Chesterfield County and Its Tri-Cultural Cuisine
I am a huge fan of food. I love to cook and I love to eat out. When I go out to eat I prefer to do something different each time. Unfortunately for me (and quite possibly a large number of Chesterfield Co. residents) the types of cuisine available close to me are extremely limited. It boils down to Asian (be it Chinese or Japanese steak house), mexican or tex-mex, and Italian (represented largely by low budget pizzarias). Not a lot of variety there. Especially when you consider that places just a little ways away from home (Richmond, Short Pump) are host to a veritable cornucopia of cuisines.
Is there something about the chesterfield area that deters restaurateurs from opening ethnically diverse eateries? I’d love to know if there were. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find any legitimate reason why we don’t have, say, a Thai restaurant or maybe Indian, French, or German. The bottom line is that someone needs to bring in some diversity. Alas, I am not a cook (at least not of restaraunt quality) otherwise I would take it upon myself. Consider this my official plea for a change of pace in the Chesterfield restaurant community.
