. We used to have a “Charcoal Burger” joint in town, they had good burgers cooked over actual charcoal. It was on Main Street where the 10th Street connector is. The new hotel would be sitting on top of it now. It too was good food.

It saddens me to remember all of these decent places that have gone out of business. But of course, we can always find a Burger King or McDonalds every mile or so.

I enjoy cafeteria food, like K&W, but I am probably the only one………….I miss La Hacienda and El Cabrito’s, I haven’t been able to find Mexican food like that anywhere. The owners retired, and didn’t want anyone else to run the business, too bad.

Can’t believe nobody noticed the Carving Board sold. Or maybe I missed it. Either way, it seems like all the tricks got taught to the new owner, because it’s still outstanding.