Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
September 3rd, 2010
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Want some tasty food at 3am or breakfast for dinner, then Mattie’s Diner is the place for you. Located at the NC Music Factory , Mattie’s Diner provides a unique atmosphere and great food at a reasonable price. Open late every night and open 24-7 on Thursday-Sunday. Check out our video with the co-owner Matt King to get all the details about this great place.
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A little birdy told me today that TabbedOut will go-live in NC soon, as in very soon. Ooh look! It’s an exclusive report!
As seen on NBC, Mashable, and The Food Channel, TabbedOut is a location-based iPhone and Android app that allows customers to close out their bar or restaurant tab (at an affiliated establishment) via their mobile phone.
Supported by FuturePOS, applications like TabbedOut (and other mobile forms of paying for consumer goods) are slated to alter the mobile consumer marketplace forever and the talk about them is burning at a fever pitch!
I’ll keep you updated!
A little birdy told me today that TabbedOut will go-live in NC soon, as in very soon. Ooh look! It’s an exclusive report!
As seen on NBC, Mashable, and The Food Channel, TabbedOut is a location-based iPhone and Android app that allows customers to close out their bar or restaurant tab (at an affiliated establishment) via their mobile phone.
Supported by FuturePOS, applications like TabbedOut (and other mobile forms of paying for consumer goods) are slated to alter the mobile consumer marketplace forever and the talk about them is burning at a fever pitch!
I’ll keep you updated!
Amélie’s French Bakery just signed the lease on a new location uptown, at the base of 330 S. Tryon (or as you might know it, right below the big “Charlotte Chamber” sign).
They’ll be serving pre-packaged sandwiches and salads, select pastries, and of course, coffee, tea, etc.
They won’t be strictly 24/7, instead saying they’ll have “event-driven hours”, in other words, staying open if people are there.
I ran uptown to scope out the location, and happened to find owner Lynn St. Laurent, who said she had been there since 6am. She showed me inside and let me take some video to share here.
Lynn says they’re aiming to open on September 1st, though it might be sooner.
Thanks to @UD400, who tipped us off on the location through Twitter.
Charlotte restaurant week is here again from July 16th-25th. It is your chance to partake in some of Charlotte’s finest dining establishments. Their are 88 restaurants to choose from in all parts of Charlotte.
We sat down with Bruce Hinsley to talk about what is restaurant week and all the hidden gems people should try.
Contest
We have gift certificates to some of the hottest places during restaurant week and you can win them by sending your best picture of your favorite restaurant week dish.
Grab your phone this week while enjoying your amazing meal and snap a quick pic. Then send it to “@cltblog” on Twitter with the tag “#CRW“.
That’s it. We will check out the photos and choose our favorite and you will receive a $50 gift-card to either Blue, Providence Cafe, The Capital Grille, or Pewter Rose.
Get out those camera phones and send in the deliciousness.
*The gift certificates were provided by Charlotte Restaurant Week and they are advertising on the site.
One week before I went to Pickles Farmers Market in NoDa, I was at the farmers market in Modena, Italy. My parents moved there a year ago for my dad’s job, and we were there to visit.
The market in Modena wasn’t your typical temporary, tent and stall kind of market. This was the real deal—butchers, bakers, farmers, all set up side by side in a huge building. The market was bustling with people, most of which depended on the local goods they bought. We hit a baker’s stall and my dad pointed to a number of tags that signified bundles for locals who bought the same goods every week—they were the valued customers, he told me. It was fun to see the regulars come up, rattle off some Italian and walk away with “the usual.”
So what’s all that have to do with Pickles? According to Cindy Hart, who co-owns Hart Witzen Gallery, the building housing the market on 36th Street, the lively feel of an overseas farmers market is what they’re aiming for with Pickles.
“I’m a big world traveler, and those overseas markets are so fascinating,” Hart said. “I like the markets in France and Korea. They’re in the middle of town, and everyone goes to get everything they need.”
Hart told me the gallery location was temporary and that they’d like to make a permanent move to the building across the street, which she and her business partner, Clayton Venhuizen, also own.
“Right now, it’s just on Saturdays, but eventually we’d like to make it an everyday thing, where regulars can have stalls with electricity and sell their goods to the community,” Hart said.
After an hour or so perusing the small, yet eclectic, mix of goods at Pickles, I’d say they’re on their way. There were people selling local fruits and veggies, salsa, coffee, beer, hand crafted bags and more. Hart said by 9:30, one of the vendors sold all of his fruit and had to go get more.
There were still a lot of empty stalls in the room, but I don’t think it will stay that way for long. Vendors pay just $10 a week for a space, and Hart is actively recruiting more vendors through Facebook and the Pickles website.
Emma Wallace, the nice young woman who sold me a lovely hand-made owl stuffed with lavender and rice, said she usually sells her stuff online through etsy.com. Then she heard about Pickles through Facebook.
“It was only $10 for a space and five more for a table, so I thought I’d come and give it a try,” Wallace said. “It’s going well so far.”
Pickles is open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
One week before I went to Pickles Farmers Market in NoDa, I was at the farmers market in Modena, Italy. My parents moved there a year ago for my dad’s job, and we were there to visit.
The market in Modena wasn’t your typical temporary, tent and stall kind of market. This was the real deal—butchers, bakers, farmers, all set up side by side in a huge building. The market was bustling with people, most of which depended on the local goods they bought. We hit a baker’s stall and my dad pointed to a number of tags that signified bundles for locals who bought the same goods every week—they were the valued customers, he told me. It was fun to see the regulars come up, rattle off some Italian and walk away with “the usual.”
So what’s all that have to do with Pickles? According to Cindy Hart, who co-owns Hart Witzen Gallery, the building housing the market on 36th Street, the lively feel of an overseas farmers market is what they’re aiming for with Pickles.
“I’m a big world traveler, and those overseas markets are so fascinating,” Hart said. “I like the markets in France and Korea. They’re in the middle of town, and everyone goes to get everything they need.”
Hart told me the gallery location was temporary and that they’d like to make a permanent move to the building across the street, which she and her business partner, Clayton Venhuizen, also own.
“Right now, it’s just on Saturdays, but eventually we’d like to make it an everyday thing, where regulars can have stalls with electricity and sell their goods to the community,” Hart said.
After an hour or so perusing the small, yet eclectic, mix of goods at Pickles, I’d say they’re on their way. There were people selling local fruits and veggies, salsa, coffee, beer, hand crafted bags and more. Hart said by 9:30, one of the vendors sold all of his fruit and had to go get more.
There were still a lot of empty stalls in the room, but I don’t think it will stay that way for long. Vendors pay just $10 a week for a space, and Hart is actively recruiting more vendors through Facebook and the Pickles website.
Emma Wallace, the nice young woman who sold me a lovely hand-made owl stuffed with lavender and rice, said she usually sells her stuff online through etsy.com. Then she heard about Pickles through Facebook.
“It was only $10 for a space and five more for a table, so I thought I’d come and give it a try,” Wallace said. “It’s going well so far.”
Pickles is open on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“There’s something in the air along a busy local road, and it’s not just exhaust fumes: It’s the smell of grilled steak, courtesy of what appears to be the nation’s first scented highway billboard.
The Bloom grocery chain, part of Salisbury-based Food Lion, hopes to catch shoppers by the nose by wafting black pepper and charcoal smells from the base of a sign along River Highway (N.C. 150) in Mooresville.”
“There’s something in the air along a busy local road, and it’s not just exhaust fumes: It’s the smell of grilled steak, courtesy of what appears to be the nation’s first scented highway billboard.
The Bloom grocery chain, part of Salisbury-based Food Lion, hopes to catch shoppers by the nose by wafting black pepper and charcoal smells from the base of a sign along River Highway (N.C. 150) in Mooresville.”