Back home after some more map-trotting adventures with some interesting tongue twisters and pleasers including xochitl soup.

More restaurants closing in RVA (including one i've been meaning to try for some time) ! the comments were rather interesting...
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/local/article/REST06_20100105-221409/315598/

I noticed that I had written about 5 of these places on this blog !! Is it a bad sign :)? I guess in some minor way, I got to document fragments of recent richmond dining history.
The RTD piece made me think of my very first post, when, prior to moving to RVA, I was quite bothered by the proliferation of chain restaurants on the "best of" lists on Richmond magazine. These closings do not portend well for a locavore either ...