Every Sunday this summer, Zink American Kitchen, 201 North Tryon St., will serve a family-styled, all you can eat dinner: salad, barbecue beef brisket, pulled pork, smoky barbecue chicken, corn on the cob, Carolina cole slaw, molasses baked beans, cornbread, summer pasta salad and peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. $18.95 per person; children 10 and under are free, but have a special menu.
New York Times writer Frank Bruni, a Carolina grad, will turn in his restaurant-critic credentials when his memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, is published in late August.