Few Asheville dining establishments can boast the staying power and history of the Silver Dollar Cafe, a diner that’s been open for decades in the River Arts District. Before the neighborhood was a hot spot for arts and food, the diner was a haunt for the average blue-collar Ashevillean. But that’s all about to change.
A-B Tech’s culinary chops have never been in doubt, and the school has, once again, won high honors in a national-level cooking contest.
Danny Schwalje, left, a member of the student team from A-B Tech, tries to beat the clock in the 2011 American Culinary Federation National Student Team Championship in Dallas, July 25.
—photos courtesy of the American Culinary Federation
Later this month, sample a dish of ceviche and a pint of Solstice to the sounds of Ben Hovey at Pisgah Brewing Company’s taproom.
They say that when you can't take the heat, you should get out of the kitchen. We call that suggestion a little bit over the top. With the August weather upon us, if you're sick of sweating it out but short on funds, don't go hungry — just shut the stove off. We’ve provided four […]
Cucina 24 and chef Brian Canipelli have been presenting a special supplemental menu to Cucina’s regular offerings lately. It’s a concept that revolves around a snout-to-tail style of cooking, wherein the chef goes, literally, whole hog (or cow or lamb, for that matter). Canipelli recently featured a seven-item menu of dishes created using local veal […]
Rumor has it that famous chef, restaurateur and author (among other things) Anthony Bourdain will be making a November appearance at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Who’s excited?
Xpress food writer Mackensy Lunsford and “rocktographer” Rich Orris try the Krispy Kreme burger so you don’t have to.
Local restaurant workers let Xpress into the kitchen to see what all the pre-Bele Chere fuss is like.
New cheese shop is open downtown, a handful of Bele Chere closings and a Taste of Asheville.
Asheville’s first all-vegetarian food festival, the Asheville Vegfest, takes over Battery Park Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 7, from noon until 7 p.m.
Do you consider yourself a devout fan of the Asheville food scene? WNC Magazine’s Asheville Wine and Food Festival may have the ticket for you. The Grand Tasting will be held on Aug. 13 at the Expo Center near the Asheville Regional Airport
King of Pops, a gourmet ice-pops business whose roots lie in the Atlanta street-food scene, started a branch in Asheville this year. Gabriella Oviedo, who graduated from Georgia State University, moved to Asheville in part because she wanted to bring the brand of frozen, all-natural treats to our streets and farmers markets. For a while, […]
A new vegetarian food truck is set to hit the streets. The operator of the Veggie Love truck, 23-year-old Alison Murphy, is vegan, so the majority of her food will be animal-product free, she says. "I was thinking of offering cheese as an add-on, offering sour cream and maybe using a little egg," says Murphy. […]
Land-ho! Crossing the roiling oceans of Bele Chere festivalgoers is enough to give any otherwise smooth sailor a cmajor ase of seasickness. You can keep your mind off the nausea with games like count-the-mulleted-shirtless-guys or find-the-baby-stroller-holding-the-beer-stash. Failing that, head straight for the Taste of Asheville, a landlubber's oasis in a vast expanse of crazytown. A […]
The Hop Ice Cream Cafe’s Ashley Garrison reports that the company will soon offers local goat’s milk ice cream.
— Photo by Jonathan Welch
The Downtown Market wants you to know it’s still open. Plus, vegetarians take to the streets next week.
Alison Murphy adds yet another option to the blossoming Asheville street food scene.
The menu at your favorite local sushi restaurant might as well offer the "endangered species roll." Not the best marketing, but here’s the truth: Certain fish species commonly found on restaurant menus and in sushi coolers have been fished nearly to the brink of extinction. While you wouldn't dream of eating panda bear (would you?), […]
New food truck alert There's a new mobile sandwich unit in town. Nate Kelly has opened the Lowdown food truck with wife, Cynthia. Nate was the chef at the Usual Suspects, the ever-popular late-night hot spot that was replaced by Avenue M last year. Monday through Thursday, the truck can be found selling a small […]
Gabriella Oviedo’s ice pops are now all handmade in Asheville using local produce.
—Photo by Mackensy Lunsford
Event organizer Kelly Denson presents the Asheville Yacht Club with a People’s Choice award at Saturday’s Asheville Wing War.
—Photo by Jackson Stahl
