Through restaurant ventures and a nonprofit culinary training program, Asheville is finding fresh ways to celebrate its soul food legacy.
Small Bites: Tod’s Tasties turns into All Day Darling
Tod’s Tasties transforms into All Day Darling, Taste of Asheville turns 10, Galactic Pizza opens on Sardis Road and more Asheville food news.
Top-Shelf Views: Asheville bartenders talk about absinthe
Local bartenders dispel myths about the legendary “green fairy.”
Y.E.S. Chef! Youth Culinary Program pairs teens with top Asheville chefs
A new youth culinary training program pairs teens with top local chefs for training that culminates with a cooking competition.
Small bites: Celebrity chef dishes up paella
District Wine Bar hosts a paella and Spanish wine fundraiser for Asheville Music School. Also in this week’s Asheville food news, GO Kitchen Ready students present their Showcase Dinner, the Acornucopia Project offers a nut foraging class, Hickory Nut Gap Farms hosts Sausage Fest, Marshall gets ready for its second Fermentation Festival and much more.
WNC experts take medicinal mushrooms into the kitchen
From soups to sweets, healing mushrooms’ medicinal properties can be accessed by incorporating them in recipes.
Beer Scout: Local breweries take varied approaches to welcoming pets
Asheville’s pet-friendly ways extend to its breweries, but bringing animal friends to a taproom is more complicated than it may seem.
Treat yourself: Asheville scares up sweet Halloween offerings — no costume required
Black Death ice cream, Corpse Reviver cocktails and chocolate sugar skulls are just a few of the Halloween goodies on the menu around Asheville.
Small Bites: Folkmoot celebrates with soul food
Chef Clarence Robinson and artist Ann Miller Woodford headline Folkmoot’s upcoming Souther Supper Series soul food dinner. Also in this week’s Asheville food news, West End Baker and Café makes artisan pizza for FEAST, PennyCup Coffee Co. and Biscuit Head open new locations, chef A.J. Gregson moves his popular Wednesday pop-up dinner series to his new Fairview Road barbecue restaurant and more.
Slow Food Asheville and Twin Leaf Brewery celebrate the candy roaster squash
The Oct. 25 event features a small-batch candy roaster grisette ale and a potluck gathering.
Women chefs introduce permanent downtown pop-up concepts
Most restaurants open with a bang — banners, grand-opening parties, VIP tastings and the like. But as Asheville’s market gets more and more saturated with eateries, a new trend is emerging: the quiet entrance. This summer, two established bar venues silently launched kitchens led by up-and-coming chefs, bypassing opening frivolities in favor of a more […]
Beer Scout: Urban Orchard and Noble bring cider downtown
The two local cideries are rolling out new locations on the South Slope and in the heart of downtown Asheville.
Small Bites: The Mediterranean changes hands
A landmark downtown diner gets new owners, the HardLox Jewish Food & Heritage Festival returns for its 15th year, All American Food Fights rolls out the inaugural Asheville Taco Takeover and more local food news.
Small bites: Amazing Pizza Co. goes inside
Amazing Pizza Co. goes from food truck to brick-and-mortar restaurant. Also, the Asheville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival rolls back into town, a few tickets are still available for the Highlands Food & Wine Festival and more local food news.
Asheville food artisan Charles Nembhard recognized with statewide entrepreneurship award
In 2014, the owner of Charley King’s Jamaican sauce business received hip and femur replacements and rehabilitative therapy with support from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. He has spent the last two years rebuilding Charley King’s from that medically imposed hiatus, and on Sept. 10, he was recognized with the DVRS Small Business Award.
Galleries and museums tap into Asheville’s craft beverage craze
Artists and gallery owners are recognizing the benefits of incorporating craft beverage sales into their business models.
Versatile dent corn stars in fall dishes
As its name implies, dent corn has a small dent in each kernel and is mostly used in its dried form as a grain.
Small bites: Harvest Festival 2018
The inaugural Harvest Festival kicks off at the Burton Street Community Peace Gardens. Also: White Labs Asheville hosts its latest fermented pairing class; Twin Leaf and Whisk AVL team up; Fiesta Hendersonville returns; and plenty more.
Bullington Gardens highlights dahlia collection with tours, wine event
Dahlias take center stage with events at the Hendersonville botanical garden.
Carolina Beer Guy: Meet brewer Carl Melissas
The latest in the brewer profile series looks at the creative mind behind Wedge Brewing Co.’s beers.
King Daddy’s Chicken & Waffle to close, making way for new Early Girl Eatery
The Early Girl’s owners say King Daddy’s will shutter on Thursday, Sept. 20, with the new restaurant opening on Wednesday, Sept. 26.