Everyone’s urging you to have a very local holiday these days. What’s a tastier way to do it than by stuffing your face with Pies in Disguise and Hop Ice Cream Café creations?
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The White Duck takes a break
Asheville, one of your favorite new restaurants (as voted in the Xpress Best of WNC readers’ poll) is taking a break for the winter — get your fix while you can. (Photo by Bill Rhodes)
Food news to go: News of the Asheville food scene in small bites
New bar comes to town, local creperie makes good and Green Sage opens a south location.
John Fleer eyes Asheville
Asheville, we're about to get another feather in our culinary cap. John Fleer is looking at our area to open his first restaurant. You may have heard Fleer's name before; he was the executive chef of Blackberry Farm, an Eastern Tennessee resort, for almost 15 years — and simultaneously the general manager of the resort […]
Small Bites: Asheville-Buncombe Food Policy Council holds first meeting
Do we live in a “foodtopia”? Yes and no. While we have a thriving local-food movement, 29.9 percent of children in the region are “food insecure,” according to an August study on the issue conducted by MANNA FoodBank and Feeding America. Buncombe County fares just slightly worse than the state average, with over 50 percent […]
Dish blog: An offal experience
Eating strange animal parts with gusto at the latest Blind Pig Supper Club
Attack of the giant shroom!
William Dissen from the Market Place has some rather large, locally foraged fungus available in house right now. (Photo by Bill Rhodes)
What the truck?
A month after food trucks were approved for downtown, many vendors can’t find a place to park.
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, […]
Dish podcast: An interview with Anthony Bourdain, part 2
In part two of this supplemental Dish podcast, Bourdain answers a number of questions posed by some of Asheville’s chefs
Moogfest leftovers
Plant’s Leslie Armstrong talks about hosting Moby, the vegan Moogfest performer who called Asheville “idyllic,” in her restaurant.
Dish podcast: An interview with Anthony Bourdain, part 1
The chef speaks to Xpress via cellphone about Paula Deen, being famous and fat Americans.
An interview with Anthony Bourdain
Bourdain is coming to Asheville on Saturday, Nov 5 to talk about food and travel, and how life in general relates to both. He took more than a few minutes out of his day to chat with Xpress about vegetarianism, food trucks, hunger and mediocrity.
Welcome to … Veggieville?
Vegetarians in Asheville (or those trying to feed one) have got it relatively easy. In 2006, GoVeg.com named Asheville “America’s best vegetarian-friendly small city.” More recently (this month, in fact), VegNews Magazine featured a large spread on Asheville's "foodtopia," calling Asheville a "mountain oasis" for vegetarians. "Many chefs, locals and visitors also know this mountain […]
Animal, vegetable, marital trouble
They don't call this city "foodtopia" for nothing. In Asheville, carnivores and vegetarians break (locally baked) bread together and inter-dietary couples abound. And sometimes, when it comes to matters of the heart intermingling with contrary dietary beliefs, things get interesting. Tim and Taryn Jackson are one such couple that has had to adapt to the […]
Food news to go: News of the Asheville-area food scene in small bites
5 Walnut’s Matt Logan discusses tentative plans for a new bar/restaurant in the RAD and the Small Plate Crawl is back.
A pig, a pint and an old-school country fair
Two Black Mountain Tailgate Market events are coming up: Pig and a Pint at Pisgah Brewing Company and the Black Mountain Tailgate Market’s annual fair.
ABC White House correspondent gets giddy over Tupelo Honey Café
At 6 a.m. on the chilly fall morning of Monday, Oct 17, Tupelo Honey Café loaded a van with piping-hot breakfast goods, which they transported to the Asheville Regional Airport. There, staff of the restaurant fed about 50 members of the Washington press corps awaiting the arrival of President Obama. Video after the jump.
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, […]
Feast Local for the Asheville Grown Business Alliance
Ready for the next Local Social? On Sunday, Oct 23, drift on down to the courtyard of the Crêperie Bouchon, decked out in your best ghostly (or zombiefied) finery for “Feast Local.”