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Barley's Taproom & Pizzeria has been a downtown destination for over 15 years. Fresh sourdough pizza, salads, pita wraps and sandwiches are served up daily. The stage showcases live bluegrass and jazz 2-3 nights a week with no cover charge. The downstairs bar has 27 taps featuring the South's best selection of local and regional craft brewed beers. Upstairs is the Billiard Room complete with a different selection of 28 craft brews, four regulation slate billiard tables that are available by the hour, and five regulation dart lanes. The upstairs is open LATE.
Pleasantly reminiscent of earlier time, Chelsea's Tea Room & Gift Shop in the Biltmore Village is a reflection of genteel society. Flowered linens, polished silver, and bone china set the scene for a delightful dining experience.
A popular place for lunch and afternoon tea, Chelsea's menu offers homemade soups, sandwiches, quiche, salads, and deserts.
Voted best chocolate shop in Western NC for twelve consecutive years, The Chocolate Fetish has been supplying discriminating chocolate lovers with handmade American and European artisan chocolates since 1986. Featured are Americas BestTruffles™ and Ecstacy Truffles™ ranging from the familiar Milk Chocolate and Bittersweet to the more exotic Ancient Pleasures (cayenne) and Dragon’s Sigh ( wasabi). All signature products are handmade using only the finest ingredients without chemical preservatives or vegetable oil. The Chocolate Fetish, Asheville’s only independent family owned artisan chocolate shop, has received national and international attention from Los Angeles Times, Chocolatier, Southern Living, Marquee, Our State, Sky and Candy.Enjoy and Give the Best™
Nestled in one of the original Historic Biltmore Village cottages, the Corner Kitchen is Asheville's most surprising restaurant. Serving breakfast (brunch on Sundays), lunch, and dinner seven days a week, we use the freshest ingredients in everything we do. We make handcrafted food
and drinks, with produce and meats from local farms throughout the year.
We have fireplaces when it's cool, outdoor seating when it's not, and can take care of your private party for up to 40 if you need us to. Chef Joe Scully graduated with honors from the Culinary Institute of America and brings his thirty years of experience to the Corner Kitchen. A lot of restaurants do farm-to-table but at the Corner Kitchen you will find that it's what happens in between that counts.
An honest interpretation of classic Italian tastes is what is on the menu at Cucina 24. Conveniently located on wall st in downtown Asheville, Cucina 24 has a romantic ambience and old world feel. The perfect spot for an anniversary or a business dinner of 20. Chef Brian Canipelli fully appreciates all the region has to offer and incorporates local produce, meats, and specialty foods. From hand rolled pastas to our notable list of Italian wines, Cucina 24 is the closest to Italy you can get in Western North Carolina.
If you ask chef / owner, Anthony Cerrato how he would describe his Tuscan-inspired menu, he’ll say “fresh, local, seasonal products that are prepared simply and artfully.” That idea is what makes Fiore’s Ristorante Tuscana a favorite for the locals and tourists alike. Set inside one of Asheville’s old historic brick buildings; Fiores’ ambiance breaths a sense of passion for love, art and food.
The menu changes with the seasons, but always offers original preparations of everyone’s favorite flavors... from calamari delicately crisp with a garden fresh marinara to Chianti-glazed steak or Zuppa di pesce, and of course the Tiramisu is unforgettable.
The Green Sage will lift the spirits and Nurture the well-being of its customers through its
Extraordinary fair-trade organic coffee, Natural & organic food, and Ecologically-driven business practices, and so doing will create a sustainable business and amazing coffeehouse experience for the Asheville community it serves, and a Respectful culture for the team members and Environmental resources it employs.
Tom and Marcy Gallagher invite you to visit Kilwin's Chocolates, Fudge and Ice Cream in wonderful downtown Asheville! We offer an array of tasty treats including hand-paddled fudge, handmade caramel corns, brittles, caramel apples and other delicious unique confections. Savor the flavor of fine chocolates. Choose from among 32 flavors of Kilwin's original recipe ice cream and enjoy a scoop or two on a home made waffle cone. We also have a variety of gift baskets and boxed chocolates for all occasions. Our friendly, helpful staff will ensure that you have a great experience at our old-fashioned confectionary!
From the plains of Punjab to the Malabar coast, the techniques, spice, seasonings and natural ingredients or Indian cooking have been refined over thousands of years, resulting in a cuisine unlike any other. Mela Indian Restaurant offers authentic North and South Indian dishes as diverse and vibrant as the peoples and regions of India.
Neo Cantina offers Handmade Mexican Favorites with a Fresh twist. Located in the heart of Historic Biltmore Village, We use only the freshest ingredients grown locally when available.
Come visit the sustainably remodeled Posana™Café located at One Biltmore Avenue on Historic Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Posana Café offers the community and its visitors a beautiful and comfortable place to dine, lounge, host a private event, or simply enjoy your morning cappuccino. Posana Café’s culinary team has created superb breakfast, lunch, dinner and brunch menus offering unsurpassed flavor, freshness and quality. All of Posana Café’s dishes, desserts and pastries are prepared from scratch featuring the freshest local, organic and sustainably grown ingredients.
The Red Stag Grill offers Asheville's finest gastronomic choices in a casual atmosphere where everyone feels warm, welcome and at ease. Emanating Old-World ambience with hand-hewn beams and tables, oak flooring, and intimate lighting, the restaurant also includes a dramatic lounge for socializing while enjoying brilliantly prepared libations.
Named after its Owner and Chef, Reza Setayesh, Rezaz is a fine dining experience with a smart-casual dress in modern decor. Our menu is Mediterranean consisting of cuisine from North Africa, Italy, Spain, Morocco and the Middle East.
We offer the finest herbs, spices, teas, exotic rices and sea salts. We carry many hard to find spices and products you cannot find in your grocery store. We personally make sure our product is fresh, fragrant and of the highest quality. We package by the ounce, which allows you to experiment as you journey through our wide selection.
We have prepared over 75 signature blends and rubs. Our unique blends are our own special recipes hand-mixed in our store to perfectly season your steaks, chicken, pasta, and vegetables or add incredible flavor to your dips and side dishes. We like to think that we make cooking both exciting and extremely easy.
The Old Fashioned Soda Fountain at Woolworth Walk is a fantastic place to enjoy some classic treats in the largest local artist gallery in Asheville. We're serving up delicious club sandwiches, hot dogs, salads and soups, then indulge yourself with a sweet treat! Try an ice cream soda, milkshake, malt or phospate!
Located in historic Biltmore Village in the original 1896 train depot is the newly renovated Village Wayside Bar & Grille. We offer new twists on the classics we all know and love. Owners, Mark and Polly dreamed of their menu while waiting on the perfect location, incorporating the midwestern and southern influences they grew up eating. Try the turkey reuben, slow roasted and brined in house with a sweet peach hibiscus tea brine, or Mark's favorite, the beef brisket, smoked in house and smothered in homemade Cheerwine BBQ sauceserved with hand dipped local Kolsch beer battered onion rings. Craving something more substainsial? Check out Potsy's Pigs, Hungarian style cabbage rolls, or filet tips over a bed of house made hummus.
Since it's opening in 1990, Vincenzo's has established itself as an institution in Asheville's downtown restaurant scene. An abiding commitment to providing our customers the finest, most complete evening out has led to numerous awards to outstanding food and excellent service. Combine that with an elegant, yet comfortable atmosphere and live Jazz, Blues and Standards every night of the week, we believe we offer one of Western North Carolinas finest values.
Being a tapas restaurant, Zambra is just about perfect for bar treats. While a full dinner, though quite an experience, can become pricey, sharing one of their light plates (the scallops are particularly delicious) and having a drink or two remains within the affordable range.
Zambra’s ambiance also encourages the sort of socializing that is the true lifeblood of a bar. There is, blessedly, not a TV in sight here to distract from the mood. Despite being in the middle of downtown, it’s a wonderful spot to step out of time for a little while, and get away from the crowd, maddening or otherwise.
2.5 Hour Walking Tour - Unique shops and elegant art deco architecture that make downtown Asheville a one-of-a-kind destination.
2.5 Hour Walking Tour - Representing a history all of its own, Biltmore Village seems to be cast in a time past.
"Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French
always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening."
- Art Buchwald
“There is no sight on Earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.”
- Thomas Wolfe
"Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat—that’s bad for you!"
- Tom Smothers
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart."
- Erma Bombeck
"There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us."
- Jimmy Buffet