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Fine Dining in the Mountains

The ties to the region are strong – use of local ingredients, ties to old recipes, regular meetings with farmers – but these chefs create dishes a step or two beyond the traditional.

Locavore Dining: An Abiding Passion for Cooking What’s Out Back

These restaurateurs share a passion for the closest tie possible between what they cook and where they obtain the ingredients. The happy result is a consistent diner’s delight.

Great Dining Rooms, Great Recipes

These signature mountain restaurants earned that status the only way you can – with signature mountain dishes. here’s how to enjoy them and how to make them.

The Buffet Classic: Peaks of Otter

A blue ridge parkway signature tradition was interrupted for a time but the Sunday and Friday night buffets are back.

Chefs of the Mountains: Course 2

Katie Button found full flower in her love affair with food while living in Paris. These days, in Asheville, her background in France and the U.S. has found delightful manifestation at Curate.

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Fine Dining in the Mountains

The ties to the region are strong – use of local ingredients, ties to old recipes, regular meetings with farmers – but these chefs create dishes a step or two beyond the traditional.
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Locavore Dining: An Abiding Passion for Cooking What’s Out Back

These restaurateurs share a passion for the closest tie possible between what they cook and where they obtain the ingredients. The happy result is a consistent diner’s delight.
The origins of Early Girl’s sweet potato scramble: leftovers that had gotten a little too “mushy,” and bacon and sausage that happened to be around that day.

Great Dining Rooms, Great Recipes

These signature mountain restaurants earned that status the only way you can – with signature mountain dishes. here’s how to enjoy them and how to make them.
The build-your-own brunch buffet offers up a range of choices.

The Buffet Classic: Peaks of Otter

A blue ridge parkway signature tradition was interrupted for a time but the Sunday and Friday night buffets are back.
The Roux version of mushroom bisque is garnished with grilled baguettes and splashes of sherry.

Chefs of the Mountains: Course 2

Katie Button found full flower in her love affair with food while living in Paris. These days, in Asheville, her background in France and the U.S. has found delightful manifestation at Curate.
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Walking Oklawaha Greenway

Located just minutes from downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina, this 3.25-mile scenic pathway winds through forests and wetlands.

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