Takeout Tuesday: Ray Ray s at the Mayflower brings Filipino, Hawaiian favorites to Virginia Beach
and last updated 2021-04-13 09:08:47-04
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Ever wish you could just wake up in Hawaii?
Well, you can! Sort of.at Ray Ray s at the Mayflower; a breakfast and lunch joint serving up traditional breakfast dishes along with some Filipino and Hawaiian favorites.
The man behind it all is longtime chef Ray Ray Labuen. I worked at a lot of cool places around here, said the chef of 30 years. Duck-In, Belvedere, Doc Taylor s.
Now, he s got his own spot right on 34th Street at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront, situated at the bottom of the high-rise Mayflower apartment building.
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.