There is a group called the Virginia Beach Pepper Lovers Club who have a website at: http://www.pepperloversclub.com/ It seems sort of outdated and neglected at the moment, but I recall a few years ago it was loosely connected to some restaurant. Don't see any references now except to the Ft. Story Officers Club... =Mark At 05:15 PM 10/25/01 -0400, T. Matthew Evans wrote: >>I believe there's a place in Virginia Beach also... >> >> > >=Mark -- > >I grew up in Virginia Beach and my family still lives there -- it's also the >place where Chris Schlesinger (of the East Coast Grill) got his start >(washing dishes at Blue Pete's in Pungo, about 5 miles further out into the >country from where I grew up). > >At any rate, I still visit my family pretty often and my father and brother >are both also chile heads -- if there is any way you could jog your memory >with respect to the restaurant in VB, I would be very appreciative (my >brother is a cook at a very nice place in Norfolk and is generally >up-to-date with the "scene" there, so if you could even come up with a >partial name, we could figure it out). > >Thanks. > >Matt > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >T. Matthew Evans >Graduate Research Assistant >Geosystems Group, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering >Georgia Institute of Technology >URL: www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte964w >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >