Dining options in Asheville, NC

Colleen and I are getting ready to go on vacation and will be stopping in Asheville for a night..I've got to see the Biltmore while the X-mas decorations are still up...

Any good suggestions for breakfast and late evening snacks would be appreciated

On a recent trip to Asheville visiting friends there, we ate dinner at the Moose Cafe. It was wonderful downhome cooking. I think we ate our weight in biscuits and applebutter!!! I have not been there for breakfast but can only imagine that it would be great.


Moose Cafe
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Moose Cafe

The Moose Cafe is located next to the WNC Farmer's Market. It's unique location allows the Moose Cafe to feature fresh, local vegetables daily. Warm, scratch made biscuits are there to greet every customer along with a signature apple butter. Southern favorites from chicken and dumplings to smoked bbq to buttermilk fried chicken are among the many home cooked meals offered on the menu. The Moose Cafe has been featured in "Southern Living Magazine", has been recognized in "Where the Locals Eat", and has also been mentioned by many local TV stations as well as in local newspapers! The Moose Cafe is a must if you are in Asheville!!
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Cost: $ - Budget

2006 WNC's "Best Breakfast" and "Best Cheap Eats": Voted by readers of Asheville Citizen-Times



Alcoholic Beverages:

* No Alcohol Served

Dining Amenities:

* Handicap Accessibility
* Kids Menu
* Serves Breakfast
* Serves Brunch
* Serves Dinner
* Serves Lunch
* Takeout/Drive-thru
* Totally Smoke Free
* Tour Buses Welcome
* Vegetarian Selections available

Discounts & Packages:

* Special Menus for Groups

Reservations:

* Reservations Not Available

Dan,

There was a posting on this a little while back when Heather was headed that way:

http://www.wineloverspage.com/forum/hotbytes/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4134&p=39809&hilit=asheville#p39809

Enjoy your trip , and let us know what you find. We may be doing the same sometime soon.

Deb

My wife and I ate at Rezaz the last time we were there. I highly recommend it.

http://www.rezaz.com/cuisine.html

We made an overnight in Asheville enroute to Hilton Head last August and ventured downtown for dinner at Bistro 1896 (located at Pack Square) which was recommended by one of our hotel clerks ....check out their website for the latest menu: http://www.bistro1896.com. Neither the menu nor the wine list was particularly large, but a provided varied balance of choices...very good food -- couple of the folks I dined with had crab cakes and thought they were great, while I had a penne and veggie dish that was SPICY -- but delicious. They offered al fresco dining, which was great during the summer as Pack Square is a magnet for lots of street activity and entertainment -- probably much quieter this time of year....we enjoyed it and would dine there again.

http://www.tupelohoneycafe.com/. One hour wait for a weekday lunch! Awesome! Enough said.

We also ate at Tupelo Honey for lunch and it was great. Not sure they have breakfast or late night dining.

We drove to Asheville on Christmas Day to visit the Biltmore Estate and try some new restaurants. The Candlelight Christmas Tour was lovely but we were really impressed with the Asheville food scene.

We had breakfast at Early Girl but were a bit underwhelmed. Breakfast at Sunny Point Cafe in West Asheville was great.

We were blown away by our dinner at Table. We decided to go with the chef's whim tasting menu and were not disappointed. You get to choose the number of courses for a reasonable $10 per course. I also had wine pairings for $4 per half glass. Five courses including dessert was a good amount for us. The standouts were the foie gras appetizer and the most succulent and perfectly seared sea scallop I have ever had. We returned to Table for Sunday brunch and really enjoyed the cardamom coffee cake with Amaretto butter.

I put together a Google Map with the places we visited and the ones we want to try in the future. Enjoy!
http://bit.ly/dine_asheville

We were in town recently for Warren Hayne's Christmas Jam http://www.xmasjam.com/. We ate at a nice little Tuscan-style spot in downtown called Fiore http://www.fioresasheville.com/. It was packed and we waited a long time to be seated, and then a long time to be served. The food was delicious (I had vegetable soup and some calamari to start, and then the house gnocchi). Because of our wait the manager came out with free cannoli and tiramisu for the whole table. That made it all better.

We hit the Early Girl for breakfast and thought it was quite good, despite another wait. The steak, eggs, pancakes, and coffee hit the spot after a long night of debauchery.

I second the Moose Cafe for Breakfast. Ate there with some friends over the Thanksgiving weekend. Great breakfast and very affordable. Plus it is next to what looks like that awesome farmers market. We did not have time to go as we were road warriors.
http://eatatthemoosecafe.com

Thank you everyone, for all of your suggestions!!!!

I'll give a detailed report when we get back home!!!!

Will,

Any idea if the Farmer's Market is open year-round? I saw from the pics that it's inside. If we do end up doing a getaway next month, it'd be great to have a source for Farm-fresh food ( albeit limited for the season).

Deb

Deb,
I found this site and it looks like it is open year round.
[url]http://www.exploreasheville.com/url]

Thanks, Will! It looks great, and I'm very excited that they are open year-round. The Asheville visitors site will come in handy too.

Deb

If you have never been to Asheville, NC then you are really missing out on a funky little mountain town that felt like an Appalachian San Francisco with a vibrant food scene.

Taking everyone's suggestion, we were going to try Tupelo Honey Cafe for dinner but I had know idea the place was so popular.
We walked by to peruse the menu and noticed they opened for dinner at 5:30...No problem lets walk around get a drink and come back. We came back at 5:00 and there was already about 30 or so people standing in line. I asked the couple in the front if it was always like this and they said yes and they were locals. So I figured we would come back and try them for brunch. When we returned the next morning there was no line. As we approached the door there was a sign stating they would not be open today because of some equipment failure. Oh well, maybe next time.

However the places we did try were all very good.
Mayfel's, a couple of doors down from Tupelo Honey, offered a nice selection of specials and a New Orleans inspired menu.

Corner Kitchen located in Biltmore Village,is where we had brunch after our disappointment about Tupelo Honey being closed.
There was nothing disapointing about our meal there, however. I had some of the best corned beef hash in my life that
was further enhanced by a nice creamy drizzle of horseradish and rye toast.

On way back home from the S.C. coast we stopped at Doc Chey's for lunch...If you like Yank Kee Noodle then you will love this place.

A great town for a short weekend getaway for a foodie and I can't wait to go back!