Daniel’s Food + Drink Complete Guide

Vibey spot with outstanding cocktails.

My favorite restaurant in Richmond — approachable, excellent seafood-driven food with great service and cocktail program.

Natty wine shop + quietly one of the best restaurants in Richmond.

Best patio for a Saturday afternoon. Kind people who make wine approachable.

Walk to the back and ask for a shrimp poboy and a ton of napkins.

This spot is magic.

You must sit in the patio.

Ask for a ham biscuit and enjoy my favorite breakfast in the world.

Pro tip: go to Crush Pad and order Luce! Get the Bolo or whatever special they have.

Late night get the Greg Brady, it’s a burger with Mac and cheese and BBQ chips.

Kimchi breakfast sandwich on a za’atar croissant. Orange blossom cardamom knots. Enormous macarons.

The bar in back quietly has some of the best cocktails in town.

Biggest tequila selection in VA. Get the tres leches, and go on Thursdays to hear Vincent + Berto.

Hellboy. And any of their sandwiches. Get the zeppole with a side of scorpion pepper honey.

The kindest people, great wine, beautiful setting.

You haven’t had fried chicken like this.

Get the prezzant. Also: underrated spot for great sandwiches.

Most inventive fast casual I’ve ever had. Delicious Asian fusion.

Approachable, friendly, terrific wine bar.

Really fun fusion.

Light, excellent Italian lunch.

Tied with Eem in Portland for my favorite Thai in the US.

Burrata e ham, all the pastas, their house amaro, their service…it’s all perfection.

Tell me you’ve had better New York pizza.

Not a hotel. Terrific cocktails.

Cheap covers to see insane musicians on the later time block.

Negroni + lasagna + fish.

Best Italian meal I’ve ever had.

Chill spot, terrific Neapolitan pizza and excellent wine selection.

Unique, inventive, memorable, with terrific service.

Japanese Jewish fusion. Really fun and well done.

It’s a local chain, and it’s terrific! Best fresh, fast-casual, cheap lunch in NYC.

Super solid late night food in Williamsburg at a bar that’s lively but not screaming-loud.

Kindest people. Some of the most unique and delicious baked goods I’ve had.

I forget the taco truck that’s parked next door, but the combo is my fave place for breakfast and hanging/working in Austin.

Outstanding Korean.

Some of the best jazz I’ve seen anywhere.

Salmon dip. Salmon BLT. Aslan beers. I could live here.

Outrageous baked goods.

One of the most unique and delicious burgers I’ve ever had.

Tied with Pusadee in Pittsburgh for best Thai I’ve had in the US.

Laid back, terrific Italian.

A plant shop, bookstore, brewery, and restaurant that somehow pulls off all 4.

Some of my favorite sandwiches anywhere.

Unique breakfast and lunch sandwiches with terrific coffee.

A true Chinese restaurant.

One of the best breakfast sandwiches I’ve ever had.

Best tacos I’ve ever had? Maybe.

Okay maybe it’s these.

Outstanding seafood and beer selection.

Oh my the sandwiches.

Bourdain was right.