Talking food with FourThreeFork

If you have not caught the food vibes in Charlottesville by now, you have not lived fully, and FourThreeFork is here to help.

FourThreeFork is a new online publication that is making the effort to review Charlottesville’s best restaurants that won’t break the bank for us UVA kids.

We interviewed Stephanie Monica, a founding contributor, about the publication. She said that this all began “in a digital publishing class with Professor Jane Friedman, and our class project was to start and keep up with an online publication throughout the semester.”

Why this subject? “We knew that we wanted to focus on food because many of us are passionate about eating in Charlottesville.”

Yes, this is true…food is always bae

With the topic in place, then came the name. Stephanie said, “someone suggested we use Charlottesville’s phone area code 434 because many of our readers would identify with that.”

Stephanie and the other 20 UVA Media Studies majors, “are in charge of the entire site, not just writing segments, but also the maintenance of the site, marketing it, and making sure that our design fits with the message we are trying to send.

“Each class period we look at the articles and videos that were published the week before, and critique what we’ve done to try to increase the quality of our site for the next week.”

Stephanie’s favorite article so far is a feature with a first-year student named Sherman Tabor who took her to Ace Biscuit and Barbecue.

Ace: not your father’s hardware store

Stephanie tells us that “there are a lot of hidden secrets about restaurants in Charlottesville, and our mission is to share those secrets with the public while giving them money-conscious options.”

So definitely check out their site. They have a calendar of all of the deals going on that day.

I signed up for the emails about the deals too, because food is too good to have to fork out $20 every time.