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Mini pies from Durham's Scratch Artisan Bakery. Photo by feeb/flickr. La Farm in Cary for masterful renditions of traditional French pastries like almond croissants and pain au chocolat , a variety of hearty breads from ciabatta to rye, and – my favorite – owner Lionel’s signature white chocolate baguettes. Weaver Street Market (Carrboro, Chapel Hill [...] Scrumptious burger cake at NC State Fair. Photo by joanna8555/flickr. The John (with American, havarti and provolone cheeses) with a side of onion rings at Cary’s Abbey Road Grill, a double cheese burger at the lunch counter at Sutton’s Drug Store in downtown Chapel Hill, the so-rare-they’re-blue bison burger at Ted’s Montana Grill in [...] Because it’s only April, and it’s only gonna get hotter… Tangerine-thyme LocoPop. Photo by sleepyneko/flickr. 1. Mexican-inspired popsicles at LocoPops, one of the Triangle’s favorite summer stops. Try a “guest star” flavor (olive oil, gazpacho, sweet corn, etc.) then go back to the counter for a classic (Mexican chocolate, mojito, strawberries ‘n’ cream). Once a [...] Bun maker at Grand Asia Market, Cary. Photo from Grand Asia Market. Growing up in Durham in the 1980s, I remember my Yankee-born parents moaning about the lack of ethnic ingredients in the Triangle. They’d cajole visiting relatives and friends into bringing food from out of state – frozen pierogies, Kosher dills, cans of San [...] The Farmer's Scramble at Watts Grocery in Durham. Photo by sashafatcat/flickr. Any metro area with 100,000 college students and half a million yuppies is bound to have some decent brunch, and the Triangle is no exception. Here are ten of my favorites, from nouvelle Southern to dim sum. 1. The Orange County Special at Acme in [...] From North Carolina to India to Japan to Mexico and back in a single mile! Mad traffic in downtown Cary. Photo by Dako. The fifth in a five-part Foodie Walking Tour series. Previously: Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh. Admit it. You think it can’t be done. Nobody walks in Cary, right? It’s a sterile bubble of strip malls and [...] From barbecue sandwiches to bacon-rosemary chocolate in the Capital City A warm day outside the Raleigh Times. Photo by captainslack/flickr. The fourth in a five-part Foodie Walking Tour series. Previously: Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Durham. Coming soon: Cary. Not so very long ago, downtown Raleigh dropped dead at 5pm. It was a lunch-only town, a place for newspaper reporters, [...] Fish tacos, salted licorice, cupcake trucks and more in the Bull City. OnlyBurger fresh off the truck in downtown Durham. Photo by justinhenry/flickr. The third in a five-part Foodie Walking Tour series. Previously: Carrboro, Chapel Hill. Coming soon: Raleigh and Cary. When I was a kid growing up in southwest Durham in the 1980s, when the wind blew [...] From popsicles to pita bread in the “Southern Part of Heaven” Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. Photo by cc511/flickr. The second in a five-part Foodie Walking Tour series. Previously: Carrboro. Coming soon: Durham, Raleigh and Cary. Franklin Street, the most walkable part of Chapel Hill, is adjacent to UNC campus and therefore plagued with mediocre student-oriented burrito [...] Chocolate, tacos, pastrami biscuits and more in the “Paris of the Piedmont.” Typical Weaver Street Market scene, Carrboro. Photo by Brian R/flickr. The first in a five-part Foodie Walking Tour series. Coming soon: Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh and Cary. EVERYONE cares about food in Carrboro, the Triangle’s pint-sized hipster-hippie nexus. Just tap a local on the [...] |
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