ShareTweetWhen my friend Ben, a grumpy biochemist, came in from out of town and wanted to go to dinner someplace that “doesn’t have to be complicated” I was in crisis mode. This is someone who has teased me for using canned pasta sauce. Doesn’t have to be complicated, my ass. I decide that Crafted! The
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ShareTweet  On Monday, October 22, a team of Avant Greensboro writers & friends visited downtown Greensboro’s food trucks, which are allowed to operate four trucks at a time on Commerce Place. They’re taking part in a pilot program, a taste-test if you will, to collect data for the City Council’s reevaluation of its current ordinance,
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ShareTweetRecently something had been bothering me. I’ve just felt strangely and subtly uncomfortable. It always seemed to come on as I was walking down Greene to my cooking job on Elm. I just figured that I was sick of doing kitchen prep or wishing I had time to work for the Obama campaign. Wrong. Suddenly
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ShareTweetThis is a guest post by local gluten-free fan Jeff SanGeorge, who will soon be interviewed here, so stay tuned. Zen Cat Gluten-Free bakery is growing into a new facility in the historic Glenwood neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina. Zen Cat is a three-year-old gluten free and vegan bakery that offers baked goods sold to
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ShareTweetChances are, if you’ve been on Facebook or Twitter in the past couple of weeks, you’ve caught wind of an awesome new catering project called The Great Escape. Last week on Avant on Air, we had the two chefs at The Great Escape come talk and tell us what they were all about. The Great
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ShareTweetOne of the most disappointing first-tastes I’ve experienced among my Downtown foodie adventures has been at Snack Bar. Perhaps it was the combination of the Pacman ‘C’ in its outdoor signage and its late hours that gave me high hopes for a quirky, midnight-oil dining experience. I’m sorry to say that its thoroughly pedestrian fare
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ShareTweet Greensboro hosts a number of above average Mexican restaurants, but to me if you really want to talk “authentic” you have to check out some of the amazing Taqueria’s we have in the city. While I haven’t been to all of them my stomach is happy to say it has been to Los Charritos
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ShareTweetIf you’re at all familiar with the historic college district of UNC Greensboro, chances are you’re also familiar with New York Pizza (or ‘N.Y.P.’) and its bubbly, crunchy-crusted pizza pies. It’s a Greensboro institution, for better or for worse. In my opinion, it is for the better. Every town, regardless of its student population, deserves
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ShareTweetWho doesn’t love Mexican food? It’s cheap, sloppy, spicy, and delicious. As far back as I remember the ritual of eating chips and salsa and drinking oversized Mexican beers with friends has been a part of my life. Kiosco takes your everyday Mexican cuisine and kicks it up a few notches with the same traditions
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ShareTweetUsually when I think of a southern kitchen my memory takes me to a place in a small town where I once ate surrounded by senior citizens, flies, and greasy vinyl booths. Lucky 32 is a different kind of southern restaurant. I made my first visit to the gourmet southern dinning room for my 3-year
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