It opened just weeks before the pandemic. This month, The Rustic Spoon celebrated a year in business
and last updated 2021-02-23 18:46:02-05
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - You ll have to drag me out of here kicking and screaming.
That s what Ryan Hines says every time News 3 visits The Rustic Spoon.and it s been a lot over the past year.
Hines and his two longtime friends, Nick Pogue and Jay Kulas, built the restaurant from the ground up and opened it February 12, 2020 as a brunch spot for the Thoroughgood, Chic s Beach and Ocean Park areas of Virginia Beach. Days earlier, Hines had just celebrated the birth of his second child.