NORFOLK IN 36 HOURS Your adventure begins now! DAY ONE FRIDAY AFTERNOON Start your exploration of the city at VisitNorfolk, the convention & visitors bureau, located at 232 East Main Street in downtown Norfolk. Pick up free brochures, maps, calendars, a visitor guide and more! Stroll around the streets of downtown, check out MacArthur Center Mall or hop on Virginia’s first light rail system to see some sites by train. For dinner, try one of the many chef-owned restaurants along Granby Street, or “restaurant row,” such as the award-winning Byrd & Baldwin Bros. Steakhouse which serves only grain fed Midwestern all natural beef aged on site. Looking for seafood? At Todd Jurich’s Bistro you’ll find the best local oysters, salmon and tuna. DAY TWO LATE NIGHT Rolling Stone magazine readers recently voted The NorVa, located in downtown Norfolk, as the number one Venue That Rocks the hardest in a poll ranking top live music spots in the United States. The NorVA, known by music enthusiasts for offering an intimate venue with world-class performances, also ranked number 16 on a list of the 20 Best Big Rooms in another Rolling Stone magazine poll. SATURDAY MORNING Move on to historic Ghent for breakfast at the Handsome Biscuit. Try over 10 different biscuit sandwiches made from sweet potatoes. Eating with both hands will not even handle the size of this biscuit. Spend the rest of the morning & afternoon antiquing in the historic Ghent area. Some of the most popular hot spots are La Marche, Morgan House Antiques Gallery and Three Swallows Imports. Break for lunch at the popular No Frill Grill fea- turing chef-created lunch specials & delicious homemade desserts. After lunch, head over to Doumar’s for ice cream. Abe Doumar created the first waffle cone at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. AFTERNOON Spend the rest of the afternoon at the Chrysler Museum of Art & Glass Studio. The museum has nearly 100 galleries for 30,000 works of art from around the world. The Chrysler Museum Glass Studio, which is open, sits adjacent to the Chrysler Museum of Art in a modern, 7,000-square-foot building and sup- ports artists working in a variety of glassmaking processes, including blown glass, casting, fusing, flame working and cold working. The facility is the only one of its kind in the entire Mid-Atlantic region, and spotlights the Chrysler’s extensive glass collection.