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In the Spirit or: Wine Down!

31 Friday May 2019

Posted by TGBII in Beer, Food, Life as We Know It, Spirits, Wine

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Downtown Winston-Salem, Food, Lowe's Foods, Music, Spirits of Summer, Texas Pete, WSNC, WSNC Food, WSNC Foodie

Salutations™!!

Tomorrow is the second annual Spirits of Summer festival downtown. To find out more about it visit The Man Who Ate the Town’s website.

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I’ll be hosting two chefs tomorrow at the Lowe’s Food Demo Tent. Come on down and see me, have great libations and great food!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“North Carolina wineries will be offering tastings and purchase of their harvest. Beer lovers also find their niche at the festival as several North Carolina craft Breweries will be on-site offering tastings and purchases of their brews. Local Winston-Salem Restaurants will also be on-site cooking up their best menu items in the Restaurant Pavilion for festival goers to purchase and enjoy.” – Spirits of Summer

A Reminder or: Hot! Hot! Hot!

01 Friday Jun 2018

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6th and Vine, Alma Mexicana, Bib’s Downtown, Biltmore Winery, Booneshine Brewing Company, Brown Truck Brewery, Bull City Ciderworks, Cauble Creek Vineyard, Duplin Winery, Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company, Foothills Brewing, Four Saints Brewing Company, Ginger Creek Vineyards, Hanover Park Vineyard, HOOTS Beer Co., Irie Rhythms, Jeffrey Adams on Fourth, Joymongers Brewing Co., Lake James Cellars Winery, Locklear Vineyard & Winery, Lowe's Foods, Meridian Restaurant, Mozelle’s Fresh Southern Bistro, Native Vines Winery, Noni Bacca Winery, Old Homeplace Vineyard, Old North State Winery, Pig Pounder Brewery, Providence Restaurant, Quanto Basta Italian Eatery & Wine Bar, Raylen Vineyards & Winery, Rock of Ages Winery, Rocky River Vineyards, Round Peak Vineyards, Skull Camp Brewing, Small Batch Beer Co., Southern Charm Winery, Starrlight Mead, Texas Pete, Texas Pete Spirits of Summer, The Man Who Ate the Town, The Old Fourth Street Filling Station, The Porch Kitchen and Cantina, The Tavern in Old Salem, Waldensian Style Wines, Weathervane Winery, West End Coffee House, Willow's Bistro, Wise Man Brewing, WoodMill Winery

Salutations™!!

I think I’ve talked about this already this week but The BCPF and I are going to be attending the Texas Pete Spirits of Summer festival. This would be weekend of the Salute! NC Wine Festival but that is no more. They have basically taken Salute! and the Texas Pete Culinary Arts Festival and thrown them together. 30688635_162162754448338_8223325916009332736_n

So, this festival is not just wine or food but wine and food in addition to beer. Yes, they’re still having a demo tent but it’s not the NC Food & Wine University any longer. It’s now the Lowe’s Foods Demo Tent and I will be hosting/emceeing the demo tent from 3:30p-5:30p. In addition to the festival, Foothills will have an afterparty from 6p-9p. During the festival proper, there will also be music involved.

Some of the vineyards and wineries that will be there are: Cauble Creek Vineyard, Ginger Creek Vineyards, Hanover Park Vineyard, Old North State Winery, Raylen Vineyards & Winery, Southern Charm Winery, Weathervane Winery, WoodMill Winery, Starrlight Mead, Old Homeplace Vineyard, Round Peak Vineyards, Noni Bacca Winery, Lake James Cellars Winery, Duplin Winery, Locklear Vineyard & Winery, Waldensian Style Wines,
Rocky River Vineyards, Biltmore Winery, Rock of Ages Winery, Native Vines Winery.

Some of the breweries that will be there: Booneshine Brewing Company, Bull City Ciderworks, Fiddlin’ Fish Brewing Company, Foothills Brewing, Four Saints Brewing Company, Hoots Beer Co., Joymongers Brewing Co., Pig Pounder Brewery, Small Batch Beer Co., Wise Man Brewing, Skull Camp Brewing, Brown Truck Brewery.

Some of the restaurants: 6th and Vine, Alma Mexicana, Bib’s Downtown, Jeffrey Adams on Fourth, Meridian Restaurant, Mozelle’s Fresh Southern Bistro, Providence Restaurant,
Quanto Basta Italian Eatery & Wine Bar, The Old Fourth Street Filling Station, The Tavern in Old Salem, The Porch Kitchen and Cantina, Willow’s Bistro, West End Coffee House, Irie Rhythms.

Those restaurants will be preparing food for purchase. The demo tent just requires your wristband. I know it’s kind of late now but advance tix are only $25 (which you may still be able to purchase on the website) and “day of” is $30. If you are there, stop by the demo tent and say hey to me!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Congrats!  You’ve Been Admitted to the Lowes Foods Demo Tent” – Texas Pete Spirits of Summer

Piggybacking or: the 40

27 Tuesday Jun 2017

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Dogwood Hops and Crops, Finnigan's Wake Irish Pub & Kitchen, Food, Harry Kahuna's Tiki Grill, Lowe's Foods, The Less Desirables Network, The Man Who Ate the Town

Salutations™!!

Today, I recorded the 40th episode of The Man Who Ate the Town Podcast. I’d appreciate if you have a listen. I talk about Finnigans, Dogwood Hops & Crops, a new restaurant coming to NW part of WSNC and Lowes Foods. You can listen HERE.

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Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“We are excited to announce the addition of Christopher Byrd as executive chef. Christopher is a native of Augusta, GA and graduate of Johnson and Wales in Charleston with many years of cooking experience.” – Harry Kahuna’s Tiki Grill

New Concepts or: Piggybackin’

23 Friday Jun 2017

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Food, Grocery, Kernersville, Lowe's Foods, The Man Who Ate the Town, WSNC

Salutations™!!

I’m piggybacking on The Man Who Ate the Town today but not for the podcast. I recently visited the brand new Lowes Foods store in Kernersville (it opened on Wednesday) and I thought it was a fantastic place to be. How fantastic? Well, read to find out, won’t you? You can do that HERE.

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Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Our commitment to local includes offering produce sourced through our partnership with more than 200 local farmers and featuring a wide assortment of unique local products found throughout the store.” – Tim Lowe, President of Lowes Foods

(Not So) Silent Sunday or: It Was Silent Saturday

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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1st Street Draught House, America, Finnigan's Wake Irish Pub & Kitchen, Heavy Rebel Weekend, Independence Day, July 4th, Lowe's Foods, Netflix, Pane e Vino, Quiet Pint, SILO Bistro, Small Batch Beer, The BCPF, Twin City Diner, USA, Wheelers Dog, WSNC

Salutations™!!

First I want to say that I am not bashing this town. I love this town. But, I equate it to being a parent to 3B. I support him in all that he does and don’t allow others to talk badly about him but I’ll be the first to point out when he’s done something stupid. That’s what I think happened yesterday. Now to give the story on that…

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Yesterday was, obviously, the 4th of July. Independence Day. I know it’s a day for cookouts and family and friend gatherings and all that stuff. We did it. The BCPF and I went over to my ‘Rents’ place and had hot dogs with the fam. It was good. But, it was a daytime activity. We hung out for a while and then we went home. Watched a few things on Netflix and decided we needed to go out and grab some food and maybe have a drink or two.  It’s Saturday night after all. SATURDAY NIGHT!!

We noticed the streets were dead. No one was out. We went first to Twin City Diner. Closed. Across the street, Quiet Pint was closed. 1st Street Draught House, closed. We drove out to Silo Bistro and Bar. Closed. We saw people sitting at Pane e Vino and breathed a sigh of relief. We pulled in and got out of Nigel and started toward the entrance. A lovely lady that I am familiar with came out and told us in a very nice way that they were closed. I asked why? She said that most locally owned places wanted their employees to have the night off. I replied quite gruffly that that was stupid. So, I do want to apologize to Nicole for being an a-hole. She was being quite polite and I was out of line. So, to her, I apologize profusely.

So what are all the employees going to do? I don’t see everyone of them running to a cookout like some smart arse suggested. There’s nowhere to go! If this was a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, I could understand this. But Friday and Saturdays are money-making days/nights. It’s a drinking holiday. It’s a birthday celebration. People go out for birthdays. I think it’s stupid to be closed. If you’re in business to provide service and make some money, you are open. You can’t make money if the lights aren’t on. You can say, “well it’s not about the money.” BULLSHITE!! It’s always about the money. You don’t go into business just because you love what you do. You go INTO the business of what you love to do. But, making money is the main motivator and if you say differently, you’re full of it. I had money to spend and other than Lowe’s Foods, no one got any of it. “Have you not worked in retail or restaurants during the fourth? It’s dead,” someone said. Yes, because you take all the options away when you don’t open.

I do know that a few of my favorite places, Finnigan’s Wake (Official Emerald Isle of The Less Desirables), Small Batch Beer (Presenting Sponsor of The Beer Dads Podcast) and maybe a few others around there were open. But, the bad part is that is squarely ground zero for Heavy Rebel Weekend and I stay as far away from that as possible. It’s great for them to have it but it isn’t my scene and not my crowd. I don’t want to be around that any more than Eugene wants to be around The World Cup. I mean, Finnigan’s is open on Christmas and Thanksgiving evenings. Like Opie says, “when you’re tired of your family, you have a place to go.” I wasn’t tired of my family but we had done our thing. And, I know it’s not just me. There are others looking for something to do that doesn’t require standing out in the open air getting eaten up by mosquitoes or other pests, grilling stuff and drinking half flat beer out of a keg pump and in Solo cups or something as ridiculous and mundane as Bud-anything. I find it hard to believe that I am the only one. Happy birthday ‘Merica, but you’ve made this town boring on your birthday.

I know this all may sound selfish but the most heck I got out of it was from the biggest “all about me and screw everyone else” person I know. So, I must have done something right. Again, I reiterate, I love this town, but yesterday, you let me down, WSNC.

It wasn’t a bad night, though, The BCPF and I went to Lowe’s Foods and got a rotisserie chicken, some many-layered salad something (she was kind enough to get rid of the onions for me) and some olives. I had vodka and dry vermouth at home, so I made my own dirty martinis and they were good. I enjoyed them. We watched more stuff on Netflix and enjoyed each others’ company. We always do, it would have just been better had we found a non-Heavy-Rebel-Weekend restaurant to share that with. Rant over. Soap box back in the corner.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.” – Dan Harmon

Silent Sunday or: Barking Up Pimento Cheese

17 Sunday May 2015

Posted by TGBII in Life as We Know It, Silent Sunday

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Brian Cole, Cheerwine, fried food, Got to Be NC, Lowe's Foods, pimento cheese ice cream, Silent Sunday

Salutations™!!

So I spent all day Saturday and all day today in Raleigh acting as a ringmaster or barker for the food carnival presented by Lowe’s Foods at the Got to Be NC Festival. It was a fun but very hard gig. I was on my feet for 10 hours yesterday, in a kilt and it was quite hot. I had on my black top hat with the decorative feathers as well and the sun was beaming down on me. I was drinking a lot of water, but as so often happens with me in the sun and heat, I swelled a bit. A lot, actually. Usually, it’s a small bit: ankles, knees, hands a little. I had to take my wedding band off, my watch off, too.

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The aftermath of the swelling

I drank a lot of water, a lot of water and never went to the bathroom during the day. What does that lead to? Well, like I said, it leads to a lot of swelling. Also, I had on those wool socks and the swelling was pushing. There were a lot of busted blood vessels from this. I can see the impressions of the socks (and my flashes elastics) on my legs today. I figure they’ll be there for a while.

But, like I said, it was a fun gig and I was well compensated. I figure I said “Pimento Cheese Ice Cream” over 4000 times.  “Frog legs,” “chicken livers” both about 3000 times. “Deep fried Cheerwine” and “deep fried sweet tea” about 2500 times. And “doughnut holes filled with pig parts and deep fried on a stick” about 1800 times. Some people said they stopped by just to see what I was pimping. I took pictures with people in the kilt including one older lady who wanted me to “show a little leg,” which I accommodated. They seemed to get a lot of kicks from that. Many thanks to Brian Cole for giving me the gig.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I love chicken. I love chicken products.” – David Chang

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