Get equipment for your own froyo, donut, and smoothie shop on the cheap
Goin' Bananas, the now-defunct frozen yogurt and donut shop that was located at Three Chopt Road and Patterson Avenue, is selling off all of its food equipment and even the point of sale system in a lot, and it can be yours today.
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Read moreWoodland Heights Food Truck Friday
June has zoomed past…and July is almost done…but there’s one more Food Truck Court before August comes around…so grab a quesadilla or a Pho slider and spend some time with friends and neighbors…
Join us Friday night in the Woodland Heights Baptist Church parking lot (611 W. 31st St.). Come set up at a table, or bring a blanket and/or lawn chairs and spread out on the lawn...or grab your dinner to go... The Food Trucks will open for business at 5:30 and remain until 8:30
Here are the trucks scheduled for July 31:
- BoDillaz -"Famous Quesadillas”
- Popping Mealies - "Well crafted and well priced comfort food, gourmet sandwiches, and sides."
- The Hungry Turtle - Serving authentic Vietnamese cuisine and Asian fusion including banh mi sandwiches, egg rolls, Pho sliders and tacos.
- The Return of the Mac - Bringing a unique option to your mobile dining experience, The Return of the Mac strives to bring you the freshest, fastest and most delicious journey your mouth has ever experienced.
…and, for dessert…
- King of Pops - Providing "an ecologically responsible, fresh, all natural frozen treat in a fun neighborhood environment”
It’s always a great time at Food Truck Fridays!
--Robert Johns
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Read moreFood News: Monday brunch, a boozy lunch, and cold-brew coffee that packs a punch
Photo by: Vassilis Online
MONDAY I'M IN BRUNCH
For me, there are two words that, on their own are fine enough but, when combined, are positively thrilling: Monday. Brunch. Sure, brunch is great on Sunday and a boon on Saturday, but when you are brunching on a Monday, you are fighting typical Monday symtoms with powerful ammunition. It's almost impossible to get bunched up over TPS reports when you're staring down a plate of Gambas Bravas--crispy potatoes covered with shrimp-and-peppers-scrambled eggs, and a chorizo cheese sauce! TP-WHAT REPORTS? CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE CHEWING, LUMBERG.
Black Sheep is now providing just such relief every Monday from 10:00 - 3:00 PM. LET'S ALL GO! (But not all at once like we do on Sundays!)
BOMBOLINI BY THE GLASS
Want some booze with those noodles? Good news. Bombolini Pasta now offers wine by the glass and beer on tap. Pints of Allagash White, Unita Hopnotch IPA, and Firestone Walker Pivo Hoppy Pils are available for $4.50 each. Wines available by the glass include Pierre Henri Pinot Noir, Chateau Lyonnat Emotion, and Stellenryck Sauvignon Blanc. Finally, you can enjoy a nice red wine with your bowl of spaghetti at lunch! Productivity, be damned!
YES, YOU CAN
You don't have to be Andy Warhol to turn cans of food into art. On Sunday, August 9th from noon to 5:00 PM, you can turn your boring old cans of tuna fish and Campbell's soup into actual apartment-beautifying works of art. It's Foodist Colony III, a canned food drive for the Central VA Food Bank with an inspiring purpose at 1708 Gallery; featuring a big ol' potluck at the end with food by Mike Hill of Heritage and Lemaire's Bryan McClure, plus live music, edible screenprinting, and a ton of great local artists.
YES, THEY CAN
When you cross that threshold between home-based food preserver and full-on doomsday prepper, places like the New London Community Cannery have all the equipment you need to put up cans of everything from tomatoes to beef. Canners bring their goods to the facility each morning, working on equipment that's been there for its entire 70-year history. According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, folks like Barry and Betty Tuck make a day of it, coming in early to can a big batch of tomatoes and then visiting with their friends for the rest of the hot summer afternoons.
A DAY IN THE LIFE...OF BRISKET
Richmond Magazine's Stephanie Breijo had the enviable task of spending an entire day with ZZQ's Chris Fultz and Alex Graf and their briskets, and she was able to glean their secrets for you, should you ever want to spend an entire day tending to a giant lobe of meat. Here's the real secret: You are lazy/busy and would prefer to let Chris and Alex TCB for you, and there is not a dang thing wrong with that.
YOU'RE HIRED
If you live in the East End, are trained in food service, and want a job you can probably walk to, now is your time to shine. Millie's and Union Market are hiring for kitchen staff immediately, and Pizza Tonight and Whisk are hiring for FOH and BOH staff to train for their upcoming openings. GO GET EMPLOYED.
PASTA KING OF RICHMOND
Tim Bereika is a font of knowledge. When I watched him instruct a Fire, Flour & Fork crowd on how to make the perfect budino (a heavenly Italian pudding-y custard), I knew the chef had plenty to share. He takes a calm approach to instruction, neither intimidating nor glib, that is just as suitable for a professional chef as a home cook. So it's no surprise that Bereika has teamed up with YouTube network Tastemade to produce Kitchen & Craft, a 14-episode web series that covers essentials like the perfect poached egg and some of Bereika's signature items, like those glorious fried chickpeas that made chips feel irrelevant and tired from Bereika's Secco days.
FROM ELSEWHERE...
Tomato pie means many things to many people.
Cilantro, now with less feces! Your weekly reminder to buy local!
SIP OF THE WEEK: CONFLUENCE COFFEE CO. BARREL-AGED COLD BREW
Confluence Coffee Company has finally delivered something I feel like I've been waiting for FOREVER--locally-made, bottled cold brew coffee. And it gets better! It's barrel-aged and bottled using a nitrogen gas method, which imparts a nutty, barrel-y flavor and delightfully creamy sip. It's kind of like drinking a glass of pillowy bourbon that can actually make you feel more efficient and productive, so: HI COLD BREW, I LOVE YOU.
BITE OF THE WEEK: THE CONTINENTAL WESTHAMPTON'S LOBSTER ROLL
When a menu claims to use fresh, never-frozen lobster, and they're not located in a shack next to the ocean, I'm always a bit curious. In the case of the Continental Westhampton, it seems as though they've utilized overnight shipping to glorious effect, with a $15 lobster roll (with chips) that hits all the right notes of buttery bread, creamy mayonnaise, and sweet sweet lobster. I could eat two in a sitting! #humblebrag
GRAM OF THE WEEK: @THEDOGANDPIGSHOW / @PROPERPIECO
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Maybe you can comfort yourself with their 'grams while they're both closed THROUGH ALL OF AUGUST. My chinese sausage sandwich and chicken & kumara pie cravings will be at a fever pitch by September. THERE WILL BE BINGEING.
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Read moreVermont brewmaster heading to RVA to open The Veil in Scott’s Addition
A specially trained brewer is about to take the phrase “taste of Richmond” to a whole new level at a Scott’s Addition brewery now under construction.
A year ago, at the small, family-run Cantillon Brewery in Anderlecht, Brussels, American brewer Matt Tarpey and fourth-generation brewer Jean-Pierre van Roy were walking around a barrel warehouse discussing spontaneous fermentation.
It’s a challenging process that involves making beer from wild yeast strains floating in the air — and it’s one of Tarpey’s favorite subjects. It also inspired the name of the new Veil Brewing Co. “There’s a protein-based membrane that grows on top of the beer in the barrel called the pellicle,” Tarpey says over coffee at Urban Farmhouse in Scott’s Addition. “Natural wines develop them as well, and Jean has friends in Italy who told him natural winemakers there call pellicles ‘the veil.’”
Fast-forward to 2015, and Tarpey, 30, is head brew master and co-founder of the new operation at the former Unity Baptist Church, on Roseneath Road across from an old Coca-Cola bottling plant. Although the renovation has been held up by asbestos removal, he and co-owners Dustin Durrance and Dave Michelow plan to open in November.
Photo: Scott Elmquist/Style Weekly
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Read moreStyle Weekly profiles The Answer Brewpub’s Brandon Tolbert
If you’re the Answer Brewpub’s Brandon Tolbert, you’re marveling that a beer-making hobby led to a career: “I had no idea it would turn into this.”
After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in painting and printmaking, Tolbert took a job as a technician with a printing company, brewing beer and comparing notes with fellow home brewers during off hours. In 2013, after a friend in the James River Homebrewers Association suggested Tolbert for consideration, Extra Billy’s BBQ in Midlothian offered him a job as head brewer.
“I don’t know why anyone would do that,” Tolbert says, looking back. “It’s a risk. There are a lot of differences between home brewing and commercial brewing. When you do it at home, it’s for yourself. I’m now in the position of making beer people want to buy.”
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Read moreTIP! Beer glasses!
The beer nerds in the office (I know, I know, they will never shut their beer-swilling traps) have assured me that this is FASCINATING INFO.
"Why Good Bars Spray Your Beer Glass with Water," VinePair is ready to inform you!
It's because it allows a "more even, clean pour and a substantial, fragrant head."
Now, forgive me, I'm sure connoisseurs are very, very concerned about the cleanliness of their pour and the fragrance of their, uh, head. I'll have to do some A/B testing on the nerds. What's a good beer? I hear something called "Bud Light" is "Up for whatever." Off to 7-11!
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Read moreTIP! The best smoothies ’n’ juice around
I keep trying to figure out a way to perfectly capture what the Ellwood Thompson juice bar experience means to me, but it's tougher than I expected. I just...love it so much. The filling and delicious Almond Brother, the nutrition-packed Mean Green, and I won't forget you, my beloved chia-spiked Get Glowing. When I feel like something full of fresh, raw vegetables and fruits and don't feel like assembling it myself and going through with the arduous task of chewing a food, ET is my place.
Each harried and pulp-covered juice bar employee does their best to try to remain cheerful as we timidly give our orders, sending them mixing and juicing and trying to suppress a small sigh when we ask for more wheat grass. In my mind, it's the position the employees hate the most because of the sheer cardiovascular strength it must require--but the sheer joy they bring each customer as they hand them a Runner's Boost and initial the ninth spot on their juice card...I'm not sure what could match that.
Oh yeah, the juice card. That's what this TIP! is about. Grab one at the juice bar or at any register, and make sure you get someone to initial it for you every single time you buy any size juice or smoothie. Your tenth will be free. And even the ET-ers will make sure you know that you should definitely get a 20-ouncer with your free slot--those things aren't cheap.
Ellwood Thompson's is a local market at the intersection of Ellwood and Thompson. Wait a second...
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Read moreVictory Farms concerned about plans for Dominion Virginia Power substation
Victory Farms has been providing the neighborhood fresh fruits and vegetables for years. Not surprisingly the farm is more than a little concerned about "new to them" plans to put a substation next to the farm. One of their farms major concerns would the affect the bee colony located on the farm. Any damage to the colony would greatly impact the many fruits that they grow and sell.
If you're a supporter of Victory Farms they're asking that you read the following and more importantly come out to the meeting tomorrow.
From Victory Farms:
We have just been informed of plans for Dominion Virginia Power to purchase land and build an electric substation directly across Osborne Turnpike from our farm.
Dominion has to get a special use permit to proceed. Please support the Varina neighbors and your farmers as they work with Henrico County to determine if this proposal is safe and best placed in this location. Ask questions, help us research, and show up - community involvement DOES make a difference.
There is an open house community meeting on this subject scheduled for TOMORROW NIGHT Wednesday, July 29th from 7 - 8:30pm at the Antioch Baptist Church, 1384 New Market Road, Varina.
If you have concerns - as we do - about the building of an electric substation directly across from YOUR farm, please join us at the meeting to show support and ask questions of Dominion Virginia Power and Henrico County.
Thank you for supporting a family farm, the rural agricultural character of Varina, and the ability of small farmers to prosper and provide healthy food to the community at large.
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Read moreRichmond’s Sweetest and Coldest Treats
Ice cold refreshment is a mere three steps away with this handy guide to a few of RVA's sweetest, freeziest treats. Step One: Identify the factors that lead to your overheatedness. Step Two: Find the indulgence that corresponds to your lifestyle. Step Three: CONSUME IT.
PERK! BON AIR'S SALTED CARAMEL AFFOGATO
You've spent the day cleaning out your great aunt's attic, rummaging through family photos and orange polyester shift dresses that suggest Aunt Goldie used to be much, much thinner. Your lungs are filled with insulation dust, and your heart is filled with nostalgia. You need something sweet but also bracing as you reenter the present day. Spoon your way through Perk!'s affogato, a heaping scoop of Gelati Celesti's salted caramel gelato in a frozen glass, drowning in a freshly-pulled shot of Blanchard's espresso.
Visit Perk!
2620 Buford Road
N. Chesterfield, VA 23235
BÁNH MÌ CATINA'S AVOCADO BUBBLE TEA
Photo by Marcella Lee of Broad Appetite.
Canvassing for the Sierra Club in the 90-degree heat is a thankless, tiring job; but I suppose someone has to do it, and that someone is you. You may not have raised any money for environmental watchdogs, but you've earned quite a sunburn and several new blisters where your Birkenstocks rubbed away your foot skin. Nurse your booboos with a subtly sweet avocado bubble tea from Bánh Mì Catina, and, because I know you're hungry, break your last $5 on a $3.50 bánh mì sandwich. It should sustain you in a way your do-gooder instincts simply cannot.
Visit Bánh Mì Catina
6215 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23226
KING OF POPS' ARNOLD PALMER POPSICLE
The majestic Arnold Palmer pop via King of Pops' Facebook.
Sitting in a golf cart and watching some poor sap carry your 30-lb golf bag around can be really hard work. Hard work like ordering a pair of gold Adidas wings online or telling your gardener to trim all of your shrubs to look like Leela from Futurama. Did I mention you're not even good at golf? You just do it for the sick polo shirt tan. For you, there is only the Arnold Palmer pop. The King of all Pops has harnessed the power of iced tea and sweet lemonade in one thirst-quenching experience. It's the good life, frozen and on a stick.
Visit King of Pops and check out their handy pop map for today's cart locations
801 Cleveland Street
Richmond, VA 23221
RAY'S ITALIAN WATER ICE & FROZEN CUSTARD'S RAY'S ROCKET
You've been tapping into your inner Walter Matthau and have spent the day coaching nine athletically-challenged youths in the fine art of baseball. What you really want is a Miller High Life, but this time, get a Ray's Rocket instead. It's any flavor of Ray's Italian Ice layered with frozen custard, and it's a lot better for you than the beer you've been guzzling like water since 10:00 AM. And while you're at it, how about treating those nine hopeless kids to something other than the ice in your cooler for once.
Visit Ray's
3039 Lauderdale Drive
Richmond, VA 23233
OR!
2416 Old Brick Road
Glen Allen, VA 23060
METZGER BAR & BUTCHERY'S MACARON ICE CREAM SANDWICHES
Ice cream macarons from Metzger's Facebook.
You didn't GET hot. You ARE hot. You were born hot. Like, when you were born, the doctor shouted, "Nurse, this baby is too damn hot; get me some kind of ice cream sandwich STAT!" True story. And there is not a more fitting dessert on this list for your hot hotness than the macaron ice cream sandwiches prepared by pastry chef Olivia Wilson at Metzger Bar & Butchery. Try the vanilla bean macaron with cantaloupe ice cream or perhaps the orange blossom macaron with blackberry ice cream, dipped in chocolate. Yeah.
Visit Metzger
801 N. 23rd Street
Richmond, VA 23223
EN SU BOCA'S CASA HORCHATA
Your increased body temperature is due as much to the summer heat as to the half dozen chorizo tacos you just housed. Cool yourself from the inside out with ESB's Casa Horchata, a creamy blend of rice milk, sweetened condensed milk and cinnamon. And if that doesn't work, try the Jalisco Coffee--Horchata plus Patron XÓ Café (coffee-flavored tequila of the gods). That should do the trick and ready you for your next round of tacos.
Visit En Su Boca
1001 N. Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220
CHOCOLATES BY KELLY'S FROZEN CHOCOLATE-COVERED WATERMELON POPS
You're a proud trash-stick-toting Church Hill block cleaner, and you've been picking up cigarette butts and Valero receipts like it's your job EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT. You, good neighbor, deserve a treat. Mosey on over to Chocolates By Kelly's retail store and get yourself a chocolate-covered, sea-salt-flecked, twig-handled frozen watermelon pop. Then sit on your front porch eating it and yelling at people whenever they dare litter.
Visit Chocolates By Kelly
600 N. 29th Street
Richmond, VA 23223
OR!
5047 Forest Hill Avenue
Richmond, VA 23225
THE CONTINENTAL'S STUART'S BAKED ALASKA
Nothing is more retro or more delicious. From the Continental's Facebook.
You've been at the tracks all day, betting on horses and losing your shirt. Get your girlfriend to take you to The Continental when she gets off work, and demand to eat Stuart's Baked Alaska--layered pistachio cake and Homestead Creamery's vanilla ice cream, covered in meringue and then torched and sugar-dusted--for your entire meal. She'll find it inexplicably charming because no one has ever paid attention to her the way you do.
Visit The Continental Westhampton
5704 Grove Avenue
Richmond VA 23226
PUDDING PLEASE'S PUDDING POPS
You've been laying by the pool all day, reading Meg Cabot novels on your Kindle and keeping half an eye out for your kids to make sure they haven't drowned. Reward your adequate parenting skills and cool down your brood with a few of Pudding Please's pudding pops, newly available at Ellwood Thompson's and Union Market in flavors like Banana with Vanilla Cookie and Coffee with Brownie Bits.
Visit Pudding Please
And purchase at:
Union Market
2306 Jefferson Avenue
Richmond, VA 23223
AND/OR!
Ellwood Thompson's
4 N. Thompson Street
Richmond, VA 23221
GELATI CELESTI'S "THE DUDE" GELATO
Also known as "El Duderino," if you're not into the whole brevity thing. You've been at the lanes all day, throwing rocks, wearing a robe and flip flops, and listening to Creedence tapes. Put down the Pomeranian and make your way to Gelati Celesti. They've got a flavor to meet your exact specifications: The Dude combines coffee liqueur with chocolate fudge to make one hell of a Caucasian concoction. It'll chill you out faster than you can say "nice marmot."
Visit Gelati Celesti
8906 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23294
OR!
3004 Stony Point Road
Richmond, VA 23235
OR!
11805 W. Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23233
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Read moreTIP! Yet more cheap pizza
It is our pleasure and privilege to bring to you two more cheap pizza options. I'm so glad we all agree that pizza, while being the best food to ever exist, should be consumed thriftily. Because, honestly, we could make this at home. We just choose not to.
From an anonymous TIP!ster, we bring you Arianna's, the Lakeside location. Every Tuesday from 5:00 - 8:00 PM, this sprightly gal slings your pizzas for half off. That's right, Northsiders, you'll be able to use this excuse to fill your emptiness with cheese, tomato sauce, and other toppings (they're full price, btw).
Up next, from TIP!ster Gabrielle, we have Baker's Crust in Carytown. This popular restaurant defies the curse of using the word "Crust" in the name of your business--and also makes a fantastic pizza, Gabrielle says! On Thursdays, you're welcome to that pizza for just half of the listed price. In fact, why don't we make it our duty to figure out where we can get half-priced pizza at a different place, every day of the week?
Get at us below if you know of another (or just have a completely unrelated tip for us--preferably involving weight loss, because...cheese'n'sauce.)
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Read moreBeer News: Weird beer, massive quantities of beer, analysis of beer, and just a lot of beer
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Hardywood conquers Goochland
This week's Big Beer News™ comes from Hardywood, who announced that they're expanding to West Creek in Goochland. They'll move their main production facility out there, host what will probably become the most popular happy hour in all of the West End, and will continue using the downtown location for specialty brews and, presumably, raucous 4th of July parties.
Hardywood currently brews on a 20-barrel system and is on track to brew 15,000 barrels of beer this year. Some quick math tells me that they're brewing two full batches of beer every. single. day. This seems like a daunting amount of work. The new system is a 60-barrel deal, which puts them on target for more than 40,000 barrels--and that's just at the new location. Similar daunting amounts of work for sure, but three times the amount of beer.
Robey Martin over at Richmond Magazine has some more secret details about the whole situation, including their plans for souring beers the old fashioned way (a.k.a. just leaving them to sit out in a giant tub).
Attention beer-ravenous Richmonders
August is Virginia Craft Beer Month. It is, currently, not August. But! Hardywood is celebrating a little early with some "serious specials" on their stock of Reserve Series and Barrel Series bottles. Hit up their Ownby Lane location and grab some fancy beers--they make great gifts! The deals run through the end of August, or until beer-ravenous Richmonders overrun the facility and deplete 100% of their stock.
Beeranalysis test
Page Hayes goes on a tour of all of the Richmond breweries, giving them a personality test along the way. If you've got out-of-town beer nerds coming in for a whirlwind weekend brewery tour, read this article and then plan accordingly.
<District 9 joke>
Last night District 5 opened up on Main Street in the weird "once a brewery, then a martini bar and some other stuff, now a beer bar" spot. You know the one1. They'll have their grand opening tonight, July 24th. Sounds like I may need to happy hour my way down there...
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Elsewhere...
The Raleigh Beer Garden has 366 taps, taking the record for The Most Taps of Any Place in the Entire Known Universe. How they keep that many taps stocked, I do not know.
Here is the truest and best thing I've ever read: Shitty Beer Is the Best Beer, and Miller High Life Is Best of All.
SIP: Cucumbers Eve
I know, I know. I keep talking about how I don't like to put weird crap in my beer, but people keep putting these things in their beers that sound so interesting. This week's edition of Hardywood's Berliner has 200 pounds of Hanover cucumbers shoved in there. CUCUMBERS! Sometimes it is just so freaking hot out that all you can do is drink a cucumber, you know?
Other releases, takeovers, and things
- Ardent is hosting another beer brunch this Sunday. Expect the regulars: breakfast pizzas, beer bloodies, and ice cream sandwiches.
- $30 gets you into Center of the Universe's Shut Cancer's Cornhole tournament this Saturday. I hate cancer and I love cornhole and beer. Money raised benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
- This picture from Isley makes me think a refreshing summertime brew is in the works.
- Bombolini in the Fan now has beer (and wine) by the glass. They also have a pretty chill spot to sit and consume those glasses of beer and wine.
- Lickinghole's 'til Sunset Friday Night Concert Series continues tonight. Side note: I really enjoy the design of the 'til Sunset can.
- Triple Crossing releases their Paranoid ALEdroid today. IT'S AN OK COMPUTER REFERENCE, OK?
'Gram: The Cask Cafe
Happy Belgian IndyDay! Join us for Belgian fare and beer from @DuvelUSA @ChouffeUSA @LiefmansUSA @BreweryOmmegang 5pm pic.twitter.com/YSK4DzgL70— The Cask Cafe (@TheCaskCafe) July 20, 2015
- That's 1911 W. Main Street if you don't know the one. ↩
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Read moreEAT Restaurant Partners announce new restaurant in former Kelly’s fast food building
EAT owner Chris Tsui signed a lease Thursday for 1300 N. Boulevard, a block from Fat Dragon and across from Bow Tie's Movieland at Boulevard Square.
"I like Scott's Addition," Tsui said. "It seems like a new residential building is converting every other week."
Tsui's not giving any hints on the food concept coming to the new space, which should open in early 2016.
The building was known as Kelly's, a fast food joint, as far back as the 1950s. 1990s cartoon Doug creator Jim Jenkins said recently in a Style Weekly cover story that the restaurant was the inspiration for The Honker Burger, a hangout for many of the animated show's characters.
Photo: Richmond.com
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Read moreGet a free pop delivered from King of Pops today only with #UberIceCream
Consider this an invitation to chill out. Your office probably doesn’t have a slip n’ slide, and running through the sprinklers likely won’t go over well with your boss. Don’t sweat it — you can still feel like a kid again by ordering ice cream on demand with #UberIceCream.
Today only, July 24th, Uber is teaming up with Capital One to bring frozen treats to the masses. The promotion is global, but with local flavor. In Richmond, King of Pops will be dishing out the goods.
So how does it all work? It's pretty simple. Just open the Uber app today between 11:00 AM and 5:00 PM, set your location, and request a free pop. It'll be delivered within minutes. Boom!
What's in your wallet? Hopefully a Capital One card (credit and debit cards are acceptable), because the only catch is that you have to be a Capital One cardholder in good standing. If you have one, just add your card as a payment method and enter promo code SWEETDEAL in the Uber app before requesting.
If you don't have one, naturally they'd like you to sign up, so they're offering another sweet deal. If you open a Quicksilver card, you'll get 20% back on every Uber ride through April 2016. Hmm, reminds me of the time I signed up for my first credit card in college for a free T-shirt (yes, that actually happened, and I am still filled with shame years later).
If you don't have a CapOne card, you can still get pop delivery, but you'll have to pay.
Demand will be high, of course, so order early!
Photo: The Verge
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