Sunday Supper
by Liza Roberts photographs by Juli Leonard Raleigh gets top ranks for all kinds of things: education, employment, quality of life. Those of us who love it know that our city’s true value may be less measurable, but it’s no less real….
Category: Food & Drink
Inspired by the hunt
Brunch by Jesma Reynolds photographs by Keith Isaacs Brunch. It’s a tradition most food historians agree is as old as the 19th-century English field sport of foxhunting. Today, brunch is a hearty midday meal perfect for gathering friends and family to linger…
Nose so bright
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Missy McLamb Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Who hasn’t empathized with that fabled creature of holiday lore at one point or another? Whether you were teased by the Dashers and Dancers of the playground or weren’t allowed to…
Chocolatier Gabriela Miu Kropaczek
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Ray Black III The holidays are a time to indulge. Local chocolatier Gabriela Miu Kropaczek counts on it. Her company, Avenue des Chocolats, specializes in European-style bonbons with ganache centers that Kropaczek makes by hand. Born in…
Neighborhood meal-share
“We definitely look after each other – for food and for life events.” –Amanda Gaddy, member and co-founder of a neighborhood meal-share group by Jessie Ammons photograph by Jill Knight A group of friends and neighbors in east Raleigh has been sharing meals…
A punchy gathering
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Keith Isaacs Holidays have always been an interesting time in my family’s household. My father embraces the months of November and December with the goofy spirit of a thousand Clark Griswolds, my aunts call with fierce interrogations…
Turkey touchdowns
Confessions of a food-obsessed family by Fanny Slater photographs by Casey Toth My family doesn’t care for sports. Let me rephrase. My immediate family doesn’t care for sports. My 89-year-old grandmother puts a dollar in a jar every time the Mets win,…
Dia de las delicadezas
by Jessie Ammons photographs by Lissa Gotwals By 10 a.m. on a weekday morning, the kitchen at Centro, the downtown Mexican restaurant, is bustling. Sous chefs are chopping pounds of tomatoes for salsa; they’re frying nuggets of hominy for bar snacks and…
T.K.O. at The Haymaker
by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Keith Isaacs “Haymaker” is a term for a wild punch in boxing – a final, loose, unexpected blow. A knockout. It’s also the inspiration for The Haymaker, a recently opened cocktail bar in downtown Raleigh that lives…
If it ain’t broke…eat it
Raleigh restaurants that have stood the test of time by Fanny Slater photographs by Jill Knight When I was 7, I asked my dad how the vacuum cleaner worked. “Just like the light switches,” he said without looking up from a platter…
Peppers3
by Kaitlyn Goalen photographs by Jillian Clark Most enthusiastic cooks I know have an ingredient that they love to experiment with, something that allows them an exit ramp off the highway of cooking routines. For me, that ingredient is chile peppers. During…
Dram & Draught
Welcome to the neighborhood by Mimi Montgomery photographs by Keith Isaacs “It’s really all in the name,” says Dram & Draught co-owner Kevin Barrett, looking around the interior of his new bar, housed in a 1930s-era building that sat empty on…
Babylonian oasis
by Tina Haver Currin photographs by Keith Isaacs The zigzag of Capital Boulevard as it wends its way into downtown is often crowded, sometimes bumpy, and never particularly pleasant. But if you exit to the right just as Capital becomes Dawson Street,…
Sweetly Southern
by Leslie Maxwell photographs by Eric Waters Before 2015, Angie Tucker, 36, and Christin Kubasko, 28, spent their days as Wake County high school guidance counselors. Evenings, they baked. Using Tucker’s home oven and a standard KitchenAid mixer she’d received as a…