What’s on the menu for Pollinator Week

  •  Curate will offer its version of a traditional Catalan dessert. The dish will include watermelon, roasted strawberry and cava rose sorbet with mint goat cheese snow and wild mountain honey. 11 Biltmore Ave. curatetapasbar.com
  • Nightbell is serving a cocktail called Penicillin No. 3. The mix will include house-made apple pie moonshine, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, house honey-ginger syrup with a cinnamon allspice tincture topped with candied ginger. 32 S. Lexington Ave. thenightbell.com
  • Writer’s Bistro at the Renaissance Hotel is offering two drinks. The Bee Sting will combine Absolut vodka with orange juice, honey syrup and club soda. The Beetini will involve Barenjager honey liqueur, clementine vodka, club soda and lime juice. 31 Woodfin St. renaissanceasheville.com
  • Local Provisions has created Sleepy Hollow, a cocktail that incorporates citrus honey, chamomile and Troy & Sons Blonde whiskey. 77 Biltmore Ave. localprovisionsasheville.com
  • Tupelo Honey (downtown) is offering its seasonal rosemary-peach lemonade. 12 College St.  tupelohoneycafe.com/location/downtown-asheville/
  • Twin Leaf Brewery is creating a saison beer that blends Yunan black tea, chamomile and rosehips. 144 Coxe Ave. twinleafbrewery.com
  • Copper Crown is serving three items. The dessert will be a honey-flavored water cake with peanut butter powder, toasted cocunut and molasses. There will be a small plate of crispy pig ear confit with honey glaze, apricots, creme fraiche and pistachios. Finally, the Flight to Fancy cocktail will include mescal, honey, house-made grapefruit shrub and Otra Vez Gose from Sierra Nevada. 1011 Tunnel Rd #100.coppercrownavl.com  
  • Sovereign Remedies has the Golden Rule Fizz, which includes gin, amaro montenegro, falernum, golden honey, lemon and egg. 29 N. Market St #105.  sovereignremedies.com
  • Smoky Park Supper Club is serving a lemon curd pie with strawberry jam and a cornmeal crust. 350 Riverside Drive  smokypark.com
  • Chestnut is pouring a peach Old-Fashioned with Haw Creek honey, fresh peaches and bourbon. 48 Biltmore Ave. chestnutasheville.com
  • 5 Walnut Wine Bar is offering mead by the glass. 5 Walnut St. 5walnut.com
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About Thomas Calder
Thomas Calder received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, the Miracle Monocle, Juked and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Wind Under the Door, is now available.

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