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A new web-based produce company is now available to people across WNC. Read Story »
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A new Hendersonville eatery is out to balance the never-ending journey for health-conscious meals on-the-go. Read Story »
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Two women walk into a bar and start talking about the office. No, wait. That’s not right. The story told by Mike Willey, about his wife, Christa, and her friend, Terry Jacobs, opens this way: Two women walk into an office and start talking about a bar. Read Story »
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Zen Hen Cafe, a new restaurant serving "Buddha bowls" and rotisserie chicken, is opening in the old Subway space at 1794 Asheville Highway. Read Story »
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If he had any hesitancy about opening his White Duck Taco Shop in the middle of a pandemic, Aaron Adams has left those fears behind. Read Story »
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The Sweet Frog frozen yogurt shop on Main Street would usually attract a sizable crowd on a warm day like Wednesday. Instead, by mid-afternoon, only three customers had showed up. Read Story »
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Restaurants and craft breweries, the enduring lifeblood of downtown Hendersonville, stopped serving sit-down meals and pouring pints at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, casting an eerie quiet on the usually bustling Main Street. Read Story »
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Gov. Roy Cooper is expected to issue an executive order today directing restaurants and bars to close for for dine-in service while allowing takeout and delivery orders. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Starr Teel is more than a barbecue cook. Read Story »
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LongHorn Steakhouse officially opened its newest restaurant in Fletcher Tuesday with a lasso cutting ceremony and an inaugural first steak cut. Read Story »
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The underground Main Street space that was last home to Sol y Luna will get a new restaurant with a different but still south of the border menu. Read Story »
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FLETCHER — LongHorn Steakhouse will officially open its newest restaurant at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, adding to the options on Airport Road's restaurant row. Read Story »
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SALUDA — The Purple Onion, a popular Main Street restaurant in Saluda for more than 20 years, has transitioned to new leadership under two employees who started working in the kitchen as teenagers. Read Story »
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2019 in Henderson County was a lot about planes, trains and automobiles and the usual reshuffling of restaurants. Many good things happened spoiled by a few misbehavers. My picks: Read Story »
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From serving up classic French dishes at high-end resorts to making sure orders fly out the door at Cookout drive-thrus, Mike Santacrose knows the restaurant business. Read Story »
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Hendersonville city planners have scheduled a neighborhood compatibility meeting for the public's first look at plans for a southside Chick-Fil-A. Read Story »
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The Art & Coffee Bar on Fifth Avenue East gets an early crowd from City Hall across the street, a 9 a.m. bump when shopkeepers open their doors and an afternoon rush for a caffeine pick-me-up and a pastry. Read Story »
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LAUREL PARK — In a market flush with pizza purveyors, you gotta do something to stand out. Read Story »
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Known for her creative and bold renderings of appetizers, tapas and entrees, Jesse Roque at first surprises with the newest chapter in her varied cooking portfolio. Read Story »
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Three Chopt Sandwich Shoppe, the downtown eatery known for its free popcorn appetizer and savory sandwiches, is extending its hours into the evening, adding blue-plate specials and possibly beer and wine. Read Story »
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The Baker’s Box, which has won a loyal following for its takeout and catered food and custom-made special-occasion cakes, is moving across town to a much larger location that will enable the chef-owners to add dine-in seating and an expanded menu. Read Story »
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The congested crosstown journey for those craving a Chick-fil-A sandwich could be a thing of the past in about a year and a half. Read Story »
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After the recent closing of Iannucci's, the Italian restaurant on Asheville Highway, the owner of the building expects a new restaurant to open fairly soon. Read Story »
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Garlik Vegan and Sanctuary Brewing are partnerng to open Inconceivable Cafe!, an all new cafe bringing a delicious lineup of food to pair with Sanctuary’s award-winning craft brews. Read Story »
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Sweet Thangs Cakes & Bakes is now open on Seventh Avenue, serving a variety of baked goods and other treats. Read Story »
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Mary’s Burritos has opened at a new, bigger location a couple miles up Asheville Highway from its original spot. Read Story »
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Sallie Mauldin Thompson, ice cream queen, matriarch of one of the area’s most renowned business families and one of the only people who will smile if someone calls her Piggy, was honored Monday night as this year’s Clifton J. Shipman Community Service Award recipient, the highest recognition bestowed by the Hendersonville Business and Merchants Association. Read Story »
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If it weren’t for arthritis in his hand and the onset of boredom, David Hamilton might still be spending his days on the golf course. Read Story »
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Mike Phillips and Chuck Connolly figure that many people who want to eat healthier don’t know how. Read Story »
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The new Shine restaurant earns a lot of superlatives. Read Story »
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The first clue that Mariscos is unlike its sister restaurants is what’s missing. When you sit down, no basket of tortilla chips arrives, nor bowls of sauce. What’s up? Read Story »
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Steve Bevins has cooked everything from fast food to high-end steaks to upscale Chinese. Until recently he ran his own kitchen, as the head chef at Carolina Bistro at Cummings Cove Golf & Country Club. Read Story »
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Just over 170 years ago, river partisans and road partisans fought over where to locate the town of Hendersonville, the seat of the newly formed Henderson County. Read Story »
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At Mike’s on Main, where you get a hefty side of nostalgia with your burger and fries, diners sometimes want to order a beer. Read Story »
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When Mainstay started the Dandelion Eatery five years ago, the founders knew they would train women who had come to the shelter to escape trauma. They knew a little bit about running a restaurant and a lot about pimento cheese and shrimp and grits. And they knew that a dandelion was a gritty little flower that grows under adverse conditions. Read Story »
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EDNEYVILLE — Raynard Walker learned the basics of cooking by watching his mother and grandmother and asking questions. Three years ago, he started cooking out of his house, promoting his roasted, fried and smoked meats on Facebook and launching a small catering business. Read Story »
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Ashley and Walker Covington had everything a couple could want in Raleigh — good jobs as a CPA and schoolteacher, respectively, and a big city with plenty for young people to do. Read Story »
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TUXEDO — Colleen Raulerson had spent weeks mulling a name for her taco shop when she had an epiphany. Her boys had done it for her. Read Story »
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When he wasn't sweating in the kitchen to shore up the short-staffed cook staff, Mark Lowe was greeting customers and reveling in the apparent instant success of his new venture, Brooks Tavern. Read Story »
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A new restaurant has opened in the 500 block of North Main Street specializing in crepes for breakfast, lunch and dessert. Read Story »
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D.G. Martin traces his love of home-cooked country food to his upbringing in Charlotte, where a football teammate introduced him to “the wonders of the annual Mallard Creek Church barbecue” — the exemplar of how “good barbecue and a host of friendly people make a meal into something memorable.” Read Story »
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Ask Richard Kaltenbach about his tasty and creative AlyKat soups and he responds with a question of his own. Read Story »
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If you tried to get a permit for a wood-fired barbecue pit like the one at the old BBQ Shack in Etowah, you probably could not do it, Peter Rath said. Read Story »
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Cutline In the galley of a Coast Guard ship, Casey Maness cooked like a cook and cooked like a chef. Read Story »
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Stephen Todd Thompson, a sociable front-of-the-house host and storyteller and avid collector of classic signs and other relics of the Old South, died on Saturday of a heart attack after several weeks of poor health, family members said. He was 59. Read Story »
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When George Ettwein opens the doors of the second Black Forest restaurant on Friday night, he will celebrate a homecoming. Read Story »
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Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. will open the Taproom and Restaurant at its brewery in Mills River next week. Read Story »
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A new restaurant on Asheville Highway will serve both Mexican and Italian fare when it opens this fall. Read Story »
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Bobby Rogers knows that people want to know when his Main Street restaurant will open and what kind of food it will serve. Read Story »
FLAT ROCK — Dustin and Shannon Zlacki took a leap into the restaurant business after selling their home and moving here from Pittsburgh last year. Read Story »
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The Hendersonville Historic Preservation Commission last week approved work on the new Renzo's Fine Italian Ristorante that includes a new awning and three new ground floor windows with awnings on the south wall facing Fifth Avenue East. Read Story »
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With the advent of sturdier barriers around outdoor dining tables, the city of Hendersonville is wading into a study of the sidewalk space and considering city code changes. Read Story »
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Although she loves the art of cooking now, Michelle Bailey is not one of those chefs born to the range. Read Story »
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Sitting at a corner table at the former Mrs. G & Me restaurant, Renzo Maietto can scarcely contain his enthusiasm for his new venture, Renzo's Ristorante. Read Story »
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While Hendersonville has plenty of ice cream and frozen yogurt offerings, the sweet treats are now available at ice cream shops in Mills River and Etowah, too. Read Story »
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In Hendersonville, you can blink your eyes and miss a restaurant closing. Not to worry. Blink again and a new dining spot pops up to replace the old. Read Story »
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Fatz Cafe is going back to its peach roots to celebrate its 25th birthday. Read Story »
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Declaring that "the economic environment for new investment is awakening," developers plan to resurrect an Upward Road-I-26 interchange project that will start with a Bojangles and could include a hotel, one other restaurant and retail shops. Read Story »
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Sol y Luna, the popular California-style Mexican restaurant in Laurel Park Village, is opening a second location in the former Cypress Cellar space below Main Street downtown. Read Story »
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The old Flight restaurant property will reopen later this summer serving New American cuisine in a renovated space with a new bar. Read Story »
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Cypress Cellar, the Southern Louisiana restaurant that has been serving jambalaya, crawfish etouffee and gumbo below Main Street for 18 years, is closing next week. Read Story »
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The Lightning's intrepid researcher answers readers' questions. Read Story »
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HORSE SHOE — Growing up, James Wilson learned to cook because his older brothers wanted to eat. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Dean's Deli is scheduled to reopen Monday after a renovation by the new owners. Read Story »
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Chef Michelle Bailey and the Highland Lake Inn have been selected to compete in the annual "Got To Be NC" dining competition, Fire on the Rock. Read Story »
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Moose Café, a breakfast-lunch-and-supper restaurant that specializes in a traditional Southern menu of cathead biscuits, sawmill gravy, buttermilk fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens and other country-style favorites, is coming to Hendersonville. Read Story »
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Mean Mr. Mustard's, the Beatles-themed breakfast and lunch café, has closed its doors at Fourth Avenue downtown and plans to reopen at Busy Bend in the 605 Kanuga Road space last occupied by Nib's Coffee Café. Read Story »
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Jennifer To and her husband, Xuan Tang, searched for four years for a place in the mountains for a second sushi restaurant. Read Story »
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Rooftop dining downtown, a bar and grill run by the owners of the El Paso Mexican restaurants, a café on Chadwick Avenue and a soup and sandwich shop in Saluda are all getting ready to open. Read Story »
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Moe's Original BBQ and WTZQ AM-1600 are launching a new singer/songwriter showcase the third Thursday of every month from 8 to 9 p.m. upstairs at Moe's in downtown Hendersonville. Read Story »
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Frozen yogurt is coming to Hendersonville's Main Street. Read Story »
Suni McMath says everyone has a memory of meals their grandmother made "and you knew she loved you.""We're trying to bring that menu back for people," she says. Read Story »
Hendersonville radio station WTZQ AM-1600 is highlighting area restaurants with a new on-air segment called "Chef Showcase." Read Story »
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Dave Rice and his partner, Erik Chandler, had long known that a weekend festival was likely to bring a big flock of diners into their new Main Street restaurant, Moe's Original Bar-B-Que. Read Story »
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A new program from the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is encouraging chefs to dig into locally grown products this summer. Read Story »
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Hendersonville's barbecue options are expanding. Read Story »
Ben and Sue Green decided they could not wait until the work on the 500 and 600 block of North Main Street is done. They have announced the renaming — and rebranding — of the former Living Room Coffee House and Café. Read Story »
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Richie Burlett's grandfather, Clif Shipman, had a dream. Read Story »
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A Miami architect and builder wants to open an upscale Italian restaurant in the former Flight Wood Grill property if a sale of the property is approved in bankruptcy court. Read Story »
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A Brevard restaurant owner has opened Mike's Pizza and Pasta in the old Pro's Italian Dining location at 803 Spartanburg Highway. Read Story »
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The restaurant business is never easy. Add a long recession and anemic recovery and it gets even tougher. Read Story »
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FLAT ROCK — Patrons can enjoy wine, beer and treats for $20 during the Henderson County Mayors' Advocacy Council for People with disAbilities Wine Tasting Fundraiser at 7 Friday evening. Read Story »
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A couple from South Florida plans to reopen the Bluewater Seafood restaurant on Kanuga Road. Read Story »
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With a kitchen and wait staff of more than 25 lining either side of the entrance outside, the new owners of Kesley's cut the ribbon for the restaurant's grand opening and admitted dozens of invited guests for a free dinner on Tuesday night. Read Story »
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Roula's Country Kitchen closed abruptly last week after its owners were charged with felony bad checks. Read Story »
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Bluewater Seafood, which offered an upscale menu of seafood and wine in an old two-story house on Kanuga Road for the past decade 10 years, became the latest victim of a slow economy that has battered local restaurants. Read Story »
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Three Asheville restaurants won top honors in the Best Dish in North Carolina competition, which showcases restaurants using local ingredients. Read Story »
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You can't blame the Wilson family for thinking that opening a second Square Root was meant to be. Read Story »
Kelsey's, a popular Spartanburg Highway restaurant that closed in the summer of 2011 after many years, will reopen later this year under new owners. Read Story »
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A visitor from South Carolina drove up to the Tractor Shed on Labor Day weekend, unaware that it had gone out of business. She was shocked to learn that it had closed. Read Story »
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The Tractor Shed, a barbecue restaurant with a country décor, a model train running around the ceiling and a devoted following among local diners and tourists, has closed. Read Story »
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MILLS RIVER — When Bradley Johnson and Nancy Waycaster opened Nancy Lynn's Diner and Pizzeria last Monday, they thought they had prepared. One thing they hadn't predicted was the crowds. Read Story »
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Square One, a popular lunch and dinner spot in the revived 100 block of South Main Street south of the Historic Courthouse, has closed. Read Story »
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MILLS RIVER — Restaurants are a doggone hard business. Read Story »
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