Tupelo Honey Café 425 Oberlin Road, Raleigh Limited hours first two weeks tupelohoneycafe.com Once the dreamed-about destination of Triangle vacationers in Asheville, Tupelo Honey Café has opened a handsome new outpost in Raleigh’s expanding Cameron Village. The eighth andat 180 seats, including an outdoor patio with fire pitsecond-largest operation in the Tupelo chain served dozens […]
Jill Warren Lucas
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Celebrating pisco, the national drink of Peru
Camp de Encanto Pisco Dinner 6pm Sunday, November 30 $79 per person, including four-course dinner and pisco cocktails Mandolin 2519 Fairview Road, Raleigh Reservations: 919-322-0365 John Anton is counting on you feeling a bit sluggish after celebrating one of America’s richest culinary traditions this week. His remedy is pisco, a potent palate cleanser from Peru. […]
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Short Stack series has a Raleigh connection with Kaitlyn Goalen
Increasingly, home cooks are forgoing expensive cookbooks in favor of finding recipes online or downloading interactive lessons to their e-readers. Why pay for milk, they reason, when they have free access to a highly productive cow? Amid such frugal thinking, it may seem surprising that Short Stacka collection of single-topic mini-cookbooks, handmade and stitched with […]
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Loaf catches the eye of Bon Appetit
LOAF 111 Parrish Street, Durham Tuesday–Friday, 7 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. 919-797-1254BOULTED BREAD 614 W. South St., Raleigh Wednesday–Friday, 7 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday–Sunday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. [email protected] In my New Jersey youth, bialys were the sad, dusty cousin of the chewy bagel. Crowned with poppy seeds or the sticky goodness of not quite […]
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Slingshot opens a morning hangout
Weekend 1420 Brookside Dr., Raleigh slingshotcoffeecompany.com Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Rain fell steadily the Friday night that Slingshot Coffee owner Jenny Bonchak welcomed fans and friends to her new Raleigh headquarters at 1420 N. Brookside Drive. She and husband Jonathan Bonchak couldn’t show off the comfy sofa and chairs purchased for its new […]
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After fire, beloved Pizzeria Toro to re-open next week
Pizzeria Toro 105 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham 919-908-6936 The stink of wet smoke may never entirely clear from Gray Brooks’ head. But inside Pizzeria Toro, which closed for repairs last November after a second fire, the air is dusted with the promising scent of rebuilding. “The biggest change was right here,” says the chef […]
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Successful pastry chef started as a line cook
As the chef-owner of three successful Triangle restaurants 18 Seaboard and Cantina 18 in Raleigh, and now Harvest 18 in DurhamJason Smith believes in the importance of using locally grown ingredients in his kitchen. Recently, however, Smith took this passion for terroir further by making special arrangements to cultivate local talent, too. He realized that […]
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Expats celebrate Canada Day with beloved foods
CanSouth Canada Day Celebration June 29, 5–8 p.m. Polar Ice House 1839 S. Main St., Wake Forest $5 per person, $20 for families of four or more RSVP at www.cansouth.info (click on Canada Day 2014 tab) Across the Triangle and from sea to shining sea, firework stands are sprouting in strip mall parking lots like […]
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Artisan dry cider finds its place in fine dining and cocktails
Sweet Stayman Cocktail Sophisticated dry cider used to be an oxymoron. Once the passion of colonial home brewers like Thomas Jefferson, it was sidelined in the late 19th century by the growing popularity of beer; it all but vanished during Prohibition. In more recent times, it resurfaced as a sweet fizz popular with underage consumers […]
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In advance of a Raleigh opening, a new book from Tupelo Honey Café
For Elizabeth Sims, the decision to bring Tupelo Honey Café to Raleigh this fall could not have been better timed. The iconic Asheville eatery has opened several outposts in recent years, including Charlotte, Chattanooga, Greenville (S.C.) and Knoxville. Another will open next week in Johnson City, Tenn. The Blue Ridge branch of Appalachian comfort food […]