Along the banks of the James River floats Celebration, a 78-foot-long boat docked near Rocketts Landing. Inside is Flatheads, Richmond’s only floating restaurant. Dishing up American cuisine, Flatheads offers views of the RVA skyline, an open-air top floor and bar, and a fire pit on the bow.
2. Matt Gleason and Anita Roberts recently opened Flatheads, offering views of the RVA skyline from an open-air top floor and fire pit on the bow. The owners hope to begin giving back to the river through a series of fundraising activities.
“This area is so important to Richmond…this is where it all began,” says co-owner of Flatheads, Matthew Gleason, who most recently worked at the Bull and Bear Club. “We want to get people back down to the river. We’re excited about it and want Richmond to be too.”
Gleason says that Flatheads looks to tie its business closely to nonprofit organizations that support the river, and in the warmer months he’ll host crawfish boils on Sundays to support local causes.
Co-owner Anita Roberts says that Flatheads also hopes to help organizations that support Danlos syndrome (EDS). A topic that she is personally passionate about, EDS is an inherited connective tissue disorder. Both Roberts and Gleason hope that the area’s only floating restaurant, tied to a number of good causes, will get Richmonders to join them on the banks of the river in 2013.