20 January, 2012

PieBird

Posted in : Dining in Raleigh - NC, Restaurants on January 20, 2012 by : The Gourmez

Tags: bakery, chess pie, chocolate cream pie, dessert, dinner, downtown, lunch, mordecai, panzanella, pie bird, piebird, pot pie, pumpkin cheesecake, raleigh, review, tomato pie

PieBird 618 N. Person Street Downtown Raleigh Website Lunch: $4 to $10 Dinner: $10 to $14 PieBird is a cute little restaurant situated in the northern end of downtown Raleigh, almost at the Mordecai neighborhood. As one might guess from the name, its primary focus is on pies, both sweet and savory. For lunch, salads
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3 August, 2011

Carolina Crossroads

Comments : 2 Posted in : Dining in Chapel Hill - NC, Restaurants on August 3, 2011 by : The Gourmez

Tags: carolina crossroads, carolina inn, chapel hill, duck confit, fairview dining room, fearrington house, fine dining, heron's, hotel restaurants, ice cream sandwich, lamb, lobster spring roll, panzanella, papparadelle, peach ice cream, triangle restaurants, unc chapel hill

Carolina Crossroads 211 Pittsboro Street Chapel Hill Website Entrees $24–$30 Carolina Crossroads is one of the many fantastic hotel-based restaurants in the area, including the Fearrington House Restaurant, the Fairview Dining Room, and Herons among others. I’ve been to a few disappointing meals recently, and it was great to have a meal out that exceeded
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25 May, 2010

Farm to Fork 2010

Comments : 10 Posted in : Events, Restaurants on May 25, 2010 by : The Gourmez

Tags: 18 seaboard, 2010, acme, barefoot farms, ben whatley, big boss beer, celebrity dairy, chris mickinley, crumb, dig seeds, durck run farm, farm to fork, farmer chef relationship, farmer's daughter, four leaf farm, fullsteam, herons at the umstead, il palio, lantern, lil' farm, local food, locavore, lyons farm, mcadams farm, neal's deli, panzanella, perry-winkle farm, sunny slope tomatoes, tent events, walking fish, watt's grocery

This past weekend, I was able to attend Farm to Fork for the first time, an event I’d heard a lot about in the past couple of years. It’s basically a celebration of the restaurant-farmer relationships of the fantastic food scene we are blessed with in the NC Piedmont and of course, a fundraiser, too.
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