We just moved from Williamsburg down into Newport News (both in Hampton Roads). Whilc Williamsburg has a surprising amount of stuff for its size - it’s a tourist town so that helps - still, the sheer increase in the amount of cuisines available to us down here is amazing. I’m having to limit our eating out due to budget needs, but there’s so much I want to try, and so much I’ve been wanting access to forever. lol.
We apparently have a couple of places (one that just opened) that are copies of one of the styles of bodega from NYC where they basically take a somewhat limited set of ingredients and combine them as many ways as they can, giving you like breakfast foods of all sorts, heroes, halal platters, sometimes fried seafood and other stuff. But they also do things like sell Boar’s Head sliced deli meat that they use on the sandwiches - it’s actually cheaper than I can get from the grocery stores.
And yeah - Sun and Moon deli in Newport News - you can find their menu if you wanna drool. Their lamb-over-rice is so tender, and everything is seasoned amazingly - the rice has some seasoning I can’t place but is delicious, and the “white sauce” and “red sauce” they put - the white is some sort of tzatziki in style, and the red is a tomato based smooth salsa but with some sort of middle eastern spices… oh man, I’ve had two since we’ve moved here and I so want to order another one right now! lol
I only made it to Newport News like three times in the six years I lived in Norfolk. I hated Norfolk and the whole 700 Club PETA headquarters tidewater hell hole area. But I will never complain about the food. There was always some place that could fix a craving no matter how obscure it might be.
I need lamb and ziki right now.
Word.
We just moved from Williamsburg down into Newport News (both in Hampton Roads). Whilc Williamsburg has a surprising amount of stuff for its size - it’s a tourist town so that helps - still, the sheer increase in the amount of cuisines available to us down here is amazing. I’m having to limit our eating out due to budget needs, but there’s so much I want to try, and so much I’ve been wanting access to forever. lol.
We apparently have a couple of places (one that just opened) that are copies of one of the styles of bodega from NYC where they basically take a somewhat limited set of ingredients and combine them as many ways as they can, giving you like breakfast foods of all sorts, heroes, halal platters, sometimes fried seafood and other stuff. But they also do things like sell Boar’s Head sliced deli meat that they use on the sandwiches - it’s actually cheaper than I can get from the grocery stores.
And yeah - Sun and Moon deli in Newport News - you can find their menu if you wanna drool. Their lamb-over-rice is so tender, and everything is seasoned amazingly - the rice has some seasoning I can’t place but is delicious, and the “white sauce” and “red sauce” they put - the white is some sort of tzatziki in style, and the red is a tomato based smooth salsa but with some sort of middle eastern spices… oh man, I’ve had two since we’ve moved here and I so want to order another one right now! lol
I hope you can get your lamb and ziki soon. :)
I only made it to Newport News like three times in the six years I lived in Norfolk. I hated Norfolk and the whole 700 Club PETA headquarters tidewater hell hole area. But I will never complain about the food. There was always some place that could fix a craving no matter how obscure it might be.