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Sahari Restaurant (4517-A W. Market St., Greensboro; 218-1207) is now serving Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine.

Specialties include Curry Chicken ($7.95); Kabob Mishakal ($8.99) with skewers of chicken, beef and Kaftah with roasted vegetables and Baba Ghannouj; Charcoal Grilled Lamp Chops ($8.99) or Chicken ($7.95); and a Baked Pasta with ground beef and Bechamel Sauce.

Pita wraps and subs include Grilled Chicken ($5.25) and Lamb and Beef or Chicken Shawirma ($5.95).

Other entrees include a Ribeye Steak ($8.99) with steamed vegetables and baked potato and Sahari's Beef Pie ($4.99) with special sauce.

Salads and appetizers include Tabouli ($3.25); Fatoush ($2.99), a salad tossed with fresh mint, scallions, red onions, red peppers and herbs; and Stuffed Grape Leaves ($2.95 for six).

Sahari's offers desserts, such as Baklava and Sahari's Sweet Pie, and smoothies.

Catering and buffet services available.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.

New restaurant in inn

M. Stephens, which earlier this year moved into the J.H. Adams Inn at 1108 N. Main St. in High Point, has closed.

Southeastern Hospitality, which purchased the historic mansion-turned-inn in 2005, has taken over the restaurant and renamed it Hampton's after John Hampton Adams who built the historic mansion in 1918.

Hampton's offers a "creative, seasonal, changing" menu according to the inn's general manager, Sue Stanley.

Chef Steve Smid, former executive chef for M. Stephens, is offering a French-New American menu that includes Rack of Lamb with Rosemary Demi Glaze ($28), Grilled Beef Tenderloin ($28), Free Range Chicken Stuffed with spinach and goat cheese and drizzled with lemon and garlic oil ($19), Rainbow Trout crusted with pecan and ginger with strawberry basil relish ($19) and Key Lime Raspberry Cheesecake ($7).

Hampton's offers indoor and outdoor seating. Starting next week, the restaurant will offer half-price wine and live music on Thursdays.

For a menu, visit www.jhadamsinn.com. For reservations, call 882-3267.

Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, 5:30 to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 5:30 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Sunday brunch is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Culinary benefit

The Chop House Grille at Mendenhall (4001 Meeting Way, High Point) will hold a fun-filled event from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday to benefit the Christopher Lee Holder Scholarship Fund.

The event includes live music, food, children's activities and a raffle.

The scholarship, named after the restaurant's executive chef who was killed in an automobile accident in January, benefits students in the culinary program at GTCC.

For more information, call 841-7156.

Anniversary celebration

Solaris Restaurant (125 Summit Ave., Greensboro) is celebrating five years with a party Saturday .

The event includes a summer menu dinner from 5 to 9 p.m., followed by free hors d'oeuvres and live music from 9 p.m. to midnight.

For reservations, call 378-0198.

'Dinners With Dad' benefit

Join the personalities of "Murphy in the Morning," a weekday morning show on WKZL (107.5 FM) radio, for Dinners With Dad at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse (3342 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro).

The five-course dinner with wine will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday or Friday. Cost is $100 with proceeds benefiting Murphy's Kids, to help out those in need within the community.

Fleming's will offer a Father's Day brunch from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday . For reservations, call 294-7790.

Wine and cheese for Dad

Grove Winery and Vineyards (7360 Brooks Bridge Road, Gibsonville; 584-4060) is offering an Ultimate Wine and Cheese Weekend for Father's Day.

For $12.50, participants get a sample of four gourmet cheeses paired with four selected wines.

Hours for the event are noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

For information, visit www.grovewinery.com.

Bakery offers ice cream

Soldano's Bakery (4925 W. Market St., Greensboro; 235-2100) in FantaCity International Shopping Mall is now offering ice cream by the cone or cup.

Owner Corey Soldano is also offering a weekly special of buy one cone (or cup) and get another free. The offer is typically good for two flavors that change each week.

For more deals, check out the coupon page at www.soldanosbakery.com.

Bakery closes

Panizzo Bakery (103 Muirs Chapel Road, Greensboro) has closed.

According to Ilma Vanucci, who owned the restaurant in the leased space, the building has been sold and the new owner has other plans for the space.

Vanucci says she may reopen later this year in a new location, but for now, she and her husband, Walter, will focus on their other Greensboro restaurant, Leblon Brazilian Steakhouse.

Restaurant loses owner

Greensboro's restaurant community has lost a valued member.

Vincenzo Errichiello, 54, died Friday.

Errichiello was a native of Italy and came to the United States in 1982 to join other members of his family in owning and operating one of Greensboro's largest and most popular restaurant chains, Elizabeth's Pizza.

"We take so much pride in serving Greensboro," Ciro Errichiello, Vincenzo's brother, says. "We start when we were little kids together, and then we end up here."

The chain, founded in 1978, has grown to eight locations in the Triad.

Vincenzo Errichiello's most recent restaurant was a location at Groometown Road, which opened in 2001.

Mexican eatery opens

Martin Ruiz, owner of the Latin market La Vaca Ramona (4515 W. Market St., Greensboro) says a small restaurant will soon open in a space adjacent to his store.

Ruiz had operated a restaurant across the street for several months but recently closed that location.

Summer menu offered

Bistro Sofia (616 Dolley Madison Road, Greensboro) is offering a summer prix-fixe menu from 5 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Cost for the three-course dinner is $25.

For reservations, call 855-1313.

Bakery extends hours

Got an evening craving for something decadent, such as a pecan bar or croissant, or just need to grab a baguette or loaf of bread for a dinner party?

Simple Kneads (227 S. Elm St. B, Greensboro; 370-4446) will remain open until 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

You'll find this quaint little bakery down an alley off Elm Street near the intersection with Washington Street.

Peruvian grill to open

A banner at 5553 W. Market St. in Greensboro says that Pollo Campeon, serving Peruvian-style charcoal-grilled chicken, will be opening soon.

Have restaurant news for Short Orders? Contact Carl Wilson at 373-7145 or carl.wilson@news-record.com.