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06/14/2016

Bodo’s Auction

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Here is your chance for a once-in-a-lifetime experience with Bodo’s Bagels, while helping to feed the area’s hungry. It’s The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions, presented by McGuireWoods. Along with all of the other restaurants in The Charlottesville 29, Bodo’s has created a signature experience available to whoever pledges the highest donation to The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. Thanks to the generosity of Bodo’s and Potter’s Craft Cider, the winning bid goes directly to the food bank, and each dollar donated is enough to provide four meals to the area’s hungry. So, a winning bid of, say, $3,000 would mean not just a wonderful meal for the winner and their guests, but also 12,000 more meals for the area’s hungry.

The Bodo’s signature experience for The Charlottesville 29 Restaurant Auctions:

Breakfast of Champions Brunch Party

How often do four national champion coaches come over for breakfast?

Bodo’s is the undisputed champion of fueling our area’s athletes, and the winner of its auction will enjoy a catered brunch party with four national champion UVa coaches: Brian Boland (men’s tennis), Brian O’Connor (baseball), George Gelnovatch (men’s soccer), and Julie Myers (women’s lacrosse). Bodo’s will come to the home of the auction winner and serve an enormous array of bagels, cold spreads, smoked salmon, and fixings, for the auction winner, the coaches, and up to forty guests. To add to the fun, the auction winner will receive two cases (24 bottles) of Potter’s Craft Cider award-winning ciders as well as plenty of organic juice from Lumi, including Harvest Apple and, of course, Wahoo Orange.  And, to preserve memories of this dream experience for a lucky Hoo fan, acclaimed photographer Tom McGovern will capture images of it all, including an 11 x 14 group shot of the auction winners and coaches.It’s a Breakfast of Champions with Bodo’s.

Note: The auction winner will schedule the brunch party at a time that is mutually convenient for the coaches, at a home in the Charlottesville area.

Bidding

Bidding for the Bodo’s auction ended on July 17, 2016.

Winning Bid:  $2,400

05/08/2015

Five Finds on Friday: Devin Murray

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On Fridays, we feature five food finds from local chefs and personalities.  Today’s picks come from Devin Murray, chef of the recently recharged The Whiskey Jar.  Murray’s picks:

1)  Warm Glazed and Blueberry Donuts at Spudnuts.  “I have been lucky to enjoy these donuts for twenty-five years. I am reminded of my childhood every time I stop in. Warm Glazed and Blueberry are my go to, but I love them all.”

2)  Egg and American on an Everything Bagel at Bodo’s.  “My best Bodo’s memory was the day I found out they would be serving eggs all day.”

3)  Red Hot Blues with Danger Sauce and Margaritas at Continental Divide.  “The margaritas are a great way to cool the burn of the Danger sauce. The small, loud, high energy atmosphere along with the margaritas keep me coming back.”

4)  Carne Asada and Bocadillo Jamon at MAS Tapas.  “I could eat the carne asada everyday. It is consistently my favorite dish at Mas. The Bocadillo Jamon is another favorite. The wood oven bread, garlic alioli, Jamon serrano ,and manchego cheese make a perfect sandwich.”

5)  Peanut Butter Pie at The Pie Chest.  “Baker Rachel Pennington puts a lot of love into all of her pies, but this one is my favorite. The texture of the filling is light and creamy and the thick graham cracker crust seals the deal for me as the best peanut butter pie I have ever eaten. Peanut butter fans you need this in your life.”

05/04/2015

Public’s Brunch Menu, Including Bodo’s!

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For years, we have wondered why more restaurants around town did not incorporate Bodo’s bagels into their menu.  In other cities we’ve visited, this would be a common practice.  If you’ve got a great local source of a bakery product, restaurants jump on it. And, even here in Charlottesville, restaurants proudly serve products of other food establishments, like Albemarle Baking Co. bread, Chap’s ice cream, or Gearhart’s chocolates.  The absence of Bodo’s from restaurant menus even made us wonder if Bodo’s somehow discouraged restaurants from serving their bagels.

As it turns out, that’s not the case.  Public Fish & Oyster has just rolled out a brunch menu, and while it looks great, what caught our eye was that their platter of House-cured lox includes a Bodo’s everything bagel.  Smart move.  Why take the time to make lox but then spoil it with an inferior accompaniment?  As Public chef Donnie Glass put it: “It’s one of those things I just KNOW I can’t do at comparable quality for comparable cost.”

Other options include brioche French toast, an oyster po’ boy, and shrimp & grits with house-cured slab bacon.

Public’s brunch debuted yesterday.  Just in time for Mother’s Day.