New Richmond Restaurants in 2019 — Openings, Closings, Coming Soon

Updated: December 31

This is a list of Richmond Restaurants that opened, closed or are coming soon in 2019. If you hear of something that’s not listed leave it in the comments. Also if you’re interested in knowing who owns two or more restaurants in the Richmond area view this post.

See 2020 Openings and Closings
See 2018 Openings and Closings

Openings (72)

1. Hot Chick (Old River City Diner)
2. Fire & Hops (Old Stuzzi)
3. Tabol Brewing
4. The Butterbean Market & Cafe
5. Restaurant Adarra (Old Rogue/Rogue Gentleman)
6. First Watch (Old Bertucci’s)
7. Mix at Hutch Bar + Eatery
8. Mind Your Belly Deli
9. Chicago’s Pizza With A Twist (Old Big Al’s Sports Bar & Grill)
10. Salty Pit Smokehouse Co
11. The Pit and The Peel — Short Pump
12. Mahogany Sweets (Old Nettie’s Naturally)
13. Charlotte’s Southern Deli and Tapas (Old La Parisienne)
14. Duck Donuts — Altria Theater
15. Benny Ventano’s (Old Continental Divide)
16. Potbelly Sandwich Shop — Scott’s Addition
17. Fatty Smokes: A BBQ Joint
18. Skrimp Shack
19. Habit Burger – Midlothian
20. Maple Bourbon
21. Coco + Hazel
22. Plant Baz Burrito Bar (Old Sofra Mediterranean Grill)
23. Table Two Fifty (Old Shula’s Steak House)
24. The Mantu (Old Burger Bach)
25. The Annex
26. Bateau
27. Switch
28. Poor Boys of RVA (Old Flora / Balliceaux)
29. Cafe Clang
30. Oak & Apple (Old Castanea)
31. Scuffletown Garden (Old Strawberry Street Cafe) — Closed
32. Sheep Hill Bistro (Old Magpie) — Closed
33. Carmela’s (Old Halligan Bar and Grill)
34. Stoplight Gelato
35. Tipsy Cupcakes RVA
36. Brewer’s Waffles
37. Pulp Fiction RVA
38. Dogtown Brewing
39. Hotel Greene
40. The Bombay Co.
41. Riverbend Coffee Co. (Old Captain Buzzy’s Beanery)
42. Bright Spot Coffee
43. Grisette
44. NAMA
45. Fuzzy Cactus
46. Donuts Company
47. Park Lane Tavern
48. Island Shrimp Co.
49. Crafted
50. Rusty Taco
51. True’s Cultural Kitchen (Old KuRu Ethiopian)
52. Stump’s Pig & Pint (Old Jackon’s Beer Garden & Smokehouse)
53. Parterre (Old The Urban Farmhouse)
54. Soul Taco (Shockoe Slip)
55. Organic Krush Lifestyle Eatery — Short Pump
56. Chicken Salad Chick — Glen Allen
57. O’Toole’s Restaurant & Pub — Charter Colony
58. Gersi (Old Swan Dive)
59. Crazy Thai Fusion Restaurant (Old Elephant Thai — VCU)
60. Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co.
61. Soul N’ Vinegar — ICA Abby Moore Cafe (Old Ellwood Thompson’s Cafe)
62. Frontier by Alamo
63. Casa del Barco — Chesterfield Town Center
64. Izzy’s Kitchen (Old Little Saint)
65. Kirin Asian Cuisines (Old J Koji & Boka Tako Bar)
66. Pink Flamingo (Old Pasture)
67. Bartizan (Rebranded Wine Loft)
68. Texas Roadhouse —Midlothian
69. The Angry Mussels Italian Restaurant (Old Kitchen on Cary)
70. Wong’s Tacos — Greengate
71. Pho Luca (Old Hai Y’all)

Coming Soon (30)

If you see a restaurant in this section that has already opened please let me know in the comments below or send a tweet to @echadwilliams.

1. Blanchard’s Coffee — Forest Hill
2. Burgerim — Nuckols Place
3. Burgerim — Swift Creek Place
4. Burgerim — Winterfield Crossing
5. Biz Buzz
6. Black Market Barbecue
7. Cabo (Old Pasture)
8. Capital Burger and Dogs
9. Captain Don Julio (Old Sino American Cafe)
10. Charm School Study Hall — Forest Hill
11. Charred — Shoppes at Rutland Place
12. Charred — Swift Creek Place
13. Charm School — Forest Hill
14. Chicken Salad Chick #2
15. Chopt Creative Salad Co. — James Center
16. Chopt Creative Salad Co. — Short Pump Station
17. Claudia’s Bake Shop
18. Ginger Juice – Union Hil
19. Hai Ky Mi Gia
20. Honest Restaurant (Old The Green Leaf Vegetarian)
21. Hot Chick — Winterfield Crossing
22. Hot For Pizza — (Old Sheep Hill Cafe)
23. Jay’s Sports Lounge (Old Fox & Hound Sports Tavern)
24. Lolita’s (Old Don’t Look Back & Buon Giorno Pizzeria)
25. Pepe’s Mexican Restaurant — Forest Hill
26. PBR — Shoppes at Rutland Place
27. Revel
28. Tijuana Flats — West Broad Marketplace
29. The Veil Brewing Co — Forest Hill
30. Wood & Iron Game Day Restaurant (Old Infuzion)

Closings (37)

1. Grimaldi’s Pizzeria
2. The Cake Bar Cafe
3. Ledo Pizza & Pasta
4. Extreme Pizza — VCU
5. Authentico’s Kitchen
6. Urban Farmhouse — Linden Row
7. Sofra Mediterranean Grill
8. Pie Five Pizza — Willow Lawn
9. Kona Grill
10. Urban Farmhouse — Rocketts Landing
11. Captain Buzzy’s Beanery
12. Swan Dive
13. Shula’s Steak House
14. Havana ’59 — West End
15. Matchbox — Short Pump
16. Dickey’s BBQ Pit
17. Pasture
18. Travinia Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar 
19. Elephant Thai — VCU
20. Kobe Japanese Steaks & Sushi
21. Jackon’s Beer Garden & Smokehouse
22. Alexander’s BBQ
23. KuRu Ethiopian
24. Champion Brewing Co
25. Happy Empanada
26. Little Saint
27. Duck Donuts —Willow Lawn
28. Pearl Raw Bar (Re-branding to new concept)
29. Emilio’s (Re-branding to The Richmonder Public House)
30. Mean Bird
31. Baja Bean Co.
32. Hai Y’all
33. The Melt RVA
34. Cha Cha’s Southwest Kitchen & Bar 
35. Scuffletown Garden
36. Plant Baz Burrito Bar
37. Greek Feast