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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Food News Mac's Speed Shop opens a new restaurant
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:51 AM
Ride your hog down to Arsley. Charlotte's favorite motorcycle bbq joint Mac's Speed Shop just opened another restaurant off Sandy Porter Road. Mac's now exists in three locations (the other locations are on South Boulevard and in the Lake Norman area).
2414 Sandy Porter Rd
Charlotte, NC?
(704) 504-8500
Food News Deals of the day
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Here are a few specials at Uptown restaurants that you can cash in on today, Wednesday March 25:
Como's
1/2 price appetizers 5 -7 pm
1/2 price martinis
McCormick and Schmick's
$1.95 bar menu items 4 -6 pm and 9m
Blue
2 for $10 appetizers in the bar area 5 -7 pm
Mez
Free light buffet
1/2 price martinis/cocktails
Food News Special three-course meal offered at Fiamma
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Fiamma Restaurant in Dilworth is offering a three-course meal for $25 every Monday to Wednesday. You may pick one antipasto plate, a "secondo," and "I Dolci." Among the options are: vegetable croquettes, fresh calamari sauteed with avocado, veal, ravioli, rigatoni bolognese, panna cotta, and more.
Fiamma did a similar menu for Charlotte Restaurant Week -- three courses for $30. Now you are saving $5 and getting the same amount of food. Sweet. Check out these pics from Fiamma.
Wait, wait, there's more: Starting April 7, Fiamma will be offering a $7.99 lunch buffet. Buon appetito!
Fiamma
2418 Park Road
Charlotte, NC
704-333-3062
Food News March 25: Food News
Posted By Tricia Childress on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM
* Now open is the second 1900 Mexican Grill & Tequila Bar. This one is in Elizabeth on Elizabeth Avenue -- the street the city has made to look closed with the construction of the streetcar tracks and the widening of the sidewalks, but all the restaurants along that street are open. Construction is scheduled to conclude in June.
* Morton’s The Steakhouse, 227 West Trade St., is offering big-screen viewing of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Series on 9-foot drop-down screens with HD projection and Surround Sound on 11 speakers through Monday, April 6. Bar bites include Mini Cheeseburger Trio; Four Petite Filet Mignon Sandwiches; Chicken Goujonettes; Crab, Spinach & Artichoke Dip; Three Mini Crab Cakes; Iceberg Wedge Bites; and Blue Cheese French Fries. All of these are $5 each. Also on hand are Oysters on the Half Shell ($1.50) and Colossal Shrimp ($2.75). Reservations: 704-333-2602.
* Global Restaurant and The Country Vintner are hosting a Chilean wine tasting on Wednesday, March 25, from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. ($15 plus tax and gratuity). Wines will be paired with hors d'oeuvres. Wines include Vision Conosur Sauvignon Blanc 2008; Vision Conosur Pinot Noir 2008; Terra Andina Carmenere Reserve 2006; and Cousino Macul Cabernet Sauvignon Reserva Antiguas 2006. 704.248.0866 or www.global-restaurant.com.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Food News Caffeine Stimulus
Posted By Carlton Hargro on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:00 PM
This just in from the folks at Pura Vida Worldly Art!:
From now until April 15th, buy a specialty espresso drink, chai, or hot chocolate and get 10% OFF any item in the store including already discounted items*.Save further with our 1 Cup,1 Buck special: Enjoy a chico (12 oz) cup of hot daily organic brew for only $1 including tax.
Click on the link for Pura Vida's address and phone number.
Three-Course Spiel Meet the owners of Cloud 9 Confections
Posted By Ciara Lilly on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Nestled inside the Uptown Charlotte Plaza, Cloud 9 Confections is a welcoming, minority-owned bakery with desserts that will have you visiting several times a day. Cloud 9 Confections specializes in cakes and custom orders made from scratch. Not to mention the owners, Roland and Erica Baez-Horton, being a joy to be around. You will walk out with not only great desserts, but great friends as well.
Creative Loafing: Tell us some things about yourself?
Erica Baez-Horton: I love cake, can’t you tell! I was originally born in Puerto Rico, and then moved here to Morgantown, N.C., when I was 7 years old. So I have been in North Carolina most of my lifetime. I went to UNC-Charlotte, and then I fell in love and moved to Virginia with my honey.
Roland Horton: We have two kids. I love sports; I coach an AAU basketball team. Basketball is my first love. I am originally from Morgantown, N.C. And I have an associate’s degree in Criminal Justice. Then I met my lovely wife in 1992.
I saw on the web site that you all do eggless and vegan cakes; tell me more about that?
Erica: That came pretty much from one of my supervisors from Wachovia; she told me that I should really explore the vegan and the eggless world — she’s from the Indian community. So I decided to do the Festival of India with her, and I couldn’t believe the response I got from them. It was very welcoming, and it was almost like, “wow, finally we have a professional cake decorator who understands our religious beliefs in addition to our dietary needs.” We have extended our products to gluten-free, vegan and eggless. We are very detailed-oriented whenever we take orders to ensure we do the proper preparation for them.
Roland: We also cater to the diabetic community as well, seeing as how I’m diabetic.
Do you have a personal favorite cake?
Roland: My favorite cake, we have not baked here, but my grandmother used to make a caramel cake that was out of this world. That would be my personal favorite.
Erica: For me, being from the Caribbean we love anything with rum in it. I love Dominican cake, Pineapple Rum cake and a fresh pound cake.
Cloud 9 Confections is located at 201 S. College St., Suite 270 (inside Charlotte Plaza bldg). You can reach them at 704-334-7554 or visit their Web site.
Smorgasbord Simply peel and enjoy
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Huh? I am perplexed.
How'd they get the chocolate in the real egg shell? Are you perplexed too?
Bissinger's Confections is designed this "Chocolate praline creation crafted within the shell of an actual brown hen egg." Here's the online store description for the Ultimate Egg:
This confectionery marvel will have you asking, "Which came first? The chocolate or the egg?" Peel open the real brown hen egg imported from France and enjoy the chocolate praline egg that awaits inside.
It's like a magic trick -- I want to know how they did it! Maybe Bissinger's is really an alias some crazy Willy Wonka stuff...
Food News For you meat haters out there ...
Posted By Kimberly Lawson on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Cooking with Meat Alternatives Chef Camille will host cooking class where you can learn the difference between tofu, seitan and tempeh and how to best prepare them. Class includes recipes and tasting. To make reservations, call 704-749-5042. Thu., March 26, 6:30 p.m. Free. Earth Fare, Morrison @ SouthPark, 721 Governor Morrison St. 704-749-5042.
Food News Taxes are stressful -- Get free MaggieMoo's ice cream
Posted By Priscilla Tsai on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM
MaggieMoo's Ice Cream and Treatery understands that Tax Day can be a stressful event in one's life, so they are offering free ice cream on April 15.
Just visit any MaggieMoo's location to get a free single-scoop cone. The nationwide ice cream social will take place throughout the day.
Hurray for free comfort food!
Click here to see Charlotte's MaggieMoo's locations.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Food News Rita's giving out free Italian Ice on Friday
Posted By Taylor Eason on Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:41 PM
In a sweet respite from bad economic news, Rita's Italian Ice is giving away one free, 10-ounce cup of Italian ice per person on Friday, March 20 from noon until 10 p.m. In the 17th year of celebrating this First Day of Spring promotion, they plan on doling out one million ices at their 500 locations in 17 states. Find a Rita's Italian Ice near you.
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Recipe: Rose Water Tea Cookies 1
Cookies, tea and shouting. In that order. Ascending order.
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Photos: Mint Museum's Allure of Flowers After Hours
A peek into a fancy foodie fundraising event that incorporated flowers into, well, everything.
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Dish on this: Charlotte-based chefs join ACF Culinary Team USA 2016
As fall approaches, local chefs prepare for a culinary battle in Germany.
