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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Bite Into $10 Pasta for National Pasta Day at Carrabba's Italian Grill
Posted By Press Release on Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 4:00 AM
In honor of National Pasta Day on Thursday, October 17, Carrabba’s Italian Grill is celebrating all weekend long - Thursday, October 17 through Sunday, October 20 - by offering their sautéed to order Spaghetti Pomodoro and Linguine Positano, featuring crushed tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and basil, with soup or salad for only $10.
For more information on Carrabba’s Italian Grill, please visit https://www.carrabbas.com/.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Dish on this: Charlotte-based chefs join ACF Culinary Team USA 2016
Posted By Anita Overcash on Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:46 PM
Folks who favor food over sports might be interested in the upcoming IKA/Culinary Olympics. These kitchen-based games are slated to go down Oct. 22-25 in Erfurt, Germany. Competing in these action-packed culinary games is American Culinary Federation's Culinary Team USA, comprised of two Charlotte-based chefs. Corey Siegel, a corporate chef at Electrolux and Jason Hall, an executive chef at Myers Park Country Club will both be representing the Q.C. Cheers to that!
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Food News Charlotte chefs hit the road to help flood victims
Posted By Alison Leininger on Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 8:16 AM
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Keia Is Hungry Eat this: Korean Fried Chicken at Kindred Restaurant
Posted By Keia Mastrianni on Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:00 AM
The ambience and warmth of the interior, reflective of its history as a century-old pharmacy, is one. The attentive servers and expert bar staff are another.
Chef Joe Kindred’s intense focus and attention to detail are notable while Katy Kindred’s front of house wizardry and wine expertise add to the magic, too.
Yet, there is something else at hand, a key element that registers almost completely in the subconscious– nostalgia, that thing that stirs the memory and transports one to their happy place. In this case, the McDonald’s drive-thru window.
Yes, Joe Kindred has found a way to make his Korean Fried Chicken taste like a McNugget. Of course, with a few flourishes. The dish, which can be found on Kindred’s dinner menu, is made with chicken thighs that are dredged and fried to an uncanny science.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Keia Is Hungry Eat This: Border springs lamb ribs at Bonterra
Posted By Keia Mastrianni on Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:55 PM
Inside this church turned restaurant off East Boulevard, the lamb rib appetizer might just make you see God.
Hartwick isn’t peddling your average Colorado lamb or even Australian racks. He’s working with Border Springs Farm, a small scale operation just across the North Carolina border in Patrick Springs, Virginia.
Craig Rogers, known to his devout followers as “The Shepherd” is producing some of the finest pasture-raised lamb on the market thanks to his keen understanding of grass and his hard working border collies.
Border Springs lamb feasts on a diet of high sugar grasses, perennial rye and red and white clover grass. The animals possess a much milder flavor than the average lamb product which can often hijack the palate with the taste of harsh mutton.
Hartwick takes a quarter rack of ribs and coats them in a dry rub (brown sugar, smoked paprika, cinnamon, red pepper, thyme, oregano, garlic and smoked sea salt) for 24 hours, which produces a sweet heat that’s down to caramelize when it hits a hot wood-fired grill.
Next, the ribs are smoked over oak and hickory wood before hitting the grill to seal the deal.
Hartwick brushes a fortified Cheerwine barbecue sauce on each rib and adds a schmear of tangy Alabama white sauce along with pickled onions and cucumbers to finish the dish.
Disregard the white tablecloths, tuck your napkin ‘round your neck and throw caution to the wind.
These ribs can only be eaten with your hands and reckless abandon. The rib is a layered mix of succulent, flavorful fat and tender meat with enough chew to invoke your primal tendencies.
You will want to tear every last morsel from the bone, caveman style, while chasing the richness of each bite with the cutting acidity of the pickle.
Don’t worry what that table next you is thinking as you sit in contentment with a glossy sheen lingering on your lips.
If they didn’t order the lamb ribs this time, they’ll wish they had.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Beer Checking in at Heist Brewery
Posted By Jonathan Wells on Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:06 PM
Some people enjoy their Sunday Funday on a lake, by the pool or simply escaping the heat in an airconditioned refuge. I opted for a fourth, dumber option — bike ride. At the end of that mistake, I needed a pick-me-up that brewery visits often provide. Sounds like a Heist kind of night.
Heist Brewery (2909 N. Davidson Street) opened in September of 2012 in the NoDa neighborhood, just blocks from brewing compatriots Birdsong & NoDa. It’s a brewpub, meaning there’s a full food menu accompanying their beer & cocktail offerings.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Food News Phat Burrito expand hours; Amelie's opens new shop
Posted By Anita Overcash on Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:19 PM
Everyone always has something to bitch and moan about. One place isn't open "early enough," while others are "too far" to drive to. So, here's to hoping this news inspires you to appreciate the little things (which can also be big things - especially if you're a fan of burritos and pastries!).
Forget Taco Bell, because Phat Burrito is now open for breakfast. The long time South End location is opening shop at 7 a.m. to serve its giant burritos - now with optional stuffings of scrambled eggs, sausage and more. Set your alarms and do what you need to do to make this an extra morning stop. Phat Burrito, 1537 Camden Road. 704-332-7428.
Amelie's opened its newest location in Carmel Commons on Saturday. This comes after expansions to Rock Hill, SC and Atlanta, GA. If NoDa and Uptown aren't in the territory you frequent, here's to hoping this sweet new spot at the intersection of Pineville-Matthews Road and Carmel Road is. And remember to say "Merci!"Amelie's Carmel Commons, 7715 Pineville-Matthews Road, Suite 34B. 704-376-1782.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Keia Is Hungry Eat This: Poppy’s Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheese
Posted on Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:30 PM
Word travels fast about good food. When it comes to bagels in Charlotte, the name that kept coming up was Poppy’s. Located at the harried intersection of Providence Road and South Sharon Amity Road, Poppy’s Bagels and More is doing true New York-style bagels, sandwiches, soups and deli-style sides.
It’s owned by Long Island native Ron Rippner, who named the place after his father. Well, his father’s nickname. Like many New Yorkers, Rippner couldn’t find a “proper” bagel when he first moved here, so he took to replicating it himself.
Of course, if I’m hitting up the bagel shop, there’s only one thing to order — an everything bagel with lox and cream cheese all the way ($6.99). That is, with lettuce, tomato, onion and capers.
Beer HB-625 rides again - sorta
Posted By Jonathan Wells on Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:26 PM
Oh Politics, I wish I knew how to quit you.
Just last month, there was a flurry of activity from craft brewers across the state, struggling to keep two bills on life support. Those two bills died in committee along with eight others; they weren’t even read.
The more contentious of the two, House Bill 278, was to raise the self-distribution limit for local breweries. It found itself square in the crosshairs of a campaign fronted by the North Carolina Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, which has long contended that raising the limit was “a no-fly zone.”
HB-625 was also drawn into this crusade; while auspiciously a bill that would allow for Contract Brewing to occur at a North Carolina-based brewery, it did contain language that addressed the self-distribution cap. Ultimately, the passage that exempted a brewery’s tap room sales from the self-distribution limit led directly to its demise.
Really quick Contract Brewer definition, straight from the Brewers Association: “a business that hires another brewery to produce its beer. The contract brewing company is often responsible for recipe development and handles the marketing, sales and distribution of the beer.”
Today, the language of HB-625 that didn’t ruffle the feathers of wholesalers is finding new life: inserted as part of HB-909 as that bill moved through the Senate’s Commerce committee. HB-909 originated as a bill that would allow for sales of “antique spirituous liquor,” products that have not been in production in the last 20 years. Now, original 2-pages-and-change bill has grown to a solid 12, chock full of other goodies.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Beer What's hoppening at Unknown?
Posted By Jonathan Wells on Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:16 PM
Editor's Note: Our beer writer is embarking on a self-imposed Charlotte-area brewery tour, visiting one a month. Here's his latest report.
Most of the time when I plan visit a brewery for these reports, it's either at the end of the month and I'm running out of time, or it's just a regular day and I felt like going. There's never a raison d'etre for my field trips until now: Unknown Brewing (1327 S. Mint St. in South End) was to hold its inaugural Improper Glassware Night today, and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity.
A bit about the theme, before I jump headfirst into the operation and the offerings: Bring in the craziest thing you can come up with that will hold liquid, and they'll fill it (up to 24 ounces), with a free growler prize going to the contest's winner. Entries so far have ranged broadly, from the pedestrian (liquid measuring cup), nerdy (erlenmeyer flask), sacrilegious (OMB stein) and stomach-turning (a Fleshlight: "I swear it's been bleached first").
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Salted Caramel Brownies 14
The thin layer of fudgy brownie is topped with a sticky layer of salty sweet caramel, which makes these babies addicting like crack.
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Back of the Box: No Boil Classic Lasagne 5
Not having to boil the noodles rocks!
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The Pioneer Woman's apple dumplings 8
These were embarrassingly easy to make for being so good.
