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Herons Part 2 — First Day Dinner Service
(Note — This is the second of several parts regarding my two days spent in the Herons’ kitchen.) Chef Steven Greene and I walked out to the front of the house to address the waitstaff, letting them...
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Greg Cox Names Top 25 — Er, 24 — Restaurants in the Triangle
News & Observer restaurant critic, Greg Cox, has named his top 25 restaurants in the Triangle, with Herons named as his restaurant of the year. There are a few new additions to his list,...
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Dine Out for Haiti
This Sunday and Monday, a number of Triangle-based restaurants will be donating 10% of their proceeds to two charities for the relief efforts in Haiti. This effort was initiated on Facebook by local...
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Locals Well-Represented in 2010 Beard Award Semi-Finalists
Lots of local chefs and restaurants are represented in the 2010 Beard Award semi-finalists that were announced today, including Crook’s Corner, Magnolia Grill, Andrea Reusing, Ashley Christensen, Bill...
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Scratch Bakeshop to Open Next Week
Phoebe Lawless, Durham’s baker extraordinaire, will be opening Scratch’s new bakeshop next week at 111 Orange Street in downtown Durham. For those of you who do not regularly visit the Durham Farmer’s...
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Iconic Restaurants of the Triangle
I’m about to start a series of articles on the iconic restaurants of the Triangle. I’ve visited two of those places in the past week: The Irregardless Cafe and The Fearrington House. To make my list...
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Coal-Fired Pizza Finally Here
I love pizza, and even mediocre pizza is pretty damn good. But great pizza is so hard to find — the Triangle has not had a great pizza place. And when I say “great”, I mean the pizza is hauntingly...
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Lucky Me Tastes the Menu at Lucky 32
You might have heard of Lucky 32, and you might have even eaten there over the years. There are two Lucky 32 locations, one in Greensboro and the other in Cary near Regency Park, and until last year,...
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Fearrington House — Best Restaurant in the Triangle???
Yeah, you read that headline right, and before you get too excited about this possible claim, realize that I’m not saying The Fearrington House is definitely the best restaurant in the Triangle, but it...
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Egos and Icons
I received an email the other day that included a press release about a “celebrity chef” event in Charlotte. I looked at the list of chefs participating and didn’t recognize a single one. Now I have...
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Restaurant Review Roulette: Fearrington House
Greg Cox is reviewing The Fearrington House this Friday. Greg Cox will award it 5 stars. I need not even offer any odds this week, as it’s that good. Any questions? ******************* Edit,...
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Restaurant Review Roulette: Bella Mia
Most of the places that Greg Cox reviews are restaurants I’ve never visited, and all too often, I’ve never even heard of them. I try to guess how many stars the place will get based on the...
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Southern Pies — The “Must Have” Cookbook
We all receive gifts from time to time. A bottle of wine, a nice piece of pottery, or a cookbook. On Sunday, my dear friend Nancie McDermott gave me a copy of her newly published “Southern Pies.” I...
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Ashley Christensen’s Take on Barbecue — With Fullsteam!
As I wrote earlier, Ashley Christensen of Poole’s Diner is preparing a very special barbecue dinner to benefit the Lucy Daniels Center. This won’t be any ordinary barbecue, however. Ashley cures the...
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Reverse Restaurant Review Roulette: Name that 4-Star Chinese Restaurant
The top of page 3 in the food section of today’s News & Observer had its typical tease for Greg Cox’s weekly review, which is how I usually identify the restaurant to be reviewed. In some...
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Adult Gingerbread for the Holidays
I love gingerbread. It’s always been one of my favorite flavors, particularly when served warm with some soft cream. It represents the essence of winter comfort food, not too sweet, with depths of...
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Bella Mia — Restaurant of the Year
Greg Cox of the News & Observer named Bella Mia his “Restaurant of the Year.” Now some people have asked, “A pizza joint? Restaurant of the year? Seriously?” My response: Most definitely. Note...
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An Amazing Event for an Amazing Organization
You like Herons restaurant in the Umstead, don’t you? And you love the Shimmer Wall, Marbles Museum and the cool ring sculpture on the lawn behind the North Carolina Museum of Art, right (it’s called...
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John Fleer — Rock Star — Stir the Pot
It seems that VarmintBites has turned into nothing more than a means to publicize fundraisers, but when one is on the Board of Directors of two different organizations having food-related fundraisers,...
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Magnolia Grill to Close
I just received and email from Karen Barker of Durham’s legendary Magnolia Grill. She and her husband, Ben Barker, both Beard award winners, will be closing the restaurant at the end of the month....
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