Tazza Kitchen Scott's Addition

Tazza Kitchen is a small Virginia and Carolina group built around wood-fired cooking, and its Scott's Addition location on Roseneath Road serves the district that has become Richmond's brewery centre. That context shapes why it appears in an alcohol-free guide: Scott's Addition is a hard place to spend an evening without drinking, because almost everything in it is organised around a taproom.

Tazza is a restaurant first. It runs a genuine lunch and dinner service with a break in between, and the room is oriented around tables and food rather than a bar and a queue. For a group where one person is not drinking, that structure quietly solves the problem: the evening has a purpose beyond the glass, and nobody is counting rounds.

The bar keeps non-alcoholic drinks on the standing list rather than offering to improvise, and the Centerfold is the one Virginia food press names specifically. A single documented drink is a modest programme and the grade reflects that honestly — this is a restaurant that has thought about non-drinkers, not a destination for the drink itself.

The wood-fired oven is the kitchen's centre of gravity and the menu is built around it, which suits a long table and a slow evening — the format that works best when only part of the group is drinking. The schedule is worth reading before you go, because it is more complicated than most: Monday is dinner only from 4:30pm; Tuesday to Friday split into a lunch service from 11:30am and dinner from 4:30pm; Saturday runs straight through from 11am to 10pm; and Sunday splits again around a 2:30pm close and a 4:30pm reopening. Arriving at three in the afternoon on a weekday will find the doors shut. Once inside, it is among the easiest rooms in Scott's Addition for a mixed group.