Just a few minutes ago, Scratch Baking announced it will close its downtown location in the upcoming weeks. The bakery and breakfast and lunch cafe opened eight years ago. In a Facebook post on the business’s page, owner Phoebe Lawless writes about the decision to close Scratch’s original Orange Street location by the end of […]
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Triangle Restaurant Week Launches Its Tenth Year Today
Triangle Restaurant Week begins today, celebrating its tenth year on the scene. Now through Sunday, January 28, almost one hundred restaurants, bars, and breweries are offering three-course prix fixe menus at a steal. Lunches start at fifteen dollars; dinners range from twenty to thirty-five. It’s a good chance to try somewhere you’ve never been or […]
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Fullsteam Brewery, Escazu Chocolates, Boxcarr Cheese, Fiddlehead Farm Among N.C. Winners of 2018 Good Food Awards
Our local food products continue to gain national acclaim, to the delight of tastebuds everywhere. A few Triangle favorites were honored with Good Food Awards this weekend in San Francisco.Fullsteam Brewery, which won in 2013 and 2016, won again this year for three distinct beers from its Farm’s Edge series. Each beer offers a direct […]
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A Writer Walks into a Bar: Read the Winning Entry of Foundation’s Essay Competition
Literary heroes throughout history have famously put pen to paper while nursing a tumbler of liquor. The bartenders and owners of Foundation, Raleigh’s longtime cavernous refuge for whiskey lovers and cocktail connoisseurs, know that introspection and creativity can be nourished by a good drink. Since it opened eight years ago, the bar has promoted local […]
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Downtown Raleigh Residents, It’s Finally Happening. You’re Getting a Supermarket.
Lattes and nachos won’t feed you forever. Downtown Raleigh continues to swell with new condos and apartments—and coffee shops and restaurants—and residents have long wondered if their grocery-shopping fate was sealed in the disaster that is the Cameron Village Harris Teeter parking lot on a weeknight. Finally (well, by 2020) Raleigh gets its downtown supermarket. […]
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It’s Been 24 Hours, But Mark Wahlberg Still Hasn’t Responded to Raleigh Bar Owner’s Challenge
Zack T. Medford loves a good hamburger. The owner of Isaac Hunter’s Tavern and Great Crawl Events prefers a local burger, though, from Mecca or Chuck’s. But he’s kicked up some beef with Mark Wahlberg ever since the actor and his brother—actor and former New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg—announced the upcoming Raleigh opening […]
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Local Efforts to Support Hurricane Harvey Victims Include Raleigh’s Flying Saucer and Mellow Mushroom
It’s easy to find camaraderie at a table surrounded by friends and pints of beer or trays of pizza. Folks at the Flying Saucer in Raleigh are taking that vibe a step further in solidarity with their sister stores in Texas this month and communities devastated by Hurricane Harvey. For all of September, the Flying […]
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The U.S. Open Beer Championship Taps Raleigh’s Lynnwood Brewing Concern as the Country’s Third Best Brewery
Raleigh’s Lynnwood Brewing Concern won third place at the 2017 U.S. Open Beer Championship, placing it among the top ten best breweries in the world. For the ninth year in a row, the competition included breweries from the U.S. and abroad, pitting talented home-brewers against professional operations. Another North Carolina outfit also made the top […]