What is Veras now?
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NorthBeachPerso
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Would someone please answer, I'd also want to know now.
Here's the website:
Here's the website:
Nuts to that. How can you start a hijackable thread that way?
Grumpy
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Good point, forgot that it was Friday and the entertainment hasn't shown up.
Going by the map in your link and looking at contact info for the Beach Club - the locations are different. It looks like the Beach Club is at the end of White Sands Dr while the Restaurant is before the road end a few hundred yards earlier.
I've had a busy morning!
Grumpy
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Vera's house was converted to a restaurant??
Don't know, it was listed as the address for the Beach Club contact info.
I found this that might clarify where it is - "The restaurant, our first restuarant in Maryland, is next to The Store on the ground floor of the Soho House building". Having never been there I don't know what the Soho building is.
That link looks bogus to me. There is no 1840 White Sands Dr under Contact Us, there is no menu, and what's up with the blather about pool tables, cue sticks and furby toys? From the rest of the site it looks like the domain got bought by some foreigner who's practicing his English. I think Vera's had that domain some years ago and changed over to verasrestaurant.net which is their current site.
John Z
if you will
LOL, the website is hilarious. One great nugget: "You have to be very humble to more forward with cooking".
The restaurant, our first restuarant in Maryland, is next to The Store on the ground floor of the Soho House building. It has an open-plan kitchen, wood oven, marble floor, red leather booth seating and an outside terrace for the summer months.
Veras Beach Club has been in Maryland since 1997, located on the water in sothern Maryland
Veras Beach Club has been in Maryland since 1997, located on the water in sothern Maryland
So I went there for lunch today. Beautiful location, got there early and walked around the little garden out front, checked out the Neptune statute, and walked over to the white house down the hill that looks like a white castle. We ran into the caretaker who apparently knew Vera back in the day and knew the history of the restaurant as well as the castle. That was kind of fascinating, When we pulled up, there was a driveway with a gate and two stone heads, that we thought were chess pieces at first glance, but I'm betting they were busts of a king and a queen. The yard has grecian type statues scattered throughout and the caretaker said the new owner lives there and the house contains an enormous amount of marble plus, dig this, an indoor swimming pool. The restaurant itself was large and empty at eleven. We sat out on the deck to eat, beautiful view of the water, boats, pretty houses with manicured lawns.
I can't say the food was altogether that great. I didn't want a full meal so I got a crab pretzel. I don't think it was real crab meat, or if it was, there wasn't much of it. The view, and the company made it all worthwhile though. And the weather was glorious - perfect day to be sitting near the water.
Attaching a history of Vera's - sounds like she was something else! (in a good way)
I can't say the food was altogether that great. I didn't want a full meal so I got a crab pretzel. I don't think it was real crab meat, or if it was, there wasn't much of it. The view, and the company made it all worthwhile though. And the weather was glorious - perfect day to be sitting near the water.
Attaching a history of Vera's - sounds like she was something else! (in a good way)
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
Vera was definitely an eccentric person, and dressed the part as well. Including the eccentricities of the decor of the restaurant back in the day. I'm sure there are many here that attended a party, or two, hosted by Vera at some point that can attest to her quirky ways. Or attended a Chamber of Commerce business after hours that Vera hosted, on many occasions. Think of a freedom loving open minded colorful clothes wearing hippie of the 70's, in her 70's. That was Vera. And everyone loved her for who she was.
Vera was definitely an eccentric person, and dressed the part as well. Including the eccentricities of the decor of the restaurant back in the day. I'm sure there are many here that attended a party, or two, hosted by Vera at some point that can attest to her quirky ways. Or attended a Chamber of Commerce business after hours that Vera hosted, on many occasions. Think of a freedom loving open minded colorful clothes wearing hippie of the 70's, in her 70's. That was Vera. And everyone loved her for who she was.
lol - big portrait of her when you first walk in.
Historybuff
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A man named George Wood used to play piano in the bar area way back in the day.
Sounds like he was a lot more than that if the article is to be believed.