Press release from Blue Ridge Food Ventures [Asheville, North Carolina – June 23, 2014]: Tickets are now on sale for Stir Crazy, a party benefiting Blue Ridge Food Ventures, featuring food, craft beer, wine and specialty cocktails, live music, and silent auction and raffle items that range from restaurant gift certificates and zipline […]
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The Buchi Bar @ Rosetta’s Kitchen opens for business
The Buchi Bar @ Rosetta’s Kitchen is now open and serving alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks, including cocktails made with locally produced Buchi kombucha, fresh fruit and vegetable juices and locally made sodas and kombucha on draft. Wine, beer and Noble Cider are also available, and a dumbwaiter system allows guests to order food from Rosetta’s Kitchen located directly upstairs. Cocktails […]
Mixed company: Rhubarb introduces Sunday Supper
Chef John Fleer is taking the traditional American idea of family and friends gathering around a table for a Sunday evening meal to a new level. Fleer’s Pack Square restaurant, Rhubarb, is reimagining its current Thursday evening Family Meal as Sunday Supper, a celebration of the abundance of area farms in a communal dining setting […]
Small bites: A taste of Black Mountain
A new business is opening in Black Mountain that’s geared to foodies and history buffs of both the local and tourist variety: Creative Mountain Food Tours, owned by McDowell County residents Len and Sandi Eskew, will offer three themed tours that allow participants to do small-plate tastings at at least five restaurants, pubs and breweries while burning off those calories strolling through Black Mountain’s picturesque downtown.
Hemp documentary inspires beer collaboration
Black Mountain’s Lookout Brewing has collaborated with Hi-Wire Brewing and Urban Orchard Cider to create a small-batch, short-release hemp-seed oil brew in support of a documentary made by local filmmakers about industrialized hemp. The beer will be available at a special screening of the movie, Bringing It Home, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 17.
Asheville Brewers Alliance welcomes new director, board leadership
PRESS RELEASE from Asheville Brewers Alliance ASHEVILLE, N.C. (June 6, 2014) – The Asheville Brewers Alliance today announced the election of two new members to its board of directors: Anne-Fitten Glenn, Beer Communicatrix at Oskar Blues Brewery in Brevard, and Scott Jennings, Brewmaster at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Mills River. Joe Rowland, owner of Nantahala […]
Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival starts Friday
Tryon is the place to be for barbecue fans this weekend. The Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival is happening all day and well into the night on Friday and Saturday, June 13-14 at Tryon’s Harmon Field. The Kansas City Barbecue Society-sanctioned event will feature dozens of cooking teams from as far away as Florida […]
Wild Indigo Catering plans to open Brevard’s first food truck
WildIndigo_Kickstarter_060914.pages PRESS RELEASE from Wild Indigo Catering BREVARD, NC (June 9, 2014) – Chef Anne Somich, owner of Wild Indigo Catering, has a plan to bring Brevard its first food truck and she is using the popular crowdfunding website Kickstarter to turn that plan into a reality. Crowdfunding is the collection of finance from backers […]
Wicked Weed to release World Cup beer series
PRESS RELEASE from Wicked Weed Brewing Asheville, NC — With the start of the World Cup on June 12, Wicked Weed Brewing will release a series of beers inspired by traditional ingredients and/or beer styles from countries around the world. Wicked Weed Head Brewer Luke Dickinson has worked for months to source ingredients from […]
Beer and sub pairing at Metro Wines
PRESS RELEASE from Metro Wines Everyone knows the importance of wine and food pairing, but what about beer and food? Metro Wines is switching it up and will team up with Jersey Mike’s to host a beer and sub pairing on 6-8 p.m. Thursday, June 12 at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St., Asheville. The cost […]
The Junction to host Southern-themed beer dinner with Catawba Brewing
PRESS RELEASE from The Junction Asheville, NC, June 5, 2014 — The Junction Restaurant & Bar in Asheville’s River Arts District will present “Double Wide in the Deep South,’ a summer beer dinner featuring Catawba Brewing Co. on Wednesday, June 18, at 7 p.m. Chef Chad Kelly and his team will create a five-course menu […]
Metro Wines to host TV personality Rachel Reenstra
PRESS RELEASE from Metro Wines Star of shows on ABC, Animal Planet and HGTV, Spokesperson and Stand Up Comic Rachel Reenstra will be making a surprise appearance at 7 p.m. Friday, June 6 at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St., Asheville. The 30-minute show offers two times the comedy in half the time. Cost is $10 for […]
Small bites: The return of Chef Hundertmark
Local restaurateur Michel Baudouin recently brought Asheville food-scene veteran Tres Hundertmark onboard as executive chef for his two Lexington Avenue eateries, Bouchon and Creperie Bouchon. Hundertmark, former vice president of Asheville Independent Restaurants and past executive chef of The Lobster Trap, has made Asheville his home on and off since the late 1980s, alternating with stints in […]
Local bars mix it up for Negroni Week
Decide for yourself who makes the best Negroni in town and help raise money for a good cause by hoisting a glass at some favorite Asheville cocktail spots this week. As part of Imbibe Magazine and Campari’s international Negroni Week celebration and fundraiser, MG Road, The Imperial Life, Table and Top of the Monk will join bars around the world in […]
Great American Cookout to visit Tryon
PRESS RELEASE from Kansas City Barbeque Society NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ah. Spring is in the air and cookout season is finally here! The Kansas City Barbeque Society’s own Great American Cookout is out on its eighth tour across the nation, bringing cooking demonstrations and delicious samples conveniently to 20 of the biggest contests and […]
Season’s at Highland Lake summer cooking class and lunch
PRESS RELEASE from Season’s at Highland Lake (May 30 2014 – Flat Rock, NC) – Fire on the Rock winner and Season’s at Highland Lake Executive Chef Michelle Bailey will share some of the expertise and inspiration that led her to becoming an award winning chef at the June cooking class at Season’s at […]
WLOS to host day-long food drive
PRESS RELEASE from Children First/Communities in Schools of Buncombe County WLOS will sponsor an all-day food drive for the second year in a row 4:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, June 6, at Carolina Furniture Concepts, 2617 Hendersonville Road (past Airport Road). All nonperishable food items and personal care products collected during this drive will benefit the Children First/Communities in Schools […]
Nona Mia and Highland Brewing Co. team up to support Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
PRESS RELEASE from Nona Mia Italian Kitchen West Asheville – May 24, 2014 – Nona Mia Italian Kitchen has teamed up with Highland Brewing to support the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy.For one week, beginning Tuesday, May 27, Nona Mia will have exclusive access to Highland Brewing Co.’s latest release, Elevation Ale. This summer brown ale […]
Goodbye, Hi-Fi: Local café will close for good this summer
Two months after receiving news that they had lost their lease at the Downtown Market building, Hi-Fi Café co-owners Aaron Gibbs and Katie Baird have decided to permanently close their small eatery this summer. Despite previous plans to relocate, the two have decided to call it quits in Asheville. Gibbs and Baird say they learned […]
Whole-hog barbecue venture announced for South Slope
An ambitious, back-to-the-roots restaurant named Buxton Hall Barbecue will open this fall in the old Standard Paper Sales Company building at 32 Banks Ave. in South Slope — focusing on traditional, wood-smoked, whole-hog barbecue.
Small bites: Food news to go
The Center for the Study of the American South, in Chapel Hill will exhibit “Useful Work,” a collection of photographs taken by Asheville photographer Ken Abbot that capture the essence of Fairview’s simultaneously historic and progressive Hickory Nut Gap Farm. The show will feature 16 images selected from the project, which Abbot completed with funding he received from an N.C. Arts Council Artist’s Fellowship in 2006.