Swimming Through the Trends
Industrial pendant lamps have become trendy in vacation homes and rustic-décor gastropubs — thick-rimmed, steel, hanging low over kitchen islands and bars like pocket…
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The One That Didn’t Get Away
Local eatery Pisgah Fish Camp, owned and operated by the Hawkins family since 1968, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. As countless other area restaurants…
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Surviving With Flavor
“Hard as a hickory nut” is an old-timey saying, and presumably Hickory Nut Gorge holds a fair amount of this namesake specimen. But…
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Rocks and Water
In Western NC’s skittish entrepreneurial scene, where bistros and breweries pop up like privet bloom but often don’t last the season, the independent coffee…
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Say Cheeze
The happy success of vegan Sanctuary Brewing Company in Hendersonville proves that the meat- and dairy-free lifestyle, along with its goals of animal advocacy,…
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Hopping in a New Direction
The boxy neoclassical hotel holding down the corner of Third Avenue and Church Street has a chin-out look, like it’s never going to budge….
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Friday Night Lights
There’s a stagey little archway — something like a wedding gazebo, but with a neoclassical flourish — that separates the front room of The…
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Brooks Tavern: rich pub food and original ambience
It feels like an old-style bar car on an Amtrak train, minus the cigarette smoke — one long, narrow room chugging forward with…
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Quelle Surprise
Dat’s Cajun Café is hiding the best desserts in Hendersonville. They don’t do beignets, the de rigueur treat offered these days at so many…
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Boon Choo is an Alluring Blend of Flavor and Convenience
Sudajit Chubthaisong grew up in the countryside in northeastern Thailand, where, she says, her family ate the fresh vegetables they grew in their garden,…
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