Support Local Restaurants During the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 19, 2020 by Sara Woznicki in Life In Your 20's, life lessons, Leisure, Tweets and Mascara, Social Media, Sara's Column, Richmond Brunch Review

It’s time for us to come together for our restaurants.

Our restaurants, who accepted us as the disheveled, hungover messes of our early twenties. Our restaurants, who hosted us as we celebrated countless birthdays. Our restaurants, who have supported our charitable endeavors, donating food, money and time to charities like VCU Massey Cancer Center.

The Story of the RVA Brunch Bar

February 27, 2018 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Richmond Brunch Review

I am that hand you see in all the Instagrams holding the #RVABrunchBar. Wait. You don’t know what the #RVABrunchBar is? Well, grab a chair. You’re going to get so excited that you have to sit down. It’s a brunch-themed ice cream bar. Is there anything better in the world? I mean, probably. But it’s up there. We can all agree on that.

This March Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches, a local ice cream sandwich company, will be selling the Brunch Bar throughout Richmond. You’ll be able to find this sweet treat at multiple Richmond locations.

The bar will feature blueberry maple swirl ice cream (!!) and a French toast cookie crunch. Like I said, you need a chair! You don’t want to miss this bar – it’s only available in March, and best yet, 10% from each bar will benefit VCU Massey Cancer Center. So have two! Calories don’t count.

Dairy Queen's 75th Anniversary Did Not Happen in Davie, FL

March 25, 2015 by Cazey Williams in Cazey's Column, Humor

Last Monday was Dairy Queen's 75th anniversary or something like that. The more important thing is, they were giving away free cones.

I happened to be in Florida visiting two friends, so I relayed this joyous news to them, and we drove to DQ. Now we arrive, and it's apparent this news is not secret because everyone and their mother, father, dog, cousin, and future children are there.

We haven't been in line more than a minute when the cashier announces, "We are out of cones. We have no more free cones. The deal is over."

My First Food Review & It's Fall Themed

September 27, 2014 by Sara Woznicki in Leisure, Sara's Column, Tweets and Mascara

I've always wanted to be a food blogger because it combines my two favorite things: food and writing. I even went so far as to sign up as a food blogger from some offer on Craigslist. Shocker that one didn't work out. But I'm not taking no for an answer, so here's my first food review. In celebration of the first week of fall, it's pumpkin flavored.

I'm reviewing Dairy Queen's Pumpkin Pie Blizzard.

What you get in stores looks nothing like that.

So if I were to give this pumpkin blizzard a rating, it would be a one out of five stars. And here are all the reasons why:

The pumpkin pie is composed of two elements: the pumpkin pie filling and the crust. I know this because that's what a real pumpkin pie consists of. But here's what it tasted like in blizzard form:
- The crust tasted like, shaped like, looked like, and probably were oyster crackers.
- And the pumpkin pie filling tasted like (if I had to guess), looked like, and had the exact same consistency of pumpkin baby food.
So pause while you picture those two elements, wrapped up in some melty vanilla ice cream.
Then, add in the excessively sour taste of the baby food, coupled with the stale cracker crust, and it's just a depressing combination of food.
The worst part of the whole experience was that this isn't even what I wanted. They had run out of cookie dough. And they ran out of chocolate ice cream the previous time.
So clearly it's not meant to be, but let's get back to the most depressing thing about this whole bit:
I have been trying pumpkin everything lately, except for the fact that everywhere runs out of it. I went to Dunkin Donuts and they ran out of pumpkin flavoring for coffee. Then I went to Starbucks and they ran out of pumpkin scones. So by the time I make it to Dairy Queen and they actually have pumpkin flavored foods, and it's terrible.

But let's be honest, this set-back won't stop me on the quest for pumpkin flavored everything this autumn.