(An impress dinner at Mi Vida. Photo by Rey Lopez.)
A raft of restaurants at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront’s Atlantic Park, the Pharrell Williams-backed mix use development anchored by North America’s first Wavegarden Cove surf lagoon, is sure to sate a slate of appetites. The first four to open are stunning, charismatic chains with big-city siblings. While not directly enriching our region’s unique culinary identity (as our best local indies do), they emphatically boost our profile (New York-Philadelphia-Washington, D.C.-…Virginia Beach, if you catch the drift). Here’s to a rising tide lifting all boats.
The Grill…