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Food & Drink
Shai Fargian, Yafo Kitchen and the Great Hummus Debate
I’m much more confident writing about food than I am actually making it, but every once in a while, I get the urge to turn my kitchen — and my life — into the scene of an accident. I don’t normally mind a food challenge. I spent the first six…
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The Perplexing and Altogether Indecipherable Riddle of La Belle Helene
At the end of a meal at La Belle Helene in Uptown, the bill arrives to the table tucked inside a paperback copy of The Iliad. It’s an obvious joke given this French restaurant’s Helen of Troy namesake, but if your meals have been anything like mine, you’ll think that…
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300 East Serves Supperland Pastry Chef Liana Sinclair
“You want to know my secret?” Liana Sinclair — pastry chef and goddess, currently to be found slinging rich, moreish, and glorious pies at Supperland in Plaza Midwood — leaned over her pimento cheese burger on a warm Saturday night at 300 East, almost daring us to reply. Here she was,…
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Supperland Makes Gallant Strides Toward Perfection in Plaza Midwood
Even the most self-aware aware amongst us can slip. At the end of a long day battling bias and whatever happens to be trending on Twitter, preconceived notions can be like blankets, and to be aware is to acknowledge at least this much. I’ll be the first to admit, therefore,…
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The Curious Case of Optimist Hall’s Xiao Bao Charlotte
Josh Walker isn’t an asshole, he just plays one on social media.The chef-owner of Xiao Bao Biscuit, the insanely popular Asian-ish eatery in Charleston whose ravenous fans include singer Michelle Branch, opened a smaller offshoot at Optimist Hall in March. Xiao Bao Charlotte, like its Biscuit brother, specializes in a…
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Enat Ethiopian Restaurant Is a Hidden Gem in East Charlotte
Enat Ethiopian Restaurant, located near the eastern end of The Plaza at the intersection of Eastway Drive, serves up some of the most tremendously flavored and invigorating food I’ve had in a long time. My first encounter with Enat was by pure chance, or rather, serendipity: While scrolling through UberEats…
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REVIEW: Paul Verica’s Latest Venture Orto Is Consistent Until It’s Not
Orto — Chef Paul Verica’s new Italian kitchen nestled between the train tracks on East 36th Street in NoDa — has everything going for it. As a new restaurant from a two-time James Beard Award semifinalist, it gives food lovers something to be excited about, especially after the year we’ve…
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