Just a lovely country drive out beyond Charleston along Kanawha Falls sits the Glen Ferris Inn. This charming, romantic home has an adjacent dining space that overlooks the Kanawha River. The building has some cool history: The inn, then called Stockton's Inn, opened in 1839. Col. Aaron Stockton built the original red brick...

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Berkshire's Old Fashioned Frozen Custard has a few locations in southern West Virginia. There's the Princeton location, the Beckley location, and, finally, the Crab Orchard location. If you recall, I tried to visit this final West Virginia location before, with no success.  But today ... today I finish out the list.  Some background:...

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Breakfast food. Coffee. Fayetteville. What a beautiful combination of items, amiright? Vandal's Kitchen opened just over a year ago to serve the best coffee in the New River Gorge. Add waffles, tasty sandwiches and a sweet house, and you have one fantastic little restaurant. Over 100 years ago Abraham Vandal chose a 200...

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The unofficial end of summer is upon us. That calls for ice cream. The Stache in Fayetteville is a brightly colored ice cream shop and toy store that serves up tons of fun flavors, but their most popular is Blue Moon. When I asked, like the beer? They said nooo, it's just "blue"...

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I scream, you scream, we all scream ... for Fat Eddie's! The ice cream shop located at the Summersville Lake (technically in Mt Nebo) is open seasonally, so when I recently had to travel through the area, I had to stop while I had the chance. Well, is there anything that says simply...

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