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Small Bites: Owner of 5 Walnut Wine Bar puts on his waders in the River Arts District
Matt Logan, the owner of 5 Walnut Wine Bar in downtown Asheville, has purchased a waterfront lot at 233 Riverside Drive with the intention of opening a business there. "It's about 1.8 acres between the Smoky Park Bridge and the train bridge," he says. "It's a complicated piece of property, because of the flood zone, […]
Small Bites: Hendersonville Small Plate Crawl is back
With nearly 30 restaurants participating in this year's Small Plate Crawl in Henderson County, perhaps it's best the event is known as a "crawl" and not a hop or anything else equally jostling. Hendersonville and Flat Rock will celebrate their local dining scene over two days: Tuesday, Nov. 8 and Wednesday, Nov. 9. All participating […]
Small Bites: Sweet skulls
Short Street Cakes hosts its annual Dia de los Muertos celebration, beginning Monday, Oct. 24 and continuing through Tuesday, Nov 1. During that time, calaveras de azúcar, Mexican-style sugar skulls, will be available for purchase at the shop. The skulls represent a departed soul and are traditionally placed on family altars to honor the return […]
Small Bites: Revenge of the pumpkins!
Around Halloween, it’s pumpkin everything, everywhere you look. Before you get completely winter-squashed out and everyone’s favorite gourd is still cute, fresh and novel, check out what some of our local chocolatiers, baristas and even beer-makers are concocting with (and in honor of) pumpkins. As mentioned in Eatin’ in Season elsewhere in this section, Pisgah […]
Small Bites: The chef of Cúrate talks about hosting Bourdain and her next apprenticeship
Anthony Bourdain's Saturday, Nov. 5 appearance at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium is approaching. After the speaking event, Cúrate will host 125 people for a private, ticketed book-signing featuring Bourdain and a selection of about 20 hors d'oeuvres. (For ticket information, visit avl.mx/62). Xpress has secured a copy of the proposed menu, and it looks pretty […]
Small Bites: Ruth’s Chris location under construction in south Asheville
You may have heard that the upscale steakhouse Ruth's Chris is coming to Biltmore Village, offering another answer to a question posed by visiting parents citywide: Where do I get a steak in this town? In Asheville, we know that nearly every restaurant that serves meat usually provides one cut of beef or another. Granted, […]
Small Bites: Falderal Winery offers DIY wine-making, along with wines made on site
A fascination with fermentation started early for Paul Kovacich, co-owner of Falderal Winery in Hendersonville. Kovacich says he began experimenting with the alchemy of sugars and yeast as a boy, when he was about 10 years old. Having received a more formal education in wine-making at Thistle Meadow Winery in Laurel Springs, near Boone, Kovacich […]
Small Bites: Ahoy! The Admiral revives the late-night menu
Has The Admiral been going through an identity crisis? It seems like that might be the case — at least in some respects. Yes, the dinner service is fruitful, and the restaurant has never been busier. But sometimes it seems that The Admiral has lost some of what was originally so intriguing about a little […]
Small Bites: Road to a food future?
Ever wanted to bottle your famous five-alarm hot sauce? Here’s your chance. A five-week course, “Starting Your Specialty Food Business,” will be offered at Blue Ridge Food Ventures (an initiative of AdvantageWest), beginning Oct. 19. The class will cover the basics of food entrepreneurship. The class is geared toward anyone toying with the idea of […]
Small Bites: School of hard lox?
Ready for your schmear? The HardLox Festival, Asheville’s Jewish food-and-heritage celebration, takes place at Pack Square on Sunday, Oct. 16, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. The event, in its ninth year, features Israeli dancing, crafts, a kids' zone — and lots of traditional Jewish food. Lox will make an appearance, as the festival's name […]
Small Bites: The toast — and taste — of Asheville
Asheville Independent Restaurants recently announced details of this year’s Taste of Asheville, the group’s biggest fundraising event at The Venue, 21 North Market St. in downtown Asheville. Taste will be held on Thursday Nov. 17, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. The Venue is a perfect setting for the event, with enough elbow room to […]
Small Bites: Area restaurant news, lickety-split
Foodwise, there’s plenty to do and taste in October, and we’ve rounded up some of what Asheville has to offer in quick-hit fashion: First, go out for a slice! Circle in the Square Pizza opened in downtown Asheville at 12 Biltmore Ave. on Sept. 24. The pizza shop is open Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. […]
Small Bites: Culinary couple behind Never Blue brings their comfortable tapas style to Asheville
Early next month, Jesse Roque and her husband, Edson, will open their third restaurant, Never Blue on Broadway, at 27 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville. The first of their burgeoning restaurant empire is the original Never Blue in Hendersonville, which will remain open as Never Blue on Main. The other, Blue Gypsy Watering Hole, is […]
Small Bites: Look homeward, diner
Thomas Wolfe spent much of his childhood living in his mother’s ramshackle boardinghouse among transient visitors and small-town eccentrics. Many of those who filtered in and out of Wolfe’s life during the period inspired the characters in his novel Look Homeward, Angel. On Saturday, Oct. 1, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial hosts the semiannual fundraising event, […]
Small Bites: Wine and dine for dogs
On Tuesday, Oct. 4, Roux at the Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park hosts the second annual “Whine and Dine” Dinner Gala to benefit the Animal Compassion Network’s Foster/Adoption programs on Tuesday, Oct. 4, from 6:30 until 9 p.m. The event includes a welcome reception and a five-course, all-vegetarian dinner by executive chef Randy Dunn. Wine pairings […]
Small Bites: Feasting for FEAST
Feasting for FEAST, a fundraiser for Slow Food Asheville FEAST program, takes place on Thursday, Sept. 22 at The Venue, a two-story event space on Market Street. FEAST is an acronym for fresh, easy, affordable, sustainable and tasty — what the organization emphasizes that food can be. To that end, FEAST provides free hands-on cooking […]
Small Bites: Is sea salt worth its … salt?
According to the American Heart Association, 61 percent of people surveyed nationwide about heart health said that they believed sea salt was a low-sodium alternative to table salt. What's the skinny? Both contain the same amount of sodium, says the AHA, meaning that you can't exactly eat it by the boatload. The minerals present in […]
Small Bites: James Beard nominated Chef duo brings Southern skill to Table
On Sunday, Sept. 25, Table's Jacob Sessoms will host Lexington, Ky. chef Jonathan Lundy for a market-inspired dinner. Though both Lundy and Sessoms are James Beard nominees running southeastern restaurants, their styles are somewhat different. Lundy is a Kentucky native, and the food he serves at Jonathan at Gratz Park (which he opened with his […]
Small Bites: Organicfest returns to its original digs
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Organicfest, a celebration of "all things organic and green.” Debi Athos, the founder and director of the festival, says that she's excited to host the event in its original location, the Roger McGuire Green at Pack Square Park downtown in front of the Buncombe County Courthouse and Asheville […]
Small Bites: Local food tour helps you eat — and drink — your way through the city
Josh Bailey and Steven Steidle want you to eat Asheville. Eating Asheville is a food-savvy walking tour of downtown Asheville, created by Bailey and Steidle, both currently employed at Zambra. The two boast a combined 38 years of food-service-industry experience, having done everything from slogging it in the dish pit to managing multimillion dollar restaurants. […]