• Love Shack (in the Hub)
• VA Barbeque (across the street)
• Bright Spot Coffee (across the street)
• Final Gravity (craft beer across the street)
• Cary Street Burgers (down the street)
• Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens (across the street - 3 places inside – Buffet, Garden Cafe, and Tea House)
• HobNob (one block to the west)
• Eat 33 (down Hilliard Ave.)
• Pho 79 (beside Eat 33)
• Dunkin Donuts (Staples Mill Rd.)
• Shelly’s Comida (Staples Mill beside Dunkin')
• Pulp Fiction (coffee shop down Lakeside Ave.)
• Five Guys (Stuart's Crossing at VA Center Commons on Rt 1)
• O’Charleys (VA Center Commons, Rt 1)
• Buffalo Wild Wings (VA Center Commons, Rt 1)
• Q Barbeque (VA Center Commons, Rt 1)
• Plaza Azteca (VA Center Commons, Rt 1)
• Panera (VA Center Commons, Rt 1)
• Starbucks (VA Center Commons, Rt 1)

Places to visit (within a 25-mile radius):

• Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens (across the street)

• Bryan Park (On Lakeside Ave.)

• VMFA (VA Museum Fine Arts)

• Science Museum of Virginia

• Children’s Museum of Richmond

Events (throughout the year):

• Farmer’s Market (Wednesday mornings during the season) 

• Holly Jolly (in Lakeside in November)

• Lewis Ginter Plant sale (biannual)

• Our own New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day Demo Days (Dec 31st and Jan1st)

• Our own April Birthday/Anniversary celebration (beginning of April)