What’s better than sipping on delightful cocktails during the holidays? Sipping on those cocktails and knowing that your intoxication and the sacrifice of your liver is supporting a good cause. On Saturday, Dec. 21, Imperial Life, the bar and lounge upstairs from Table, will host a benefit for Toys for Tots sponsored by the liquor company Remy-Cointreau.
Creamy cheese melted over a hot granite slab, a selection of savory or sweet accompaniments, a glass of wine and good conversation: This is the essence of raclette, the centuries-old Swiss dining tradition introduced to Asheville in late November by Creperie Bouchon.
Wild Mountain Bees will be open special hours of 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday through the holidays. The store’s Asheville location at 425 Weaverville Road offers beeswax candles, local honey, bee products, jewelry and beekeeping supplies. Gift certificates are available and shoppers can ask to be added to a mailing list for 2014 beekeeping classes. They […]
North Carolina News Service SHELBY, N.C. – Shelby dairy farmer Ashley Bridges has a welcome problem this holiday season – she can’t keep enough product on the shelves of the retailers and consumers who are demanding it. A third-generation farmer, five years ago Bridges decided to transition her Guernsey cows completely to grass-fed and now […]
Press release from Short Street Cakes After a bustling Thanksgiving season that saw the addition of house-made pies added to their production line, Short Street Cakes, Asheville’s all-natural, from-scratch, Southern-style cake bakery, launches its 2013 Holiday Menu. Specials include a traditional Buche de Noel, Eggnog Cake, Chocolate Peppermint Cake, Lavender Tea Cakes, Orange Chocolate Gateau, […]
Geraldine’s Bakery will celebrate its recent opening with an open-house event 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. Geraldine’s, located in the former spot of Sisters McMullen Bakery on Merrimon Avenue, opened its doors on Nov. 18 after owner Fred Dehlow, a second-generation baker from New York, bought the business from Andrea McMullen.
The holidays mean decadence. Fatty foods proliferate, bank accounts go negative and children risk becoming spoiled. In the spirit of overindulgence, Asheville can now add fresh Maine lobster to the holiday table. Especially since this well-armored delicacy is now available fresher and at a cheaper price than in area grocery stores.
Holiday blues got you down? A flurry of local workshops, wine tastings and tea parties offer opportunities to infuse your holiday social calendar with culinary merriment. With so much deliciousness (and/or alcohol) in your belly you’ll be rendered incapable of muttering “humbug.”
Press release The Buncombe County Service Foundation will host the Eight Days of Food Trucks fundraiser featuring one food truck per day Wednesday, Dec. 11 – Friday, Dec. 13 and Monday, Dec. 16 – Friday, Dec. 20 at 35 Woodfin St. in downtown Asheville. The trucks will be serving food from 11 a.m. – 2 […]
What happens when a venue known for its tap takeovers gets together with a brewery also known for its tap takeovers? A really, really big tap takeover, starting at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
The Crossing at Hollar Mill in Hickory is offering, along with its upcoming Schmoozapalooza event, a chance to be a part of the filming of a segment of the Food Network’s “Food Court Wars” program with host Tyler Florence. Press release Schmoozapalooza The Crossing at Hollar Mill is hosting the Catawba County Chamber of Commerce’s […]
Press release The Asheville Independent Restaurant (AIR) 2014 Passport is now on sale, just in time for the holidays. The Passport, which includes buy-one-get-one coupons at more than 40 of Asheville’s locally owned, farm-to-table restaurants and breweries, can be purchased for $50 at the AIR website (www.airasheville.org) or at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce […]
The Asheville area’s holiday offerings include a multitude of palatable family-friendly events. Indulge your family’s senses in holiday spirit with the smells and tastes of local, seasonal fare. Even the littlest bellies will find edible holiday cheer in abundance. The appeal occasionally draws our favorite visitor from the North Pole to dine and mingle with his gracious fans, especially, it seems, when there are pancakes to be had.
From Black Mountain News: Daniel Wright, chef-operator of Tomato Jam Cafe, said he’s been forced to leave the restaurant and the 379 Biltmore Ave. building he’s leased since 2010. Tomato Jam Cafe — a breakfast and lunch spot known for its comfort food and grilled cheese sandwiches — will have its last day with Wright […]
After completing a 30-day all-banana diet, Black Mountain resident and self-described “fruitarian” Montana “Tanner” Leet received the results of a blood test he ordered to show how eating nothing but bananas for an entire month affected his body. At first, Leet misinterpreted some of the test information and mistakenly believed the regime had caused his […]
WNC residents share Thanksgiving memories
Every Wednesday, like clockwork, the Haywood Street Congregation, based in the brick church at the corner of Patton Avenue and Haywood Street, offers a family-style lunch and rollicking worship service that nourishes the bodies and souls of many members of Asheville’s homeless population, along with other residents from all walks of life. (photo by Michael Carlebach)
Advantage West held the “Fry Party” last week at a kitchen at Blue Ridge Food Ventures, located on AB-Tech’s Enka campus, to bring local attention to F3, an effort, according to project director Ron Townley, that pilots a new business model for the production of biodiesel from locally grown canola. The program, he says, is aimed at ultimately reducing Western North Carolina’s dependence on imported fuels by creating a partnership among area farmers, restaurants and biofuel producers.
Just in time for the chill of fall, The Bull and Beggar has opened its doors for the revival of Charlie Hodge’s Recession Proof Mixology, or RPM. Hodge began the project at Chestnut before bringing the program of affordable cocktails and bar food to the River Arts District for the first time last Monday night.
The Venue in downtown Asheville was packed with foodies last night for Asheville Independent Restaurant Association’s (AIR) 10th annual Taste of Asheville small-plate extravaganza. The crowds were gathered to participate in a strolling dinner party that encompassed all three floors of the vintage brick building.
Nothing compares to a feast on Thanksgiving Day without any dishes to clean up! If you plan to eat out for the holiday, it’s a good idea to make reservations as soon as possible.
