Featured Event of the Month Plenty of kids are picky eaters and will turn their nose up at a pile of vegetables on a plate, but have you ever seen some of those same children suddenly go wild for produce they pick themselves at a farm, garden, or even at the market? A child who grows or harvests his or her own…
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Bull City Olive Oil Coming to Brightleaf Square
There’s a new shop coming to Brightleaf Square this summer: Bull City Olive Oil, which will carry high quality olive oil, along with lots of other speciality goods you’re going to love. Owner Julie Steinhauer has lived in North Carolina most of her life. Her family has always been food lovers and great home cooks and her best…
Seasonal Ingredients at Boheme’s New Garden Courtyard in Durham
**UPDATE: Boheme closed in 2016 and the space is now a Korean casual restaurant and cafe called Namu** If you’re looking for a restaurant to try outside of your usual downtown go-to, take a drive down 15/501 to Boheme. This new Durham restaurant, open for just over a month, boasts fresh seasonal cuisine in an unexpected spot. In…
Register for North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Expo 2016
Featured Event of the Month July’s featured event of the month has to do with anything and everything in the restaurant and hospitality industry! If you’re a restaurant owner, general manager, caterer, chef, kitchen/bar manager, or working in the foodservice or hotel industry, you don’t want to miss the annual show and expo, supported by the North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association, taking…
Pizzeria Toro Owners Open New Durham Restaurant: Littler
Not long ago, many of us stood in line for fresh donuts and bagels at the tiny downtown Durham spot where the original Monuts used to be (110 E. Parrish St.). When Monuts moved to Ninth Street, the old space sat vacant, waiting for its new persona to be revealed. The owners of Downtown Durham’s popular gourmet pizza restaurant, Pizzeria Toro,…
Mateo’s Owners Open Two New Downtown Durham Restaurants
Foodies have been waiting a long while to welcome these two new downtown Durham restaurants to the scene: Mothers & Sons and Lucky’s Deli are a collaboration between the chef/owners of Mateo, Matt Kelly and Josh DeCarolis (who will be manning the kitchen at Mothers & Sons, an Italian trattoria), and Drew Brown, who will be managing Lucky’s Deli. Both restaurants,…