After eight years, Bespoke Coffee & Dry Goods owner Chris Batten is selling the popular downtown Wilmington coffee shop. The sale to bar and restaurant owner Robby Dow was announced in a news release issued Monday afternoon. Dow created the beverage program at Olivero with Sunny Gerhart and Lauren Krall Ivey after a four-year career as the beverage director of a coc ...
As John Willse and Beth Guertin, owners of Wilmington Wine bottle shop and now the recently opened Creative Tastings restaurant on Castle Street know all too well, sometimes your purpose or direction in life chooses you rather than the other way around. After a career in the restaurant business elsewhere, Willse found himself pulled to move back to his hometown of Wilmi ...
Genesis Block and Block Eatz, in partnership with Cape Fear Community College, will host Chef’s Vision this month at the community college’s North Campus. The event will feature Chef Yanni Lopez, owner of Cultura 311 and Paella Fusion, as the in-house chef at Block Eatz, a local incubator kitchen designed to foster business relationships in the food in ...
A new Southern-style, farm-to-table restaurant and a deli are coming to downtown Burgaw, according to a news release on Monday from Own Your Own, a local restaurant competition. The announcement comes after the contest’s original winner, Colorado-based chef Karoline Schwartz, opted not to move forward with plans for her Burgaw restaurant. The newly announced ventu ...
When the creative minds behind the recently updated Front Street Inn decided to add a coffee bar, they knew it couldn’t be just a coffee bar – it had to have the same international flair as the hotel. That’s how the Concorde Espresso Bar took off. The Alfalla Hospitality Group took over the Front Street Inn in 2021 and renovated the space, transforming ...
With an opening planned later this year, a new joint venture between Wilmington food truck Banh Sai and sandwich shop The Half is sure to be a hotspot for locals and tourists alike. Banh Sai owner Austin Belt said the decision to partner with The Half was a no-brainer. “It all started years ago when we were living in Charleston, South Carolina,&rdqu ...
Choosing beers for a taproom is not a one-size-fits-all scenario, said Alex George of Bowstring Burgers & Brewyard in Wilmington. George, who is part of Bowstring’s leadership team, chooses what to sell at the Soda Pop District establishment on Princess Street based on customer requests. They often want local brews, and social media can influence which breweri ...
One of the unexpected impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was the surge of shared and commissary kitchens, which partially filled the gap created by the need for restaurants to thrive or even survive in the altered food ecosystem. The Wilmington area, with its condensed, restaurant-intensive locale, was at the center of this growth. Players in this arena include End ...
Brunch Thyme, the latest venture for On Thyme and Glizzies owners Corey and Phallin Scott, will open this week. The take-out-only brunch eatery located in the Brooklyn Arts District at 1124 N. Fourth St. will officially open its doors at 7 a.m. on Friday. “Brunch Thyme is a cool swing on breakfast food but in an ‘On Thyme’ way,” Corey Sc ...
The owners of an Italian restaurant in downtown Wilmington have put expansion on the menu. They’re looking for a new location for Tarantelli’s Italian Ristorante, currently at 102 S. Second St. on the first floor below the Hotel Tarrymore. They want space for more seating, a larger kitchen, a larger pastry room, enhanced wine storage “and the abil ...
New Hotel Proposed Along Market Street In Ogden
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Businesses Reopen A Week After Grace Street Facade Collapse
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Tech Upskilling Cohort To Host First Wilmington Class
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A shortage of cybersecurity professionals influenced professor Ulku Clark and her team to slowly evolve UNCW’s offerings to now include eigh...
The planning for Pender Commerce Park began in the early 2000s when the county wanted to create an economic driver on its largely rural west...
Pender County Manager David Andrews is slated to retire this summer after 33 years in local government....
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