Parties, parades, potlucks, festivals, fundraisers—and fireworks!—here’s where you can get your eat and drink on.
Lena Geller
Lena Geller is a reporter for INDY, covering food, housing, and politics. She joined the staff in 2018 and previously ran a custom cake business.
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Al’s Pub Shack Is Changing Its Name … to Al’s Burger Shack
You wanted a Bobo Chili Cheeseburger, and Al’s gonna give it to you.
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Ugly Produce Gets an Upgrade with New Hungry Harvest Merger
The merger is an effort to expand the fight to decrease food waste and improve food accessibility across the state.
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Chef Michael Lee Expands His “M-pire” with a New Korean Street Food Restaurant
The chef behind acclaimed M Sushi, M Kokko, and M Tempura will open a new restaurant, M Pocha, in downtown Durham on July 2.
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To Preserve Vanishing Black-Owned Farms, the Black Farmers Market Wants to Give Them Access
“Black folks have a complicated relationship to growing, and to land, and to farming.”
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All Aboard the Sausage Wagon: The Tour de Pork Has Returned for A Second Run
Renew your “passpork” and rack up your Piggy Points.
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18 Seaboard Will Close Next Month After a 14-Year Run
You have until July 2 to get your fix of 18 Seaboard’s contemporary Southern fare.
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With HB 363, Small N.C. Breweries Get a Big Win That’s Been a Long Time Coming
But for most of them, it won’t matter.
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Cary Celebrates the Caviar of the South at the Pimento Cheese Festival
“You don’t really top pimento cheese with anything. You just let the flavor soak in there, baby.”
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Chirba Chirba’s Truck Was Stolen. Six Hours and $10,000 Later, They Got It Back.
To thank the community for its support, owner Nate Adams says he plans to open a brick-and-mortar.
