I still like the gold leaf paint accenting the building. It is a very different look than the deep red from Lola's tenure and hopefully they painted away the culinary stink of BB's.
Speaking of eats, Scott and I hit up Coleman's Soul Food up in Five Points yesterday at lunch time. This shot was lifted from back in the day when it was Ethel's House of Soul. The interior could be described as spartan if one were to be generous. Despite the favorable writeup in the Westword, I have to say I prefer Tom's Home Cookin' around the corner. I guess to be fair the two places are in different categories, Tom's is Southern food and Coleman's is Detroit Soul . . .
I am somewhat spoiled when it comes to Southern Food and fried chicken. Between having Catherine cook it at home when I was growing up, annual stops at Wilber's BBQ on the way to the beach, Mama Dip's in Chapel Hill, and the Toliver House Restaurant in historic Gordonsville, VA. Gordonsville is the self-proclaimed Fried Chicken Capitol of the Universe, but unfortunately a little digging tells me that the Toliver House changed ownership and no longer has the Sunday evening fried chicken special, in fact they no longer have fried chicken on the menu.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . . there are windows in the house across the street.
I predict a facade of 75% stucco, minimum.
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What about Allen & Son's?
Dr. George W. Bagby, editor of the Native Virginian, gave Gordonsville the title of "the chicken leg center of the universe" in 1869. From Civil War days until the Great Depression, the newly freed black women of Gordonsville met the trains on the two main lines that met in Gordonsville with chicken, pies, and cakes, etc., and they became famous to travelers from all over the country for their fried chicken for over 70 years. The title is not "self proclaimed".
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