Downtown Fredericksburg's intimate culinary experience.
While Rehana's A Gathering Place is taking a break, we are still offering our delicious meals for pick-up through our Full Service Catering and Food Truck. Check out our website for more details. We will be offering Dinner for Four every week. Hope to serve you soon and check your email for more news!
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There is a lot more to say than this and in time, it will come. For now, Rick and I want to say thank you, thank you, and thank you. This girl had a dream to open Rehana's as a tribute to my parents, specifically, my mother. I wanted to share my heritage, my upbringing, my faith, my passion for food and drink, my lifelong charge to serve, and most of all, to gather community for the greater good. Humbly speaking, I think we did it. It has been an honor to see you, hear you, know you, and to serve you.
From the first day that we opened, we have had the support of everyone one of you who walked through our doors. Most local, some wanderers, many regulars, and all gracious. In the early days, it was just Rick as the Bartender and me as the Chef.
As we grew, we added to our staff and our customer base. I am not sure which time I liked better- the hurried days of he and I walking to the restaurant- to open for dinner-- we live 4 blocks away or the more planned out events: cooking classes, murder mysteries, celebratory brunches, wine dinners, bourbon dinners, bbqs and seafood boils on the Patio, receptions for local artists, holiday parties, business meetings, team building events, trivia, karaoke, art classes, or my absolute favorite- private dinners celebrating birthdays, engagements, babies, or anything worth celebrating- and really isn't everything worth celebrating?
We have made so many new friends in these past two years- almost- we are four months shy. A few months ago, after my surgery (brain), we decided that it may be time to truly slow down and regroup. We met the amazing Chef Maria of Let's Break Bread and she will now be running the restaurant with her own flair under that same name. Her's is a similar story as mine and her passion for food and community is unsurpassed. We both even have three daughters! Rick and I are so happy to be the smallest part of her realizing her dream by bringing her home cooking to everyone in and around Fredericksburg!
When you support a small business, you truly are supporting the ambitions of the person or persons who have the desire and hope to succeed. For my parents some 50 years ago, that support allowed for them to raise a family and send their kids off to college (without loans- our college fund came from a good weekend of sales-- It was University of Maryland and one semester was about $2000. (insert loud sigh here)). For me, it allowed the time I needed to be in their presence, spiritually, as I delved into something (other than real estate) which fuels me. For Maria and Let's Break Bread, it will bring amazing food and hospitality from a dreamer with a plan.
In collaboration with Let's Break Bread, we are still operating Rehana's Catering and Events and the Food Truck. And...spoiler alert, we will be re-opening just around the corner as an Event Space where you can book some of the same fabulous events you have come to enjoy like our infamous wine and bourbon (and tequila and whiskey and- well you know) dinners or our super fun murder mysteries or you can just enjoy Rehana's food by booking the space and having us cater which can include the Rick's Rita or the 615, or as he is constantly told, his "best in the area Whiskey Sour."
For now, we are headed to NY to watch our youngest daughter marry her high school sweetheart and to take some time to reconnect with our family, friends, and especially our puppies, Eli and Roxie and hopefully, by Late Spring, we will be inviting you to a Grand Opening of our newest endeavor.
Until then, please visit Let's Break Bread at 104 Wolfe St. right across from the Sophia St. garage and enjoy! We are headed there NOW!
"April in Paris" Afternoon TeaSat, Apr 26Location is TBD
Pierogi Making ClassWed, May 21Fredericksburg
Indian Cooking ClassWed, May 28Location is TBD
Wine and Chocolate PairingThu, May 29Location is TBD