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Small Bites
The Salsa’s dance? In last week's issue of Xpress, we reported that Salsa's, Hector Diaz's flagship Mexican-Caribbean restaurant, was moving. Not exactly, says Diaz. Though Diaz Properties did recently purchase the building at 23 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville for what Diaz says was an amazing deal (although he did reveal the building has some […]
Food news to go: Salsa’s stays put, Bandidos arrives and more local food news in small bites
Bahn mi fish tacos and veggie enchiladas at Bandidos Burritos — photo by Jonathan Welch.
Soothing our ruffled feathers
Rocky Lindsley's addiction is your addiction, Asheville. After taking an all-too-long hiatus, the fried-chicken meister is bringing back his popular Rocky's Hot Chicken Shack, and with it, the recipe for what is considered to be the most sought-after chicken in town. While on tour as a professional drummer in '94, Lindsley became hooked on a […]
Small Bites
Viva West Asheville! Sandwich aficionados that have been around town for a bit will likely recall Viva Europa. The convenience store and deli turned out awesome sandwiches from the little building on the corner of Montford and Pearson that now houses Tod's Tasties and To-Gos. When Viva Europa closed, many lamented the loss of the […]
Artist Resource Center planned for downtown Asheville
Art beutifies Asheville: I-240 mural made possible by the Asheville Mural Project, one of the programs under Arts2People’s umbrella.
— photo courtesy of Arts 2 People
Back to the Shack!
Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack is coming to West Asheville — good news for devotees of the fiery fried bird that Rocky Lindsley used to serve in Arden.
— Photo by Jonathan Welch
“On a Roll: Food Trucks Want a Piece of the Pie”
When I came on board full-time at Xpress, I hoped my new position would enable me to shed a new and different light on Asheville's amazing food scene, something that's near and dear to my heart (obviously). With this article about street food and one local woman's efforts to follow through on a simple dream […]
Food TV
Xpress has plenty of online content that doesn’t show in the printed paper. One example of that is a video that we’ll call “Battle Bacon.” It marks one of the first multimedia collaborations between staff reporter Jake Frankel and me. What better forum in which to start than summer’s WNC Magazine Chefs Challenge competitions? Those […]
Quotable Edibles
Favorite quotes from Small Bites and Food features Mark Rosenstein on molecular Gastronomy (March 31): "If I were 10 years younger," he says, "perhaps I would be devoting all of my energy into understanding that science. But I'm an emotional cook, not a scientist. There's an emotional side to alchemy, and I think some of […]
Food news to go: Asheville area restaurant news in small bites
Viva Europa reopens as Viva Deli, 12 Bones takes its yearly hiatus and Barley’s may be haunted
2010 bites
A quick look back on the year in food news.
A dish of cioppino from Blue Water Seafood Company, which opened a second location this summer on Charlotte Street — Photo by Michael Muller
That’s the spirit
Small Bites
More sandwiches? The Lion's Den sandwich shop recently opened inside the Grove Arcade, offering affordable light-lunch eats right next to the Fresh Quarter produce market. (The Fresh Quarter, by the way, is a great place for affordable light fare as well. The little market offers mostly produce, but also bags of spring mix, Greek yogurt, […]
Food news to go: area restaurant/bar news in small bites
Arcade delays opening until next week, the Magnetic Field is up and running and news from around the blogosphere.
Kelly Gold and Joshua Aaron of Arcade — photo by Jonathan Welch
Game on!
Hey Asheville — ready to play the games of your youth while getting snookered on adult beverages? Want to play BurgerTime, Centipede and Asteroids, far, far away from the screaming rugrat-inhabited land of Chuck E. Cheese? Arcade Asheville opens Friday, Dec. 17, ready to capitalize on a nostalgia for all things ‘80s. During its construction […]
Small Bites
Holiday bites The Hop Ice Cream Company is making Yule logs for Christmas. The confections are an ice cream take on a classic dessert, and are available for order through Wednesday, Dec. 22. The ice cream shop makes their Yule logs with jelly-roll cake from Creme Patisserie, which they roll with the customer's choice of […]
Searching for New York in WNC
Beyond Barcelona
Yule Booze
Here at Xpress, we're suggesting retro kitsch for the perfect, easily pulled together theme for your holiday parties. Last week, we recommended in all seriousness that you serve Krystal burgers on a silver tray, speared with toothpicks. OK, maybe we were joking, but if you actually do that this year, please send pictures. Now, we're […]
Creamy, puffy yule for you
We here at Xpress know that entertaining for the holidays is rarely easy. Most of you have barely had time to trash your slowly rotting Halloween Jack-O-Lantern. If you're hosting a gathering this holiday season, it's possible that you're trying to figure out how to work some kick-butt canapés out of a pile of leftover […]