Corkage Fees in Charlotte: A Restaurant Guide
Bringing wine into the places that made Charlotte magazine’s 2016 Best Restaurants list
Food + Drink
Meet the Dumpling Lady
A food truck owner finds a connection to her new home by sharing her childhood recipes
A Quick Trip to the Middle East at Yafo Kitchen
I’M IN LINE AND I’M HUNGRY. It’s just past noon on a Thursday in August, and I’m standing behind maybe a dozen people at Yafo Kitchen in SouthPark. I breathe the smells of Mediterranean spices—cumin, cinnamon, and turmeric. Rotisserie spits…
Upcoming Food Events (Sep 30 – Oct 5)
FRIDAY, SATURDAY (SEP 30, OCT 1) CAROLINA JUBILEE The Carolina Farm Trust presents a music and farm-to-table food festival celebrating and benefiting Carolina farmers. One hundred percent of the proceeds from this event will go toward helping the trust save Mary L Farm, which is at risk of losing…
How to Celebrate National Coffee Day
Today is National Coffee Day. Whether a cup of Joe is a daily habit for you or this cloudy September morning seems to call for one, here are places helping you celebrate the day. If you can make it until the weekend…
This week/weekend’s Charlotte craft beer events
Something for everyone from Wednesday to Sunday
Meet New Restaurant O-Ku’s Executive Chef
Michael Chanthavong, executive chef at new sushi spot O-Ku, says he’s been in restaurant kitchens since he was a “little rascal, asking, ‘What’s this? What’s that?’ ” His family owned several Thai restaurants, and when he was 14, Chanthavong’s mom…
Rating Charlotte's Food Delivery Services
As they pounce on Charlotte, we put takeout options to the test
NoDa celebrating one year at new site with release of Hot Pistol, other fan favorites
Celebration taking place Saturday at the North End taproom
Food Events Cancelled This Weekend and Into Next Week
As protests continue into the weekend, event organizers are making decisions around cancelling or rescheduling food-related events due to low anticipated turnout, logistics, or concerns for guest safety. In addition, some Uptown restaurants and bars have been closing earlier than usual;…
Festivals at Olde Mecklenburg and Sycamore this weekend, plus do some good with Birdsong’s Sugar Creek cleanup
It feels a little strange to be writing about craft beer with everything currently going on in Charlotte. It’s not lost on me that a craft beer event or release pales in importance to a city struggling to keep the…
Business As Usual For Many Uptown Restaurants, But Not All
Uptown businesses rally to clean up and move on this morning.
On Olde Mecklenburg’s (latest) expansion
City Council approval allows brewery to officially move forward with plans
NoDa Brewing debuts new version of “Woody & Wilcox” beer
Style moving from West Coast IPA to wheat ale
Are You Game for a Wild Game Cooking Class?
Get a little bold in the kitchen this October
Salud Cerveceria set for breakfast beer releases Tuesday
Event is all part of Salud’s “WaffleMania”
Amore for Amatrice, Italy: Dine Out, Help Out
Local restaurants offer diners a way to help Italian earthquake victims
Upcoming Food Events (Sep 9 – Sep 14)
Baklava, truffles, and wine.
A roundup of the latest Charlotte beer releases
One thing I learned while taking a month off to help out with our family’s newest half-pint: there’s a lot going on not just every week, but every day, in local craft beer. It’s a testament to how much this…
Pretending It's Fall
Get your house smelling like late October with granola.
How Charlotte Chefs Define Local
PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER TAYLOR Paul Verica Heritage Food & Drink 201 W. South Main St., Waxhaw 704-843-5236 What local means: From the Charlotte region, but applies to produce only Matthew Krenz The Asbury 235 N. Tryon St. 704-342-1193…
How to Tell If Fruits and Vegetables are Local, Organic, or Farmer Grown
1. Ask the manager if it’s a producer-only market, says Karen McSwain, farm services director for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. That way, if there are resellers at the market, you’ll know before you shop. “There is a role for…
Things I Learned About Oysters That You Can Learn Too
Uptown’s Sea Level restaurant takes pride in a chalkboard listing the varieties and prices of oysters it serves. Owner Paul Manley does his best to source everything sustainably, and when asked, he’ll gush over the Duxbury and how it’s difficult…
Upcoming Food Events (Sep 1 – Sep 7)
The long weekend offers a lot of chances to indulge.
Where Your Food Really Comes From
Fewer and fewer young folks are getting into farming. What does that mean for their future—and ours?
New Chef, New Dishes at RockSalt
Chef Jim Diecchio's updates may surprise those who haven't been in a while.
Never Frozen: Why It's So Hard to Find North Carolina Seafood
On the road with a seafood salesman, searching for truth in fish stories
Do You Know What You're Really Buying at the Farmers' Market?
Some people selling “locally” grown vegetables planted and harvested them. Others bought them from farmers or wholesalers. All of them sell at the same market. How can you tell the difference?
