By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke (Va.) Times
Jan. 1, 2009
Summary: Bull & Bones Brewhaus and Grill officially opens today amid fanfare for the $1.8 million business
BLACKSBURG — Today the keen anticipation of microbrew fanatics will end when Bull & Bones Brewhaus and Grill opens for its first lunch service at 11 a.m., several hours before the Virginia [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
March 17, 2007 
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GALAX — Food and travel writers dining at one of the world’s best restaurants, the Inn at Little Washington just outside the nation’s capital, would be expected to debate the complexities of Chef Patrick O’Connell’s $165 prix fixe [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
July 26, 2005
Summary: Brick oven pizza draws students, while homemade pasta draws a local chef.
BLACKSBURG — All those guys you see tossing pizza dough in New York restaurants, ah, they’re just showing off, according to Viktor Plumbi, head pizza maker at Ceritano’s Ristorante, Blacksburg’s newest Italian restaurant.
Throwing the dough makes it [...]

By Tonia Moxley
The Roanoke Times
Jan. 20, 2007
BLACKSBURG — The sight of customers eating her food made worthwhile for Haregewin Bekele the two years of dogged work, fearful tears, long hours and constant prayers it took to open the New River Valley’s first Ethiopian restaurant.
In fact, feeding people “is like a drug to me. I love [...]