In the AIR

Red Stag leaps into local
The Grand Bohemian Lodge’s restaurant is committed to telling the story of place In mid-September 2024, Elizabeth Santelises had just started her new position...
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Y’all Come Back Now
When Jill Rhodes purchased the Centreville Luncheonette in Woodfin, she became an integral part of the community The first time Jill Rhodes visited the Centrevi...
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Food for All: Food Connection
Food Connection brings surplus chef-prepared food to the community. Standing shoulder to shoulder in the spacious Mission Conference Center at AB-Tech, hundreds...
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East Meets West: Jerusalem Garden
Jerusalem Garden introduced Middle Eastern food to Western North Carolina three decades ago. Frank Badr eats hummus every single day, and he says if you do too,...
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Hooked on a Feeling: Taco Billy
Hunter Berry has always loved breakfast tacos; he had a feeling Asheville would too. Ask Hunter Berry how his locally loved and nationally known West Asheville...
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Music with a side of tacos at the Grey Eagle
Latin American cuisine leads Grey Eagle Taqueria’s playlist. TheGrey Eagle, a squat blue building adorned with a colorful mural and its name spelled out in vi...
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Iron Chef Black Mountain
Bev’s Steak is named for chef Jake Whitman’s grandmother Beverly, whose love of Iron Chef Japan sparked his interest in cooking. As the name of the restaura...
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Great Taste: Taste of Asheville March 26
The Taste of Asheville shines a light on AIR members and presents a feast of food and beverage for the culinarily curious. I’m hungry,” said no one ever whe...
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A Cure for the Common Cocktail
Post-Helene, Antidote found renewal through recovery Ironically, in the immediate aftermath of Helene, it was coffee that saved the day for Antidote, the cockt...
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Old School Rules: The re-opening of downtown institution Barley’s was music to locals’ ears.
When Barley’s first opened on Biltmore Avenue in 1994, Asheville was a very different place. There was no local brewery scene, tourism was the trade of the...
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