August 6, 2009
Avenue Restaurant and Bar is set to open Aug. 14. The upscale restaurant is a centerpiece tenant on the first floor of the Center Pointe, Roy Carroll's condominium project created in the old Wachovia building at North Elm Street and Friendly Avenue.
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August 5, 2009
The New York Butcher Shoppe (3606-L N. Elm St.; 288-8900; www.nybutcher.net), an upscale retailer of prime meats, sides and wines based in Greenville, S.C., opens Monday at the Lake Jeanette Commons shopping center in north Greensboro. Brooklyn, N.
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August 3, 2009
Burlington is getting a Mellow Mushroom. Burlington native Joey Cathey plans to open the new location at 767 Huffman Mill Road in the location of a former Rockola Cafe. “I grew up in Burlington, my family still lives there,” says Cathey. &ldqu...
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July 29, 2009
Sai Thai and Sushi Bistro (2002-208 New Garden Road; 288-6777) has opened at The Shoppes at Brassfield Station, a new development a few blocks off Battleground Avenue in Greensboro. Sai is a showcase for the senses. And it's no wonder. The restaurant is a...
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July 28, 2009
GREENSBORO — New York Butcher Shoppe, an upscale retailer of prime meats and sides based in Greenville, S.C., is opening a location at 3606-L N. Elm St. at the Lake Jeanette Commons shopping center in north Greensboro. In addition to specialty meats...
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July 22, 2009
Mark Lile-King is looking to move both his Rioja! A Wine Bar (1603 Battleground Ave.) and his Wine Warehouse (2310 Battleground Ave., Suite 110). And he would like to combine the two. "We're looking at a concept where we can locate both in the same b...
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July 17, 2009
The sign in the window says it all: Thank You For Twenty Years. So there was no reason for Chuck Bodine to come to the door. A door that, by the way, remained unlocked even as a Friday lunch time approached. “I thought about locking the do...
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Passion Fruit, a wine shop and gift boutique on South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro has closed. In an e-mail, owner Tigress McDaniel says there was not enough support for the concept of the store. The wine shop, which specialized in North Carolina win...
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July 16, 2009
Dan Zanes exudes the sort of Pied Piper charisma that makes people want to get up and move. His multi-instrumental (trombone, accordion, fiddle), multi-cultural musical group he calls his Friends (Colin Brooks, John Foti, Sonia de los Santos, Elena Moon...
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July 15, 2009
Colombia's Independence Day anniversary is July 20, but Manna Bakery (4929 W. Market St., Suite 2102, Greensboro; 235-2782) is marking the occasion a day early with a celebration from noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. The small bakery at FantaCity International Mall...
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July 8, 2009
Margaret Elaine Gladney recalls how as a child she and her siblings would smell her mother's lemon pound cake in the oven and rush into the kitchen to watch it bake through the glass window. "Walk easy. Don't shake the oven or the cake will fall,&quo...
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July 1, 2009
Perhaps the Bible's Galatians 5:22-23 says it all: "...the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control." That's the philosophy behind Passion Fruit (318 S. Elm St.; 379-9161......
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June 24, 2009
Can a guy from Lexington get himself into trouble with his barbecue in the middle of barbecue country? He can if he's from Lexington, S.C., and there is mustard in his sauce. "I brought mustard-based sauce into the heart of western North Carolina bar...
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June 23, 2009
GREENSBORO — Bruster's Real Ice Cream is opening Monday at 609 Pisgah Church Road near the intersection of North Elm Street. The chain's first Greensboro franchise will offer 38 flavors of ice cream, as well as shakes, sundaes, ice cream cakes, hot...
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June 19, 2009
Noble's of High Point (101 S. Main St.) is closing its longtime downtown location June 27. "The location isn't as productive as it needs to be," owner Tim Applegate said. "The market has changed." In the current economy, he said, the o...
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June 17, 2009
Madison Park Cafe at 1310 Westover Terrace (275-3755) in Greensboro will reopen Friday. The popular cafe closed after the N.C. Department of Revenue seized the property last week. But owner Paul Shepherd says the issue has been resolved and he will open f...
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Kimberly Brown was enjoying the House of Blues' Gospel Brunch when she got the news. The events leading up to the World Tea Championship in Las Vegas had left her drained. Because of a minor family emergency, she had been unable to attend the award ceremo...
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June 10, 2009
More than 25 area restaurants, hotels, caterers and beverage distributors roll out their best for Taste, a culinary sampling and silent auction presented by the Guilford County Hotel/Motel Association. The event, a benefit for Greensboro Urban Ministry an...
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June 3, 2009
Three Triad restaurants have been chosen by The Goodness Grows in North Carolina Program and Our State magazine as finalists in the Best Dish in North Carolina Restaurant Competition. Restaurants that enter the statewide competition, which recognizes effo...
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May 27, 2009
And now for the Daily Double question: What longest reigning living monarch also happens to be an accomplished saxophone player? Answer: King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Not only has held his title of king for almost 63 years, he is also a jazz musici...
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May 20, 2009
When chef Carlos Brown took his wife, LaShawn, home to his native Charleston to meet his mother, LaShawn struggled to understand the Lowcountry Geechee that Brown's family slipped comfortably into. Brown had to translate for her. Then Brown urged LaShawn...
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May 19, 2009
"It's home cooking," says Chef George "K" Kourtsounis, executive chef of Taverna Opa! That is, if your home is Greece. The new Greek restaurant, with an interior designed to make you feel as if you're in a small village courtyard...
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May 13, 2009
Stevens Oyster Bar (313 S. Greene St., Greensboro; 987-1758; www.myspace.com/sobgso) has opened in the old Shucka's location across from the Carolina Theatre. Tony Stevens says he has brought the white-linen experience from his former restaurant, Grappa G...
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May 6, 2009
"Where do you want to eat tonight?" It's a simple question uttered one or two times a week by many of us. But for restaurants, the answer might mean the difference between serving another day or closing the doors. These days, disposable dollars...
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April 29, 2009
It's a busy night at Southern Lights Bistro & Bar, and Marygrace Llewellyn has been doing what's she's done nearly every Friday night for almost 17 years: taking food and beverage orders, consulting with the bartender, busing tables and pausing to cha...
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