Jane Hobson Snyder

Maximillians Grill 8314 Chapel Hill Road, Cary 465-2455 There’s a subtle punk-rock feel to Maximillians Grill in Cary. I know, Joey Ramone is turning over in his grave, but it’s true. The marble tables in front, the Paris posters on the walls, the dark wood and white tablecloths in back, all this is just dress-up: […]

Let me float a hypothesis here. I have a call in to the Register of Deeds to verify it, but I will venture to say that the divorce rate in Wake County has dropped in the last 10 years. Could anybody doubt me? Surely, many a marriage has been saved by the advent of Japanese-Thai […]

Cool Breeze 740 E. Chatham St., Cary 463-9130 Tue.-Thu.: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., 5-9 p.m. Fri.-Sun.: noon-9 p.m. Where East Chatham Street meets Maynard is a strange, eclectic, transitional area of Cary, a microcosm of the changing face of the Triangle. Here a genteel old clapboard farmhouse with a “For Sale” sign in the yard sits […]

If Hicham and Janet Elbetri, owners of Franklin Street’s tasty SandwHich, were anything but the extremely genial folks they are, Chapel Hill could have its own Seinfeldian lunchtime legend. Like the soup store to which Seinfeld character Elaine Benes famously becomes addicted, SandwHich works magic with its soupsand of course sandwichesearning a devoted following in […]

So what have you been up to this last month? Basketball, turkey with trimmings, elbowing your way through the local mall? Or have you perhaps been holding your breath, waiting for your next link in the chef’s picks Food Chain? In our last installment, Chef William D’Auvray of Fins was about to reveal his pick […]

I loved treasure hunts as a child. It wasn’t even reaching the final treasure that was the thrill, it was savoring each step of the way. There was excitement in searching out each clue, trying to uncover its obscured meaningcould “where the hot air blows” mean I should look in a high tree branch, or […]