Charlottesville Food

From the early days of ThomasJefferson’s Garden Book at Monticelloto the hustle and bustle of the modern City Market on Water Street,Charlottesville has an illustrious culinary history. The city’s cuisine ischaracterized by a delight in locally raised ingredients. The locavorementality appears at all levels of Charlottesville’s food industry, includingthe nationally acknowledged methods of Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farms, thesourcing of local pork for Chipotle’s Charlottesville location and theaccessibility of regional ingredients everywhere from Whole Foods Market toonline favorite Relay Foods. Author and food enthusiast Casey Ireland exploreshow Charlottesville’s residents have created a food culture that is all theirown.