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The nonprofit FEAST, an offshoot of Slow Food Asheville, has a new home at UNC Asheville. Here are the details from the press release: FEAST, ...
The Charlotte Observer reports that Asheville-based Tupelo Honey Café has plans to open its seventh location in the city's South End neighborhood. Here's an excerpt ...
This year, the Asheville Wine & Food Festival celebrates its fifth birthday and expands its showcase of Asheville's culinary offerings. The event, which takes place ...
From the Hendersonville Times-News Underground Baking Company won the 2013 Environmental Stewardship Award from the Environmental and Conservation Organization. This is the third year a ...
Word travels fast: After just a few months in business, MG Road has already attracted the attention of Food & Wine magazine — twice, in ...
Asheville Pizza and Brewing and the Autism Society of North Carolina will present a sensory-friendly film screening to commemorate Autism Awareness Month. Here are the ...
Farm Burger is scheduled to open in the Leader Building on Patton Avenue in the coming weeks. The Atlanta-based burger restaurant offers local meats with ...
During the month of March, The Chocolate Fetish will reward blood donors at the Red Cross with vouchers for chocolate. Here are the details from ...
Katie Button, chef at Cúrate, is in the running for Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chef award in the Southeastern region. The winner is ...
Asheville's Riverbend Malt House appeared on NPR's food blog, The Salt, this afternoon. The post focuses on several small-scale malt growers around the country. Read ...
The Gluten Intolerance Group of Asheville will sponsor an educational program on Saturday, April 27, from 9 - 11 a.m. Here are the details from ...
Author Philip Ackerman-Leist will present his book, Rebuilding the Food Shed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems, on Tuesday, March 5, at ...
The James Beard Foundation named two Asheville chefs to the semifinalist list for its 2013 awards. Katie Button, chef at Cúrate, and Elliott Moss, chef ...
Local chefs, local brews, local pig. The Blackbird restaurant on Biltmore Avenue will host a farm dinner tonight. Six courses based on Heritage Farms pork ...
If you're looking for some food for your imagination, check out the Seven Sows Bourbon and Larder menu, which was released over the weekend. You ...
Learn to shake a leg from a world-class Flamenco Vivo dancer. The workshop, on Wednesday, Feb. 20, runs in conjunction with La Pasión Flamenca show ...
From the Hendersonville Times-News Article credit unknown The Hendersonville Community Co-op, a community-owned natural and organic grocery store on South Grove Street, has a healthy ...
Here's the press release from Earth Fare: Earth Fare is pleased to announce the launch of The Friends of Earth Fare Foundation. This nonprofit, charitable ...
Full announcement from Short Street Cakes: Asheville, NC, January 25, 2013: Short Street Cakes, Asheville’s source for all-natural, scratch-made, southern-style birthday cakes, wedding cakes, and ...
Looking to send a sweet gift to a soldier stationed overseas? At Tupelo Honey Cafe, buy one pecan pie to ship to a soldier, and ...
Food and Wine Magazine came to town and visited Cúrate, Wicked Weed (yes, already), Greenman, French Broad Chocolates, Table, Cucina24, MG Road and more! Below ...
The Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council is making a decisive start to the new year. Check out their plans for a Food Action Plan to improve ...
The second Craft Cocktail Experience will take place this Friday, Dec. 14, at MG Road. The events bring together local mixologists for a ticketed event ...
A group of local cheese makers has been working for almost a year to connect as the WNC Cheese Trail. They recently released the first ...
Press release From the WNCAP Asheville, NC -- Scot Wedgeworth, star of the Food Network’s reality-based wedding and special event series “Bama Glama”, will demonstrate ...
Press release from Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council Please join in celebration with the Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council for the next Meeting of the Whole. ...
Chef Mo Abreu of Chef Mo's restaurant, 900 Hendersonville Rd., will host a wine dinner featuring dishes to honor his mother and grandmother from his ...
Breweries hopping in North Carolina From the Charlotte Observer, via the Chicago Tribune by John Borsden excerpt: Erik Lars Myers has built quite a career ...
The prize for the Blue Ridge Food Ventures entrepreneurship contest, the Big Tasty, is growing. The winner of the contest will receive shelf space in ...
Details, from the "beer lover site of the Brewers Association," on the Thirsty Monk's win: "Celebrating the passion and ardor of American craft beer lovers, ...
The Asheville High School Band has received an invitation to play at the 2012 presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. They're raising money for their trip ...
Press release from UNC Asheville News Services Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania professor of psychology, presents “Food is Good (Not Bad) To Eat, and Natural ...
The Thirsty Monk on Patton Ave. is in the running to become CraftBeer.com's Great American Beer Bar of the South. The bar is competing in ...
Matha Stewart recently featured 12 Bone Smokehouse, White Duck Taco Shop, Sunny Point Café, Table and Curaté in a travel guide to Asheville, along with ...
Press release from UNCA Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania professor of psychology, presents "Food is Good (Not Bad) To Eat, and Natural Isn't Always Good" ...
Beginning Monday, Sept. 17th, Sunny Point Cafe on Haywood Road will host its ninth anniversary celebration. Here are the details from the restaurant: We will ...
Meet local producers and sample their fare through this Ingles event. Here are the details from the store: Get a “Taste of Local” on Friday, ...
12 Bones Smokehouse will host a fall-themed beer dinner in collaboration with Appalachian Vintner at their 5 Riverside Drive location. The event takes place on ...
Sycamore Cycles and the Henderson County Branch of the NC Cooperative Extension Service will host the inaugural Apple Orchard Bicycle Ecotour this weekend as part ...
Heading north next week? The High Country Plate Crawl offers a chance to sample great Boone, Blowing Rock and Valle Crucis restaurants for lunch and ...
A new Olive Garden will open its doors at 400 Airport Road in Arden on Monday, Sept. 3. Below are the details from the restaurant ...
FULL PRESS RELEASE Burgerworx, located in the Grove Arcade, will host a burger eating contest, Friday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. The restaurant will host ...
Media outlet Hendersonville Lightning reports: "The Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is accelerating plans to begin production in Mills River, moving the opening up from November ...
Community organizations working to improve WNC's local food system will meet and discuss their work with members of the Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council and the ...
From MANNA FoodBank: It started like all great ideas start: with too much coffee. One morning not too long ago, Tyler Hallock, owner of TopFloorStudio, ...
Hendersonville Times-News reports: Officials with Colorado-based Oskar Blues Brewery say the company is on track to fire up the kettles by December at its new ...
Eater.com's map show the most restaurant- and bar-dense U.S. cities — and includes the Asheville area: "The eagle-eyed real estate trendwatchers at Trulia have drummed ...
FULL PRESS RELEASE Moe's Original Bar B Que was pleased to be recognized at Bele Chere as Best Overall Restaurant by taking home Taste of ...
From the press release: Tomato lovers have, without exaggeration, nearly 1,000 varieties from which to choose a favorite—there are thought to be 600+ heirloom varieties ...
From the press release: Tupelo Honey Cafe, a fixture in downtown Asheville since 2000, will open a new restaurant in Johnson City, Tennessee, in the ...
In order to handle the recent influx of orders, we’ve recently hired Craig Weitzel as assistant maltster. Some of you may already know this gentlemen ...
From the press release: Grand Bohemian Hotel Asheville - a Kessler Collection boutique hideaway in Biltmore Village – invites guests to experience a special three-course ...
From Heather Cohen, Creative Director of Asheville Chocolate and Arts Festival: Call to Artists: The Asheville Chocolate and Arts Festival is looking for arts and ...
From CraftCans.com: 5. Bar of Soap | Asheville, North Carolina: It seems only fitting that one of America's top beer cities (it tied for Beer ...
From MANNA FoodBank: Special Friday, July 27 to Monday, July 30, friends of MANNA can purchase tickets for $25 each (a $5 discount off the ...
The Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project challenges the public to submit their favorite recipes featuring their current seasonal veggies, particulalrly okra, garlic, summer squash, tomatoes and ...
According to the company's kickstarter campaign, Blue Kudzu Sake Company would be only the fourth micro-brewery in the US and needs support to get started. ...
It was the perfect storm for finding mushrooms last weekend in gorgeous Yancey County. In recent days, thunderstorms had soaked the ground, paving the way ...
Helen Schwab, restaurant reviewer for the Charlotte Observer, recently visited Asheville where she ate at Cúrate, giving the restaurant a stellar review: "Cúrate – say ...
From a press release: "The Carolina Mountain Ribfest will return for our sixth year to the WNC Agricultural Center Fairgrounds in Fletcher, N.C. July 13, ...
Trader Joe's, as you may already know, is coming to Asheville. Here's the press release, which is beginning to make the rounds: "Trader Joe’s, a ...
The Ashvegas blog today says that "local sources" have confirmed that Trader Joe's is indeed coming to Asheville, where the grocery store chain will set ...
The writer of the blog, Will Travel for Vegan Food, has embarked on a year-long quest to visit all of the vegan food-focused in the ...
From the press release: Do you have a garden? Do you buy local produce? It is that time of the year again when we begin ...
Hendersonville-based food blog Carolina Epicurean has info and photos a-plenty from the newly opened City Market. Bobby and Layla Rogers have opened City Market at ...
PRESS RELEASE (from French Broad Chocolates) French Broad Chocolates is thrilled to announce the Grand Opening of their latest chocolate venture, French Broad Chocolates Factory ...
Travel + Leisure explores the Blue Ridge Parkway and the sights — and food — to be sampled along the way. Here's a taste" "The ...
Tupelo Honey Cafe has signed on to produce a second nationally distributed cookbook with Andrews McMeel Publishin, to be launched in the spring of 2014. ...
Judson Berger of Fox News visited Asheville and praised our food scene (which is "budding"), calling Chai Pani a major highlight of the trip ("a ...
Carolina Epicurean interviewed Katy Button, chef of Cúrate recently, afterward trying some of her food. Here are the results (interview in its entirety after the ...
Via Ashvegas blog: "It’s down to the final four restaurants in this year’s WNC Chef’s Challenge. Last year’s champion, Knife & Fork in Spruce Pine ...
Just when we think everyone knows the whole story about food trucks — or at least the important points — someone proves us wrong. John ...
From the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: Tomato plants are now in the ground of Western North Carolina’s farms and gardens. Unfortunately, ASAP and the Market ...
FROM THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES: ... Highland Brewing Co.’s new Razor Wit was named one of the best beers of 2012 by Esquire magazine. The light ...
Mountain Xpress Food Writer Mackensy Lunsford has been named a finalist in the 2012 Altweekly Awards for publications with a circulation under 50,000. Winners will ...
The Salmonella Paratyphi B outbreak caused by tainted starter culture in Smiling Hara tempeh is still climbing, say officials. 83 people had been sickened by ...
Esquire magazine tapped Highland Brewing's Razor Wit as one of the Best Beers of 2012 (so far), writing the following: Belgian-style witbiers are traditionally spiced ...
Bruisin' Ales and Zambra tapas are pairing together to present an a la carte evening of beer cocktails on Thursday, May 31, starting at 4 ...
Blog Asheville has a good roundup of some of the food and beer focused events coming this month and early next. Read on: "In May ...
Former Xpress food writer Hanna Raskin is living in the northwest and writing about Southern butcher shops — including Asheville's own Chop Shop Butchery. In ...
Over the weekend, Smiling Hara tempeh, a local company impacted by a salmonella-tainted starter culture from Maryland, announced that Whole Foods Markets has decided to ...
The founding brewer of the Lexington Avenue Brewery resigned today, the Citizen-Times reports. The brewer, Ben Pierson has been at the LAB since it opened, ...
From Food Republic, who released their craft-beer power rankings today (New Belgium was listed at no. 5): Thirty years ago, the concept of a craft-beer ...
Local food blogger Rachel from Girl In An Apron wonders what the world would be like if everyone ate as well as folks in WNC ...
A new website, Baby Takeout, takes some of the guesswork out of going out to eat with kids and babies. A helpful guide shows which ...
From the Huffington Post: While restaurants in western North Carolina have long been in the forefront of the local foods "farm to table" movement, a ...
From the press release: "Bill Klein, formerly of Fig in Biltmore Village, is Biltmore’s new chef at the Bistro. Bringing classical French technique and nearly ...
From TriCities.com: Officials with the popular Tupelo Honey Café chain visited downtown Bristol Wednesday during a tour of the Tri-Cities, which is being considered as ...
According to the website progressive grocer, Private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners has acquired an 80 percent interest in Fletcher, N.C.-based Earth Fare from ...
Graham Averill, who blogs at daddy-drinks.com, has a rather funny recap of the April 10 WNC Chefs Challenge between the Grand Bohemian's Red Stag Grill ...
Boone is creating an independent restaurant group, Boone Independent Restaurants (BIR) which they say they're modeling after Asheville's AIR. From the Mountain Times, based in ...
The Pink Taco Truck (pink to draw awareness to breast cancer) has been forced to change its name. Here's the scoop from Facebook: "Our Taco ...
Ingles Markets occasionally features Taste of Local events, where customers get to meet local farmers and vendors and try their products. On Thursday, April 19, ...
From their facebook page: TUESDAY 3:30 - 6:30pm. The growing season is just starting, but with so much rain and warmth this spring, you can ...
From Eater Philadelphia: "After years of deliberation, New Belgium Brewing Company has decided to expand in Asheville, North Carolina, and not Philadelphia. As recently as ...
Photo courtesy of press release From the press release: The North Asheville Tailgate Market, a Saturday morning tradition for those who love fresh produce, baked ...
From the post: On New Year’s Eve, my husband surprised me with the promise of an upcoming gastronomic getaway, a secret supper club two hours ...
Beginning this Earth Day (April 22), Whole Foods Market will no longer carry red-rated wild-caught fish in its seafood departments. The move, which comes one ...
Jack Curtin's Liquid Diet blog has this, which he labels "shaky": I received this text overnight from an anonymous source* who has not responded to ...
