26 September, 2014

Oak Farm Vineyards Winery Expansion!

Comments : 6 Posted in : Events, Tasting Rooms in Lodi - CA, Travel Guide for Lodi - CA, Travel Sponsored Stays and Tours, Wine on September 26, 2014 by : The Gourmez

Tags: central california, estate, expansion, fishing, grand opening, lake, lodi, northern california, oak farm, tasting notes, tasting room, to visit, tourism, vineyards, winery

Oak Farm Vineyards Winery (23627 Devries Road) is on its way to becoming the first of its kind in the Lodi, CA, appellation: a family-owned estate that offers the full experience of a large-scale destination winery, minus the glitzy hotel and pretension. I took part in a media preview of their new expansion, which will
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21 September, 2012

The Cookery’s Front Room Opening

Comments : 1 Posted in : Events, Food Trucks, Stands, and Carts, Grab and Go on September 21, 2012 by : The Gourmez

Tags: apex salsa, bar, big spoon roasters, blakemere company, clever vine, cookery, durham, durham crisis response center, event center, farmhand foods sausage, food trucks, glutey tooty, grand opening, justin robinson mary annettes, local food producers, pop up restaurant

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the media preview event before the grand opening of the Cookery’s new Front Room. The Cookery, as you may recall from when I attended their open house last year, is an incubator for small food producers, providing kitchen use for folks selling all sorts of food products,
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23 March, 2012

Lumpy’s Ice Cream

Comments : 6 Posted in : Grab and Go, Ice Cream Parlors on March 23, 2012 by : The Gourmez

Tags: baklava, bourbon bacon, buck buchanan, chocolate, coconut, coffee cinnamon, extracts, frankfurters, got to be nc, grand opening, grass fed beef, hamburgers, harris robinette farms, highland games, hot dog, ice cream, lumpy's, maple view farm, mint chocolate chip, pumpkin pie, railhawks, scotch strawberry, wake forest

Lumpy’s 306 East Wait Avenue Wake Forest Website $3 a scoop Lumpy’s is a new restaurant in Wake Forest offering ice cream and easy eats like hamburgers and frankfurters. Their grand opening is tomorrow from 11 to 7, but that’s just for the storefront. Lumpy’s owner and ice cream creator, Buck Buchanan, has been serving
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