Marisa Marsey

Mar 25, 2024 | visitvirginia.guide | Marisa Marsey

By Marisa MarseyExtremists can make the world more dangerous, but there is one who’s making it more delicious: über-baker Connie Weis. Her platform is chocolate, and her new cookbook 50 More Extreme Brownies takes a deep dive into the same dark obsession that drove her first treatise on over-the-top treats in 2014, Extreme Brownies.

Sep 1, 2023 | coastalvirginiamag.com | Marisa Marsey |Betsy DiJulio

Pharrell’s Something in the Water wasn’t the only major Beach comeback this year. The Belvedere Coffee Shop & Diner has been resurrected in The Moxy Virginia Beach Oceanfront, two dozen blocks from where it was founded.

Aug 31, 2023 | coastalvirginiamag.com | Marisa Marsey |Betsy DiJulio |Hannah Serrano

Downtown Norfolk’s Granby Street is buzzy with word that Codex, a haven for haute cuisine that’s down-to-earth and accessible, is doing lunch. But to be precise, Gunner & Marley’s by Codex is doing it. Chef-owner Ian Hock gave his counter-service luncheonette in the garage-door-fronted space housing Codex a distinct moniker to signal that it’s even more informal than his easygoing dinner (and monthly brunch) destination. Playing up just how relaxed it is, he named it after his two pit bull rescues.

Jul 1, 2023 | coastalvirginiamag.com | Marisa Marsey

May 18, 2023 | coastalvirginiamag.com | Marisa Marsey