Do you like bitter beer? Are you looking for better bitter beer? Have you become embittered because there isn’t better bitter beer, here? (OK, I’ll stop now.) Tyler’s Taproom (324 Blackwell St., Suite 400, Durham, 433-0345, www.tylerstaproom.com will host a beer tasting from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 24, just prior to a Durham […]
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New restaurants and happenings
It’ll be hog heaven at Ray Price Harley-Davidson/ Buell (1126 S. Saunders St., Raleigh, 832-2261, www.rayprice.com) on Saturday. They’re celebrating Hogs Gone Wild Day with, naturally, a barbecue contest. It’s too late to enter (the deadline was Aug. 11), but it’s not too late to show up and taste the 10 contestants’ best efforts. The […]
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New restaurants and happenings
August can feel like a month of waitingwaiting for school to start, waiting for the weather to cool down. In Durham, we’re waiting for several restaurants to open. Coming to the revitalized downtown Durham are Charlie Deal of Jujube in Chapel Hill, who plans to open Dos Perros in Rogers Alley in early 2008, and […]
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No passport required
See also: Mexican cuisine: A glossary | Balcazar Bakery in Raleigh | The Indy‘s restaurant guide There’s a whole world of Mexican meals there, eaters, and it’s all inside a well-lit grocery store near you. You may have been eating Mexicaneither Americanized or authenticat restaurants and taquerias for years. You may have even tried to […]
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New restaurants and happenings
This week, since the issue is stuffed full of food, I thought we’d talk about wine: specifically, our myriad opportunities to drink it while learning about it. In the Triangle, we can hardly pick a week that doesn’t offer several wine-related events. This week is no different (see below). But there are many more than […]
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New restaurants and happenings
An authentic Italian deli in Raleigh? Yep. Ferlo’s Alimentari (6320 Capital Blvd., Suite 123, 877-9723, www.ferlosalimentari.com) is a deli and catering business run by Amy Ferlo-Tewksbury and her brother, Frank Ferlo Jr. It’s also a bit of a victory for Amy, who has lived in the area for several years, and has been trying to […]
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New restaurants and happenings
It’s time for killer tomatoes. They’re everywhere: at farmers’ markets, in backyard gardens and on ritzy restaurant menus all over the Triangle. Chef Shane Ingram at Four Square in Durham (2701 Chapel Hill Road, Durham, 401-9877, www.foursquarerestaurant.com) is searching for the best local tomato. Through August, he will make his way through the various shapes, […]
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New restaurants and happenings
How many Tex-Mex restaurants can downtown Chapel Hill sustain? Just added to the already-salsa-saturated area is Chipotle (301 W. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, 942-2091), a chain of “gourmet burritos and tacos.” The Denver-based company also dishes out its “focused menu of burritos, tacos, burrito bols and salads made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients” at two […]
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Chocolate: A kiss isn’t enough anymore
See also: Love on the half shell They don’t even remember when it started, but at some point, it became a spreadsheet. Three friendsonly one a true chocolate fanaticbegan tasting high-quality dark chocolate bars and rating them. Larry Noe, Martha Wilkes and Sharon Stanners work together at SAS Institute in Cary. A few years ago, […]
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Joe & Jo’s, a downtown Durham institution and innovator, closes
Since opening in 2002, Joe & Jo’s bar has survived several robberies, an owner’s deployment to Afghanistan, and divorce. It thrived almost alone in Durham’s Five Points neighborhood, an island among panhandlers and construction barrels. Remarkably quickly, it became that rare thing in any modern city: a true neighborhood bar. Despite the strong community she […]