Mobile eats have segued from trucks to bicycles: Three new food ventures are pedaling their way through the Triangle to offer customers yet another way to get their buzz. Berenbaum’s bakery (berenbaums.blogspot.com) launched their bread bike delivery service in April for select Durham neighborhoods and monthly CSB (Community Supported Bread) subscribers. Downtown Raleigh folks can […]
Victoria Bouloubasis
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What goes well with cheese? Almost everything
I bolted out of the heat and into the air-conditioned 3CUPS in Chapel Hill clutching a brown paper bag. I didn’t want to show up to my first cheese tasting with live cultures that had slipped into a mushy coma. I asked manager Jay Murrie if I should stick the bag in a fridge. It […]
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Hillsborough Cup A Joe pie-baking competition
Every last Friday of the month, the Hillsborough Cup A Joe hosts a pie-baking competition to benefit the Hillsborough Arts Council. I had the fortunate opportunity to judge last month’s contest and gorge myself on almost a dozen renditions of strawberry pie. The winner: an innovative, creamy version topped with local berries (an automatic extra […]
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Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe; Yum Yum Supper Club; new food trucks
It officially feels like summer out there, so it’s time to slide up to an outdoor community table and share a meal with a friend. Vimala’s Curryblossom Cafe (www.curryblossom.com) in Chapel Hill utilizes its courtyard throughout the warm months to promote a sense of community that matches the welcoming spirit beckoning patrons inside. Owner/ chef […]
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Triangle Restaurant Week is June 6-12
Some of us don’t have deep pockets to dig into to support our pretentious palates. (I know y’all hear me, Groupon fanatics.) Thankfully, we have weeks like these that let us delicately delve into our wallets for serious indulgence. Lovers of Le Creuset living on la vie bohème budget can score a deal this Saturday […]
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Grilled Cheese Bus for good
This isn’t the first wily idea to come from a school bus, but it has nothing to do with an exchange of paper lunch sacks. The Grilled Cheese Bus launched at Durham’s Briggs Community Garden two Saturdays ago as the area’s only nonprofit food truck. Its mission is to promote community activism with low-income minority […]
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Triangle Food Blogger Bake Sale; Pollinator Day Celebration; Martin’s Curry Rice
I had hoped that this week’s column could serve as an urgent reminder to buy your Farm to Fork Picnic ticket (farmtoforknc.com). Unfortunately, it is too late. The popular June event, where chefs team up with farmers to create delicious dishes, has already sold out. But you can mosey over to one of the Triangle’s […]
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Triangle Meatless Mondays
The omnivore’s dilemma doesn’t seem so difficult when there are restaurant meal options that won’t burst your healthy conscience. That’s the point of Meatless Mondays, a nationwide initiative launched in hopes of convincing Americans to eat more veggies. Locally, Triangle Meatless Mondays (trianglemm.com) will kick off April 22 at select restaurants, featuring an extra helping […]
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Food trucks circling the wagons in Raleigh
Food trucks have become their own subgenre of the Triangle’s food scene, gaining national attention and local devotion. But, as we’ve reported before, some truck vendors are operating on the sly. They hope to change that next week. Vendors based in Raleigh, like Mike Stenke, owner/ driver/ chef of Klausie’s Pizza (klausies.com), feel like expats […]
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The Cookery: a space for culinary creativity
The Cookery 1101 W. Chapel Hill St. Durham (919) 801-7290 Facebook Twitter The Cookery open house & food truck rodeo Thursday, April 7, 7-9 p.m. Catered by Pie Pushers, Slippin’ Sliders, Farmhand Foods Sausage Wagon, Only Burger, Blue Sky DiningFacebook event Last month, surrounded by towering industrial steel and heavy-duty kitchen equipment, Nick Hawthorne-Johnson rolled […]