Elliott has invented a walking food tour challenge of Church Hill: I just got a crazy idea: There is a series of amazing restaurants between the traffic circle at 25th Jefferson and M and my house. We need to capitalize on that. I call it the Church Hill Challenge.
richmond.com is running a poll on the best coffeehouse in Richmond and local favorites Globehopper and Captain Buzzy’s are both in the running. Cast your vote!
Potential candidates for council Deanna Lewis and Gary Powell will be in front of Captain Buzzy’s tonight from 7-9ish collecting signatures to get on the ballot for the City Council 7th District contest. Stop by, shake a hand, and help’em participate in the democratic process.
The Eliza B. Askin Richmond 2008 calendar with illustrations of local haunts Captain Buzzy’s and Poe’s Pub is now available in some of the local bookstores.
An effort to bring a dog park to Chimborazo Park, including a petition at Captain Buzzy’s, has sprung out of the comments on the early-September post Animal Control in Chimbo Park?. Contact the organizers at chimbodogs@hotmail.com for more information.
Local food/wine blogger pjpink of River City Food and Wine passed through the neighborhood for Richmond Italian Street Festival 2007 (calling it “a fantastic day for food and wine”) and then took in the charms of Captain Buzzy and Libby Hill.
We’ve recently discovered an East Broad Street oriented website from 1996 that is like a small time capsule. The site includes a history of Broad Street and a page for the Quick Check that was in the Captain Buzzy’s building.
