vol. 287 / Top ChefExploring and celebrating the place we all love to call home.
VOL. 287 / Top Chef
Meet this week's guest editor, Brittanny Anderson. A born-and-raised Richmonder, Brittanny is the celebrated chef and owner of Metzger Bar & Butchery, Bar Buoy, Black Lodge, and The Pink Room. She is a two-time semi-finalist for the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mid-Atlantic and has been named StarChefs’ Mid-Atlantic Restaurateur of the Year.
On television, you can spot her competing on Bravo’s Top Chef (Season 18) and Food Network’s Tournament of Champions, Iron Chef America, Last Bite Hotel, 24 in 24, and Triple Threat, where she took down Bobby Flay’s Titans. Her restaurants and recipes have been featured in Food & Wine, Garden & Gun, Elle, and Bon Appétit.
This week, we’re honored to have Brittanny share her favorite ways to explore and celebrate this delicious city we all love to call home.
Take it away, Brittanny ...
Volunteer with Beyond Boundaries
One of my favorite groups to work with in Richmond, Beyond Boundaries, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to guiding participants with disabilities, veterans, underserved youth, and recovery programs on outdoor adventures. Help someone learn to fish, kayak, or rock climb! Shep Roeper, Executive Director of Beyond Boundaries, has created a really special group that shares our beautiful outdoors and wildlife here in Richmond with those who have had limited access to it in the past, and it is truly special to get to be a part of it!
Hook up with one of the terrific guides at Current Culture Fly, or go hang with Richmond Fly Women and learn to tie your own flies, cast a rod, and ultimately land a monster right here in the city! Current Culture Fly is a guide service working out of Richmond that takes pride in making fly fishing accessible and fun. And Richmond Fly Women is a community for women anglers of all skill levels who just love to fish. Established in 2025, the group’s mission is to see more women on the water, solo and together. Join the group for social and active meetups where participants fish, tie flies, and learn from one another.
Visit my favorite neighborhood in Richmond and take a walk filled with history, cocktails, and yummy snacks! Visit brunch spots like Alewife or Metzger, sit on the patio at The Hill Café and chat with the neighborhood regulars, grab a slice at Pizza Bones, browse the Italian goodies at Giorno Market, and then take in the gorgeous architecture of historic Church Hill.
Richmond chef and restaurateur Brittanny Anderson recently set sail on a new culinary adventure with the opening of Bar Buoy, a Chesapeake Bay–inspired eatery in Scott’s Addition. Drawing on her family lineage of watermen, Brittanny has brought casual, fun, beach-shack vibes to Richmond’s dining scene. Think raw bar, steamers, crab cakes, beer-battered cod, Chesapeake Bay shrimp toast, and plenty of boat drinks and nostalgic cocktails like fancy crushes and buttered popcorn rum and Cokes, plus a curated non-alcoholic soda lineup. Head over to 3200 Rockbridge St. for a little bit of the Bay right here in the River City.
