/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16178936
It's a nothing place

>>16178947
why? there's no good food?

>>16178936
Go to a barbecue restaurant preferably one out of a truck you'll be eatin goooooooooood. Maybe a lil diarrhea but worth it.

>>16178936
Chipotle

>>16178936
Leo's house of thirst, I am of course assuming you are not a poorfag

>>16178936
Fuck Asheville. Pack your own food, don't funnel any money into that city of sodomites

>>16178936
Go to the hot chicken shack. No, really.

>>16178936
Mike Rotch’s is a really good, local brewpub.

>>16179166
I've been here and it's really good

>>16179226
Can't find this place online

>>16179152
This place looks good but I'm looking for something a little more gluttonous for this trip.

>>16178936
Food there is ok but honestly the breweries are the highlight. Burial probably has my favorite. Wicked Weed has pretty good pub food and great beers

>>16179161
Big brain response

Trasheville is terrible.

>>16179236
>Mike Rotch
Say it 3 times out loud

>>16178936
You’re in flyoverville so I’d suggest finding a local McDonalds and avoiding the carnival meme food they call “a little bit different here”

Jack of the Woods is super good pub food and it's all satyr themed.

>>16178936
Asheville was a comfy mountain oasis 20 years ago. Now it's the Portland of the east coast.

>>16178936
Curate, Buxton Hall BBQ, and Chai Pani are among my favorites.

>>16179631
It’s cute when flyovers compare their one horse towns to relevant cities

>>16179702
North carolina is on the coast you retard, do you even know what a flyover is.

>>16179728
Flyover in the sense people use it here can be defined as: Irrelevant, lacking in a notable cultural identity to set it apart from the rest of the country and typically only serves as a pit stop for travelers heading to other locations

NC fits the bill

>>16179759
You've never been. Asheville is an incredible town and NC is a financial hub.

>>16179765
Incredibly gay. I live in NC and I hate that place. Go south on the Blue Ridge Parkway to get the real mountains

>>16179728
Asheville is about as far away from the ocean as you can get and still be in NC, genius

>>16179770
I guess it's a grass is greener situation. I live in north georgia (not ATL) and I love the mountains. Asheville was so unique to me.

>>16179161
Based Carolina anon

Asheville is literally the only good city in North Carolina. Ignore the hillbilly retards who get triggered whenever they see a girl with pink hair and a nose ring.

>>16179904
it's the guys with pink hair and nose rings I can do without

>>16179161
This. The place should be quarantined.

>>16179403
Sorry, I don't speak faggot

moving to Raleigh soon and based on what you guys are saying I'm glad I did not choose Asheville, i fucking hate it in Portland and want nothing to do with cities even similar

>>16180510
Asheville was really good a few years ago but it has gone downhill hard in the last 10. Raleigh sucks too tho lol.
t. lived in Asheville and then went to UNC which is in a suburb of raleigh

>>16178936
We had our honeymoon in Asheville 14 years ago, I hope it's changed since then because all the restaurants closed downtown at like 6:00. I think the best place we ate there all week was Papa's & Beer, unironically.

Go to Plant, I’m not even vegan and it’s one of the best meals I’ve ever had. It will balance out the inevitable trip to 12 bones or biscuithead you will make as well.

>>16178936
its a shame so many beautiful places are populated by undesirables

>>16181114
Were you there on a Sunday or something? I go to Asheville several times a year (have family there) and downtown is lively until late almost every night.

>>16181229
>its a shame so many beautiful places are populated by undesirables
Harsh on Americans

>>16178936
hey OP, don't listen to the faggots shitting up the thread, there's lots of good food and times to be had in Asheville. Really has alot of good american fusion stuff and a relatively famous basque style tapas place, Curate.
Asheville is most known for the beer due to numerous breweries, ranging from great to good. I'd avoid Green Man though

Here are a few suggestions

>BBQ
12 Bones
Buxton Hall

>Good Food
The Admiral
Rhubarb
Curate
Forestry Camp

>Breweries/Brew pubs
Burial
Hi-Wire
Bhramari
DSSOLVR

>Late Nite
Sly Grog

^ This man knows his Asheville. I'll just add that I personally enjoyed Green Man but ymmv. Wicked Weed also has really good bar food.

Red Stag

>>16182566
No Asheville used to be dead by 8 back in the early 2000s
t. asheville native

>>16179702
Imagine wanting to be a city-dwelling bugman. I'll laugh when you get culturally enriched.

Go eat some beans and malt liquor with the vibrant homeless community

>>16181229
I assume you're talking about most of rural America

>>16179759
Yep you’re a faggot

>>16179759
>>16179765
Fun bit of trivia, when I was visiting down there, a local told me they call New Yorkers "half-backers" down there, because eventually they get old and decide, fuck the city, I'm retiring to Florida. Then they get there, realize how goddamned hot it is down there, and move half-way back, landing in Asheville and Charleston.

>>16178936
hey, bro. im an asheville fag and ahve been living here a while here are some spots.

>best bbq: bears smokehouse, luellas (get the chickn sandwich, best ive ever had), 12 bones, rockys hot chicken
>thai: little bee thai
>indian: indian garden
>american: the vault makes a mean burger
>breakfast: the med, tastee diner, sunny point, biscuity head

If u wanna grab drinks or something, hmu. enjoy your time here, and dont tip the bums, they are all useless and here on their own accord and are literal leeches. also, dont drive like a faggot. too many pussy tourists clog the already shitty highways. if u want other things to do, just lmk. i can hook you up with some fun, non-touristy things to do.

>>16183739
meant to say buxton hall for the chicken sandwich. also, if you wanna get REALLY hammered, go to the CLT street pub and grill. it is where i get drunk most of the time and they pour really heavy. it is the least tourist bar in the city outside of like double crowne and someof the other dives.

>>16183739
Hey, wasn't 12 Bones on that youtube video where an American was letting North Vietnamese refugees try American barbecue for the first time? That was a fun video.

>>16183742
not sure. i know obama went there when he went through. personally, i think its a little overrated and their hours are kind of weird, so i dont go as often. bears smokehouse has the best ribs imo, and luellas has some really good smoked chicken wings. moes is also a really good spot, they also have fantastic smoked wings.

>>16183739
The bacon at Sunny Point is god-tier. I usually get the huevos rancheros with a side order of bacon when I go.

>>16183788
yea, it is man. they used to have an awesome blackened chicken sandwich i would get all the time when i lived in w.asheville off state st. their breakfast burrito and MGB sandwich are also god-tier. fuck, man, i might go there this weekend. my fag friend is visiting tho and he only eats chain garbage, so well probably end up going to cracker barrel again for the umpteenth time.

>>16183788
>>16183739
if you are there over the weekend and decide you want to try Sunny Point for breakfast get there as early as possible. There is almost always a wait but they have a cool little garden you can explore so you aren't sitting around doing nothing

>>16182651

Asheville is trash. It's a shitty Austin and PDX but with carpetbaggers, faggots, and insufferable bums.

Fuck Asheville, fuck Biltmore, and fuck Buncombe.

>>16182651
Mike Rotch’s is REALLY good if you like brew pubs

>>16184525
seething hendersonville fag.

>>16183739
Biscuit Head lol, its Subway for biscuits, dry catheads at that. Hipster bullshit like most offers in this thread.

>>16184525
>PDX
why do redditors do this? just say the city

>>16183739
>a town of less than 100k people in bumfuck nowhere north carolina has thai and indian restaurants
its too late isnt it? it really is too late to do anything

>>16178936
r*ddit IPA city

>>16185601
That's what people who live there call it, retard (and pdx isn't reddit; reddit is not hipster).

>>16185643
>That's what people who live there call it
because its the most reddit city
>and pdx isn't reddit; reddit is not hipster
lol

>>16185656
>the most reddit city
That would be Chicago, and the midwest in general.

>>16185661
>the midwest
>more reddit than portland
lol, just stop.

>>16185666
You obviously have no clue what you're talking about.

>>16178936
asheville is shit
Bonfire BBQ was pretty good

>>16185670
yeah those corn farmers in iowa sure are reddit

>>16179236
Mike Rotch has the best vanilla milkshakes in town. Ask for seating in the back and they'll make it right there in front of you. It can be a bit messy tho. Bring napkins.

from someone I know:

Breakfast:
Biscuit Head (actually visited this, great biscuits and coffee)
Ultra Coffee BaR

Coffee:
High Five
Trade & Lore
PennyCup Coffee Co.

CASUAL DINING:
White Duck Taco
Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge (burgers)
Laughing seed cafe
Itto Ramen Bar & tapas

More ~fancy~ dining options:
Red ginger dimsum & tapas
Jargon
Rhubarb (sometimes overrated, I prefer Jargon or Curate more)
Curate
The bull & beggar
Posana
Bouchan


Baked Goods & Doughnuts:
Vortex
Hole Doughnuts
Owl Bakery
Geraldine’s
French Broad Chocolate Lounge

I just sold a $83k software contract to the city of Asheville, so I like them

>>16185680
Yes, actually they are. Hipsters in PDX or Brooklyn aren't using fucking reddit; that's literally the definition of mainstream.

>>16187701
lol ok faggot

>>16178936
>What is Asheville even known for when it comes to food?

it's not, it's known for wine perhaps and weed.

>>16179759
A coastal state can't be a flyover you absolute retard. NC is headquarters of several of the countries largest banks and financial companies, and its coast is full of high end luxury vacation destinations

>>16187701
Hipsters are pretty mainstream retard, they just think they aren't.

Mike Rotch’s is one of the better brew pubs. They have a tasty stout, and the steak tips are to die for.

>>16185567
Fuck off nigger. You probably eat at fucking strada and think that’s real Italian food you invited fag. Also, I don’t even like biscuit head, but I can still make a suggestion to someone based off its popularity

>>16188549
Outed for phone Posting...
>inbred*

>>16182651
buxton hall sucks
foggy mountain has good wings
heiwa shokudo is most authentic japanese ive had outside of japan.
limones has great ceviche

>>16183742
yes. its also where obama got his bbq when he was visiting.

>>16188573
Dude you HAVE to try Mike Rotch’s.
Guy is a genius.

>>16188573
limones is solid. gonna be honest, not a fan of heiwa at all, im surprsied it's as good as you have had outside of japan. foggy mountain is good but its always so fucking crowded. i like the wings at barrelhouse a lot.

Last time I was in Asheville I was almost involved in a gangbang with an old lady. Odd day. Not going back there for awhile.

>>16178936
I just went there a few weekends ago with a group of people. We'd park at the wall street parking garage and wander around from there. I'll do a format like >>16182651 for the places I remember
>Breakfast
Early Girl Eatery, good food and drinks
Tupelo Honey - this was good but there's others around the country so I wouldn't waste time going here when there's others
>BBQ
12 Bones
>Breweries
Burial
Wedge (walking distance from 12 Bones, I liked their Belgian strong ale)
Wicked Weed Funkatorium - mainly sours, I'm not a big fan but they had some good stuff. The people in my group who did like sours really liked this spot
>Bars
Yacht Club
Jack in the Wood
The Antidote

We were going to do a dueling piano bar but we asked a waiter at a restaurant and they said it had a scummy reputation and was the only place doing a cover so we skipped. The girls of the group wanted to do a "fancy" night and we went to Bargello, complete waste of time and money. Food was mediocre/bad and extremely overpriced, the priciest meal of the trip.

>>16188898
early girl has been shit since new owners
tupelo is a meme chain lmao
wicked weed a shit

jack in the wood pretty good. i like the rabbit tacos they had years back

>>16188830
like how old

>>16184525
cry more, incel. you probably live with your parents in a mcmansion in cary or some other research triangle shithole.

>>16188954
50-55 at least

My friend I were just standing by our car filming some crap and she invites us into her gallery for a drink and then it got weird. Feelsy. And then her husband came out of back room.

The absolute BEST bar is Hugh Jazz’s Bar and Nightclub. It’s right around the corner from Mike Rotch’s. You can’t beat it. They have the softest hamburger buns. When you bite into them, the hamburger juice and ketchup just squirts right out from directly between the two buns into your mouth. Bring wet wipes, it’s explosive.

Hugh Jazz is a great restaurant/bar. Lots of live music.

>>16179161
absolutely this, I'm moving south of the city to Hendersonville

.t piedmont chad

>>16184743
>About an hour from your city of sodomites where the winter kills the hippy bums
>Really never want to travel past Mars Hill or into Buncombe
>Asheville's history is literally Jew Yorker industrialists buying into Appalachia health benefits when air quality was #1 medical advice whilst destroying locals.

>>16185601
>t. he never lived in PDX
>even PDXturboHipsters are less pretentious than Trasheville faggots leaving SoCal trash and SeattleSoybeans being only competition.

>>16189710
you have brain damage.

>>16189812
>Wants to go to Asheville
>Not brain damaged

Enjoy skag fag degenerates

>>16178936
First, get the hell out of that hipster, mask wearing, no job having, BLM shit-show. But if you can't, head over to Salsa's or Chestnut. Then leave.

>>16180905
>Chapel Hill
>suburb of Raleigh

>>16179932
Oh no you poor soul, did seeing a man do whatever the hell he wants upset you? You gonna cry? Pee a little? Maybe shit and cum?

>>16178936
luellas barbecue
that taco place near unca
that pizza place near the concert hall
t. lived in asheville for like 4 years

i went to the high and fugged a girl in the pooper at unca

shit was cash

the beer garden my guy

>>16179770
>inbred southerners think their appalashit hills are "mountains"

LOL


>t. Colorado chad

>>16192041
herd u was talking shit about Appalachia

them mountains are the oldest in the world m8 you better back that rockie mountain bullshit up before i bust your ass

>>16191991
based

Traffic sucked, rain sucked, i just dicked off in my hotel and i might grab a 6er of something on the way out. Good thing I had a reason to be here, Asheville was on my bucket list like 6 years ago, but idk if id ever come back. Why is a place called octopus garden not a sushi place or a titty bar?
T. Hayseed retard who cant into traffic and hills.

>>16192202
>Why is a place called octopus garden not a sushi place or a titty bar?

youll find out when youre older
t. friend got kicked out of the octopus garden for saying "bong"

>>16178936
Chai Pani downtown, Rocky's hot chicken anywhere else

>>16192084
the high was based, wish i knew how based it was thought when i was there,

>>16182651
went to curate twice while I was in Asheville, it was good.

>>16192065
Always funny to watch appalfags bring up "muh age" to make their rocky hills seem relevant. And I live in NC. Beautiful land, but it's no Cascades.

>>16191991
>at unca
lol
t. unc

>>16191168
great reaction meme fag.

>>16192065
Nah appalashit a shit

Rockies > Sierra > Cascades >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ozarks >>>> Appalashit

>>16194359
>Colorado
>Not East California

Fuck off square niggas.


>>16194292
>Maintains their reputation as an academic powerhouse
>Football team can't even read at 5th grade level.
UNC-CH is a joke

>>16178936
BISCUITHEAD
BISCUIT HEAD
BISCUITHEAD
BISCUIT HEAD
BISCUITHEAD
BISCUIT HEAD

>>16195984
is garbage. literally bad at making biscuits. hard, dry.

>>16195984
Overrated
>>16192418
I agree with this but Chai Pani is overpriced
>>16191258
Salsa's is good, Chestnut is ok at best
>>16183739
overall a good list minus biscuit head and rocky's isn't bbq
>>16183068
Pretty good but has gone downhill over the years
>>16188898
good list
>>16182651
+1 for rhubarb

>>16191355
Honestly it depends on where you draw the lines
I don't think chapel hill is close enough to call a suburb of Raleigh but you could make the argument
I think Cary, Morrisville, Wake Forest, and Knightdale are all suburbs of Raleigh but Durham, Chapel Hill, and Apex are all separate