Welcome to Friday Night Bites, your weekly roundup of local food and drink news and events. Have a tip for us? Email [email protected]. NEWSSlingshot Coffee Co. Launches Coffee Sodas Raleigh’s Slingshot Coffee Co. announced the opening of a new thirteen-thousand-square-foot production facility in downtown Raleigh’s Anchorlight complex, and with it, the roll-out of its new […]
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Zweli’s Piri Piri Kitchen Brings Zimbabwean Flavor and Local Soul to a Durham Strip Mall Dominated by Chains
Zweli’s PIRI PIRI Kitchen 4600 Durham Chapel Hill Blvd, Ste. 26, Durham www.zwelis.com, 984-219-7555 After spending years building a successful catering business, chef Zwelibanzi Williams (she goes by Zweli) has finally opened her first brick-and-mortar restaurant. Zweli’s Piri Piri Kitchen, which Williams opened in July with her husband, Leonardo, is a hidden gem in the […]
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With Its New Science-Based Farm, COPA Is Out to Prove You Can Grow Local and Eat Global
COPA 107 West Main Street, Durham 919-973-0111, www.copadurham.com In March, Old Havana Sandwich Shop relocated a few blocks west on Main Street in downtown Durham and renamed itself COPA. Old Havana’s traditional Cuban farerice and beans, roast pork, sandwichesfollowed, but the menu at COPA got a makeover. Dishes from Old Havana’s “Lost Dishes of Cuba” […]
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Friday Night Bites: The Lakewood Nominated for BA’s Hot 10, Durham Distillery’s Canned Cocktails, a Batalá Durham-Inspired Beer, and More
Welcome to Friday Night Bites, your weekly roundup of local food and drink news and events. Have a tip for us? Email [email protected]. NEWS The Lakewood Nominated for Bon Appétit’s Hot 10 ListThis week, Bon Appétit magazine revealed the fifty nominees in contention for its annual Hot 10, a list of the ten best new […]
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Friday Night Bites: The Lakewood and Scratch are Suddenly Closing, Cucciolo Osteria Is Opening, Saltbox Lands on Taste of the South’s Hot List, and More
Welcome to Friday Night Bites, your weekly roundup of local food and drink news and events. Have a tip for us? Email [email protected]. NEWS Today, chef Phoebe Lawless broke the news on Instagram that both The Lakewood restaurant and Scratch bakery will cease operation after this weekend. The surprise closure of the two establishments, which […]
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Lonerider Brewing Company Gets Ahead of the “Brew-Stillery” Trend by Launching Lonerider Spirits
Raleigh’s Lonerider Brewing Company announced the launch of its sister craft-spirits company, Lonerider Spirits, which will debut with a sherry-cask-aged bourbon in North Carolina this September. Rather than create its own distillery, Lonerider Spirits has tapped N.C. distillers to bring the company’s vision—driven by Lonerider Spirits chairman Sumit Vohra (who is also Lonerider Brewing Company’s […]
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The EATS Issue: The INDY’s Annual Celebration of All Things Edible in the Triangle
The INDY publishes Eats every year, but this is my first as food editor. It’s also my first year living in the Triangle, and what excites me most about the food scene here is how much I have yet to discover. According to our head-spinning rundown of one hundred must-eat local dishes, I still have […]
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The INDY’s Third Annual Food Triangles Honor Those in the Food and Beverage Community Who Go Above and Beyond the Plate
Now in their third year, the INDY‘s annual Food Triangles awards honor leaders in our food and beverage industry who go above and beyond the plate in their efforts to make our community more inclusive, more supportive, and more nourishing for everyone. All three of this year’s winners challenge us to reconsider what we eat, […]
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Food Triangle: At A Place at the Table, Raleigh’s Only Pay-What-You-Want Cafe, Maggie Kane Wants to Do More Than Feed the Hungry
Just before ten on a Tuesday morning, as Maggie Kane crosses a small dining room, she refills a water glass, straightens a vase of flowers, hugs a regular, and answers a server’s question. This may sound like an ordinary restaurant scene, but A Place at the Table is not an ordinary restaurant. On the first […]
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Scott Crawford Knows That Getting Sober Is Hard, But Staying Sober in the Hospitality Biz Is Harder
“This is how it works for me in recovery: If you have something great—which to me is sobriety and peace, and it took me so long to find it—you have a responsibility to share it.”
