Bring Your Cooler
You’ll want to collect some of the
scrumptious local bounty served by
Staunton’s innovative chefs
LOCAVORE EXCURSIONS
Barren Ridge Vineyards •
A former apple orchard, Barren
Ridge employs only a local
workforce, using local grapes.
984 Barren Ridge Rd.,
Fishersville, Va.;
540-248-3300
MeadowCroft Farm • Delicious
homemade pickles and condiments.
404 Glebe School Rd.,
Swoope, Va.; 540-886-5249;
meadowcroftfarm.com
Polyface • Joel and Teresa
Salatin’s farm (of The Omnivore’s
Dilemma fame) features “lunatic”
farm tours, meats, poultry and eggs.
Pure Meadows Lane, Swoope;
540-885-3590; polyfacefarms.com
Queen City Brewing • Create
your own beer, soda or wine. Recipes and flavoring on the premises.
834 Spring Hill Rd.; 540-213-8014;
Top: A summer
concert at Trinity
Church. Right:
Beverley Street in
the historic business
district. Below:
Staunton’s iconic
clock tower.
PICNIC
Cranberry’s Grocery & Eatery •
Terrific breakfasts and box lunches.
7 S. New St.; 540-885-4755;
gocranberrys.com
George Bowers Grocery • Stop
in for your picnic essentials.
614 W. Beverley St.; 540-255-6811;
georgebowersgrocery.com
Staunton Farmers Market •
Fresh produce and homemade
goods. Saturdays from 7 a.m. to
noon. Wharf Parking Lot;
540-332-3802;
safarmersmarket.com
in to launch the city’s first farm-to-fork
bistro, Staunton Grocery, using the fresh
agrarian resources that other regions can
only import.
“When I called the farmers and told
them I wanted to source them for my
restaurant, they didn’t believe me,”
Boden recalls. “No one had approached
them before.” Nowadays, a chalkboard
in the bistro lists his rotating roster of
local producers.
Suddenly, every eatery in town was
promoting the local fare they had always
purchased from the biweekly farmers
market—where everything originates
from within 50 miles. Prominent chefs
began arriving in Staunton. Lund
promptly tossed aside his apron at the
Inn at Little Washington and took over
