In the culinary world, there exists a special category of restaurants that don’t need fancy decor or trendy menus to draw crowds – they simply let their food do all the talking.
Rick’s Cafe in Virginia Beach is the embodiment of this philosophy, a place where the chicken fried steak has achieved such legendary status that devoted fans willingly embark on multi-hour road trips just for a single, gravy-smothered serving.
The brick building with its green metal roof sits unassumingly along a Virginia Beach thoroughfare, the kind of place you might drive past a hundred times before curiosity finally compels you to stop.
That would be a mistake you’d regret for years – especially once you discover what’s waiting inside…