But perhaps what I loved the most were the breadsticks and cheddar cheese spread, which you were given as soon as you were seated. I loved the steak and the huge baked potato. That’s because the barn to which he referred was the Aberdeen Barn Steak House on West Broad Street. It was nearly 50 years ago that one of my best friends would frequently phone and say, “Let’s go to the Barn.” Regardless of my schedule, I’d make time for the Barn. Will the C’ville restaurant live up to those fond, decades-old memories of the Barn? Richmond food and travel writer Steve Cook takes us to the Aberdeen Barn in Charlottesville, a steakhouse that stirs memories of the old Aberdeen Barn in Richmond (may it Rest In Peace).
