25 February, 2015

Coffee Fest Atlanta 2015: Best Coffee Shop Competition

Comments : 1 Posted in : Coffee Shops, Events on February 25, 2015 by : The Gourmez

Tags: 2015, allison bouley, america's best coffeehouse, atlanta, black water loft, britt calder, cg pops, coffee fest, competition, cool beans coffee roaster, crystal gembala, finalists, jeff huey, joseph stout, kali malham, kaylan english, old-fashioned revision, peregrine espresso, photographs, seeds coffee, southeastern, strong beard, winners

Last month, I had the pleasure of covering the 2015 Southeastern Regional Coffee Fest, which took place in Atlanta. The Coffee Fest is a trade show and coffee education opportunity held in four different regions each year—upcoming ones for 2015 will be held in Tokyo, Chicago, and Portland. I’m writing a post on my favorite products
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8 July, 2013

Triangle Foodie Happenings

Posted in : Coffee Shops, Events, Restaurants on July 8, 2013 by : The Gourmez

Tags: american seafood, blu, coffee cocktail, competition, dishcrawl, durham, Events, five points, food, foodie, foundation, hope valley bottle shop, larry's beans, moore square, raleigh, red white and blue, seafood, the gourmez, tomato dinner, triangle foodie happenings, zely & ritz

It’s time for another Triangle Foodie Happening post, in large part because Dishcrawl is going crazy in the Bull City this week! What is Dishcrawl? It is a nationwide company that puts together one night events with the goal of focusing on a city or neighborhood’s cuisines. If you are thinking food tourism, you are
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17 December, 2012

Nonfiction Bragging: My Winning Cocktail, the Frosty’s Chocolate Orange Martini at the Washington Duke Inn

Posted in : Announcements, Cocktail Recipes, Dining in Durham - NC, Restaurants on December 17, 2012 by : The Gourmez

Tags: bull durham bar, cardamom, cardamom simple syrup, chocolate rim, chris thomas, competition, don ball, durham, fairview dining room, frosty's chocolate orange martini, grand marnier, orange juice, stoli vanil, sugar rim, tara skelly, terry's chocolate orange, washington duke inn, white chocolate, wrong answers are sexy

Frosty’s Chocolate Orange Martini at the Washington Duke Inn For the month of December, you can order a cocktail of my very own creation at the Washington Duke Inn’s Fairview Dining Room and Bull Durham Bar. I won first place in their Blog Nog cocktail competition for my riff on a Terry’s chocolate orange. It’s
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10 October, 2012

2nd Annual Triangle Chef Showdown

Comments : 1 Posted in : Events on October 10, 2012 by : The Gourmez

Tags: catch, catfish, chefs, competition, food bank nc, fundraiser, john mannino, keith rhodes, mannino's italian bistro, nc chefs academy, open house, pastry, pork butternut squash, ruckus, ryan payne, scott shabot, second annual, students, triangle chef showdown, weathervane

2nd Annual Triangle Chef Showdown at the NC Chef’s Academy 2001 Carrington Mill Morrisville Website Two weeks ago, I attended the second annual Triangle Chef Showdown, which was a combination of a fundraiser for the Central and Eastern North Carolina Food Bank, an open house for the NC Chef’s Academy, and a competition between four
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