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Things to do in and
around Asheville, North Carolina.
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Chere July 25, 26 & 27 -- 2008
Bel Chere Website
Appalachian Trail
http://www.nps.gov/appa
Thomas Wolfe Memorial
http://www.wolfememorial.com/
Biltmore Estate
http://www.biltmore.com/
Carl Sandburg Home
http://www.nps.gov/carl
Local Parks
Brevard
http://www.visitwaterfalls.com/
Lake Lure
http://www.lakelure.com/
Chimney Rock Park
http://www.chimneyrockpark.com/
DuPont State Forest
http://www.dupontforest.com/
North Carolina National
Forests
http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/
Grandfather Mountain
http://www.grandfather.com/
Historic Johnson Farm
http://www.mountainwonders.com/johnsonfarm/
Apple Orchards near
Fruitland, NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
http://www.blueridgeparkway.org/
Waterfalls
http://www.exploreasheville.com/what-to-do/outdoor-adventures/water-activities/waterfalls/index.aspx
Adventure in
Asheville & Surrounding Area
http://www.exploreasheville.com/what-to-do/results/index.aspx?typeID=&keywords=&ActivityCategory=13
Some of our Favorite Places to Eat in
Asheville
Barley's Taproom & Pizzeria
Phone: 828-255-0504
Housed in a renovated
1920s appliance store located in the heart
of downtown Asheville, Barley's serves fresh
sourdough pizza, lasagna and sandwiches.
Live bluegrass, jazz, and American music
nights per week. No cover.
Phone: 828-251-1300
Located on historic Pack
Square, Bistro 1896 offers creative American
cuisine with a decidedly chic twist and an
extensive selection of fine wines and
top-shelf spirits. A full lunch menu is also
available & Sunday Brunch.
Phone: 828-274-6333
Offering an open kitchen
and the showcase for our "field to table"
concept featuring cuisine inspired by the
estate's fields, vineyards, and farm.
Phone: 828-298-6530
Bonefish Grill
specializes in grilled fish (11 varieties),
steaks and pastas served in a polished
casual atmosphere. Enjoy a diverse eclectic
menu with rotating daily featured dinner
specials and wines.
Phone: 828-251-5565
Large picture windows
enable diners to watch the hustle and bustle
of Pack Square while enjoying choice cut
meats, pasta and vegetarian dishes. Private
banquet room available. Outdoor dining in
season.
Phone: 828-252-8220
Doc Chey's Noodle House
serves freshly prepared, tasty Pan Asian
dishes in a fast casual neighborhood
restaurant.
Phone: 828-225-4858
Fancy and complex, the
menu offers an eclectic combination of
French, Cajun and Indian cuisine served in a
simple yet artistic setting.
Phone: 828-253-2809
Well-known for its
commitment to casual fine dining and
attentive service. Superb menu features
mountain trout, crabcakes, lamb, duck,
steaks and more.
Phone: 828-298-5001
Authentic Indian
cuisine. Friendly, smoke-free atmosphere.
Lunch buffet seven days a week.
Phone: 828-254-0255
A lovely downtown
Mediterranean restaurant with excellent food
and entertainment.
Phone: 828-254-1148
Local favorite offering
antipasti, in-house made pasta, seafood and
meat entrees (including dry-aged steaks).
Open for dinner nightly. Celebrating Italian
culture at the table. Private dining
available for groups. Delizioso.
Phone: 828-252-3445
A totally vegetarian
restaurant specializing in international
cuisine that features fresh local produce
with mostly organic ingredients. Wine or
locally brewed beer available. Amazing!
Phone: 828-252-2327
Mexican-California
cuisine. Very good!
Phone: 828-255-0920
The Moose Cafe is an
award-winning country restaurant located
next to the WNC Farmers Market which has
been featured in Southern Living.
Phone: 828-254-5070
A quaint European bistro
with a variety of menu options specializing
in crabcakes and chocolate mousse. Enjoy
Sunday Brunch in our garden courtyard and
nightly drink specials at the bar.
Phone: 828-252-9805
A funky blend of Mexican
and Caribbean flavors, Salsa offers
innovative cuisine in a unique downtown
Asheville setting. All food is made fresh,
and organic and vegetarian fare are
available.
Phone: 828-253-1077
Savoy offers the perfect
balance between rich elegance and friendly
comfort. With influences from Italy and the
Mediterranean, Spain, Latin America and the
Pacific Rim. A gastronomic destination for
people who enjoy dining.
Phone: 828-255-4404
Southern home cooking
with an uptown twist, specializing in food
prepared with local and organic ingredients.
Enjoy our sidewalk dining. Located across
from Pritchard Park in the heart of downtown
Asheville.
Phone: 828-645-4700
Friendly hospitality and
good food await you at "Historic"
Weaverville Milling Company. This Buncombe
County landmark was a grain mill from
1919-1965. Today the "MILL" has a reputation
for fine food in a unique atmosphere.
Phone: 828-232-1060
Spanish tapas with a
Middle Eastern twist. Zambra has Asheville's
most beautiful dining room, most daring menu
and the area's most extensive Iberian wine
list!
Specialty Grocery Stores
The Fresh Market
944 Merrimon Ave
Asheville, NC
Our Favorite!
In 1982, Ray Berry and
his wife, Beverly, opened a small store
dedicated to providing quality foods in a
friendly atmosphere. Over the past 20 years,
The Fresh Market has grown because of our
dedication to our customers who enjoy the
same high quality and amiable service we do.
With a growing national market, we continue
to focus on stellar customer service and
strive to keep the specialty neighborhood
grocer feeling that our customers have grown
to love. The Fresh Market opened its first
store in Greensboro, N.C. in 1982. It was
the fulfillment of a dream for our founders,
Ray and Beverly Berry, to provide a unique
and wholesome grocery shopping experience.
Their goal was to offer customers
high-quality perishable products in a warm
and friendly atmosphere with a high level of
customer service. Recalling a time when
small, local grocers played an integral part
of the daily routine of the community, they
embarked on a daring adventure. They decided
to become a neighborhood specialty grocer
selling wholesome foods at reasonable
prices, in an intimate setting. Gone were
prepackaged meat, seafood, produce, bakery
and deli products. Products were
attractively displayed loose and unpackaged,
allowing customers to pick and choose which
products and how much of each they needed
for that shopping trip. The small size of
the store, high degree of customer service
and wide selection of fresh products allows
many of our customers to shop almost daily
for their food needs, thereby making their
mealtime offerings more wholesome and better
tasting. As the word spread about the unique
wholesomeness of The Fresh Market, nearby
towns started to ask for their very own
neighborhood Fresh Market. The company
started to grow with additional stores in
North Carolina. In 1986,The Fresh Market
opened its first store outside of North
Carolina in Greenville, SC. In the early
90's, the company expanded in Tennessee and
Georgia. The year 2005 saw expansion into
the Midwest with stores in Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. The Fresh Market currently
operates more than 60 stores in the
Southeast and Midwest, with plans for
continued expansion into areas that
desire the old-time value of our store in
their community. This family-owned,
privately-held company is committed to their
founding goals: to provide a unique and
wholesome shopping experience at a
reasonable price and to be a destination for
those who enjoy cooking and good eating!
Greenlife Grocery
I-240 at Westgate
Shopping Center
Greenlife operates two
full-service natural foods grocery stores
dedicated to bringing you and your family
the freshest and healthiest foods and
products available. No artificial flavors,
colors, preservatives. The freshest and
finest in Chattanooga, TN, and Asheville,
NC. Greenlife Grocery is proud to support
local suppliers of food and other natural
products, as well as serve the Chattanooga
and Asheville communities through education,
events, promotions, and sponsorships. The
original Greenlife Grocery was opened by
Chuck Pruett in July 1999, located in an
charming old corner grocery on Hixson Pike
in the Riverside area of Chattanooga.
Originally built as a Food King grocery
store, the Chattanooga Greenlife has about
8,000 sq. ft. Greenlife expanded with the
opening of the Asheville store in July,
2004. Chuck Pruett and his partner John
Swann transformed an old A&P grocery store
with attached laundromat, built in the
mid-1960's, into the new 20,000 sq. ft.
store. Greenlife Grocery Asheville is
located one block off I-240 just north of
downtown Asheville.
Earth Fare
Earth Fare is a full service natural foods
supermarket that serves the WNC community by
offering the largest and highest quality
natural and organic products around. We
believe that foods raised and produced with
minimal processing are not only good for
you, they taste better too. Stop in to
savor farmer's market fresh produce, fish
delivered fresh daily, beef and poultry
raised humanely without growth hormones or
antibiotics, an eclectic collection of
artisan wines and cheeses, packaged
groceries without added trans-fats, corn
syrup or other artificial ingredients, and a
large selection of quality-screened
nutritional health and personal care
products. Come in and enjoy a delicious meal
in our sit down cafe or take home dinner
form our deli. Located at 66 Westgate
Parkway in the Westgate Shopping Center in
Asheville, or on Hendersonville Road in
Skyland, 828-253-7656.
French Broad Co-Op
90 Biltmore Avenue
Asheville, NC
We are dedicated to
serving our members and the Western North
Carolina community by providing high quality
natural foods and personal care products
through a mutually beneficial exchange. We
support consumption of healthful and organic
foods grown or produced locally with
ecological and social responsibility. We
encourage informed choice and consumer
empowerment, with an emphasis on education
and customer assistance. We are committed to
use our profits to strengthen and improve
the Co-op community, and to provide a
livable wage to our employees. We pledge to
maintain a pleasant environment that fosters
goodwill, cooperation and participation.
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