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Eating In and Around the Shenadoah Valley

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in D.C. & DelMarVa: Dining

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rooftop1000

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16 days to go need more food.....we are actually staying 1st night in Waynesboro VA...I see they have a Shoney's

The great thing about barbeque is that when you get hungry 3 hours later....you can lick your fingers

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Busboy

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I can't remember my own kid's names but I can remember topics I started years ago. :laugh:

Anyway, just in time for your summer trip to the Blue Ridge/Great Smokies, I came up with two new tips.

First, way down in Chilhowie, Virginia, down I-81/Rt. 11 almost to the Tenessee line, is the quasi-molecular Town House Restaurant, two Trotter acolytes in a one-horse town.

And then, while plotting a possible trip later this summer, I came across this list of restaurants that use Polyface Farms meats. If you're unfamiliar with Polyface, they are to Niman Ranch as Niman Ranch is to Oscar Myer; fabulous and fabulously hip; featured by Momofuko and occupying a full chapter of one of those Michael Pollan books. You know the one where he kills a wild pig in the last section.

Anyway, I haven't eaten at any of these places, but the fact that they feature Polyface is a real good sign. So if your around Staunton (pronounced STANton, btw), Lexington, Harrisonburg and the like (and you should be this summer -- gorgeous countryside out there) you have a fighting chance at a decent meal.

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Meanderer

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We had a very nice lunch at One Block West in Winchester on Saturday. Two highlights: the spicy gazpacho, which was as good as or better than any I have eaten previously(other than homemade)and the local berries with passionfruit curd. The latter dish included something I've never before eaten in a restaurant--wineberries. Somebody went to quite a bit of work to pick those things because, although they are common in parts of the east, it takes a lot of them to make a pint.

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