For some unknown reason Virginia Beach restaurants are stuck in the 90s. Enter a Virginia Beach restaurant and you will be greeted to the sounds of the 90s. Mostly the alternative rock stylings of bands like Sublime, Blink 182, Goo Goo Dolls, and the like.
What is interesting is I have a distinct memory of the 90s in Virginia Beach. I remember standing in The Sugar Plum Bakery and the song playing was The Macarena. If you lived in the 90s that song is now stuck in your head, and it was everywhere. It was the inescapable horror of our generation.
As much as I enjoy hearing Barenaked Ladies while having brunch on the Boardwalk it isn’t what restaurants were playing in the 90s. It was all Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, Ricky Martin, and Britney Spears. 90s alternative rock wasn’t the sounds of the commercial dining industry in the 90s.
It does show us something about ourselves. How our memories work. The soundtrack of our lives during the real 90s was very different than the fabricated version at Another Broken Egg Cafe and Bistro.
I also don’t understand why every restaurant has the same 90s alternative soundtrack. We should mix it up sometimes. Give us some jazz while we munch on our avocado toast or maybe a little Cyndi Lauper with our ham and cheese sub. I do not understand Virginia Beach restaurants’ fascination with 90s alternative rock. They really should let it slide.
David Huzzard Writes 