In the parking lot of the Westmont Commons Apartments sits a biodiesel-fueled, AstroTurf-green delivery truck. Approaching the vehicle, cheerful strains of Bob Marley can be heard, drifting over the sounds of the kids playing in the nearby pool and the distant traffic of Leicester Highway. The words "Solbury Express" are hand-painted in bright yellow on […]
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Small Bites
Itty Bitty Bites Tupelo Honey, one of our area's most successful independent restaurants, has set a precedent for giving back to kids in the community. Readers of the Xpress dining section may recall, for example, a recent report on the nouveau Southern restaurant's efforts to clean up and maintain the YWCA kids' garden. That garden […]
Why is there so little street food in Asheville?
Asheville has very little in the way of grab and go food. I plan to investigate exactly why, and what can be done about it.
Small Bites
• A $5 Lunch that is Très Délicieux? Mais Oui!
• Outstanding in the Field
• Quick Bites
Where’d that food come from?
Perhaps you're wondering, why all of these ads? And what's with the Appalachian Grown logo? Here's the deal: This year, the Mountain Xpress partnered with the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project in an alliance designed to support our local food scene. We've featured profiles on local farms, updates on regional farmers markets and recipes that help […]
It’s a dirty job — and you never know who’s doing it.
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to wait tables at the Universal Joint in West Asheville for Little Iron Man’s Big Night Out, a benefit for a local three-year-old boy recently diagnosed with neuroblastoma. Other guest servers were invited as well, including a Blue Ridge Roller Girl and a pro, take-no-prisoners server from […]
Green homes are the place to be
At the time of the inaugural Southern Energy and Environment Expo, green technology was still a fledgling industry. Sustainable living was widely considered the stuff of hippies living on communes; hybrid cars were still viewed as concept-vehicles. Times have changed in the past decade, however. The S.E.E. Expo, billed as the South's largest and longest-running […]
Attack of the restaurants!
The Asheville area has been bursting with new food businesses lately. When it comes to restaurant options, we've got plenty: Pick up a steamer bucket of shellfish at Bluewater Seafood on Charlotte Street, grab a sandwich at Cucina 24 Deli on Wall Street, or scoop up a crêpe from the Twisted Crêpe on Haywood Street. […]
Small Bites
Sunny Slow Food Sunny Point Cafe and Slow Food go hand in hand. This is, by no means, a dig at the speed of the cooks in the kitchen. If unfamiliar with the concept, here it is in a nutshell, according to Slow Food International: "Slow Food [aims to] counteract fast food and fast life, […]
Food news to go: area restaurant news in small bites
The Southern opens, the New French Bar closes and the Usual Suspects changes hands
Pushin’ Chickens
Alan Reynolds simply wanted to keep the chickens out of the blueberries. The solution, he reasoned, was a chicken tractor, a self-contained, bottomless mobile coop of sorts for domestic birds. Photos by Leigh Reynolds You may have heard of chicken tractors before. They were popularized by Joel Salatin in the 1980s as an option for […]
A nettle a day
Beneath a hazelnut tree, Michael Gentry, aka the Sustainable Gourmet, has placed a table. Over the brightly colored tablecloth, he's laid out a spread of food, displayed in glass dishes and assorted pieces of pottery. Right there, in Asheville's edible garden, with the terra-cotta tiles of the city building peeking through the branches of an […]
Small Bites
• Get Down!
• Ahoy!
• Quashing the Rosetta’s rumors
Food news to go: area restaurant news in small bites
A benefit at the U-Joint, the Admiral nixes late-night and a new dive bar opens on the west end of town.
A special take on weiners
Small Bites
• More street food!
• Chefs Move to Schools
Valet Gourmet — formerly known as Blue Ridge To Go — makes some positive changes
The popular delivery company is going greener, adding more services and making sure their staff is happy.
WNC Flavor Fest
Cucina 24 Deli is now open
Photo by Michael Muller
Cucina 24 owner Brian Canipelli has opened a deli next to his full-service restaurant on Wall Street in downtown Asheville. The new spot serves sandwiches and antipasti, and it offers some gourmet items for sale, like Theros olive oils — and even Nutella.
Flea markets, Pho and ful medames
Small Bites
• More tapas!
• French Broad Food Co-op serves up a fresh new salad bar
• In the Market for mushrooms
• Sandwiches!
• Blackbird flies on Sundays