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Following is a list of restaurants, bakeries, cafes, and pubs in the Asheville area. Follow links for more information about specific establishments.

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The Laughing Seed Cafe
A completly vegetarian restaurant specializing in foods from around the world. The dishes prepared here celebrate fresh vegetables combined with all natural and predominantly organic ingredients. 828-252-3445
Season's At Highland Lake Inn
Experience fine dining in a casual country setting at Season's at Highland Lake Inn. Fresh in-season organic vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers from our "garden to the plate" cuisine are grown on property. Recommended by Southern Living, Organic Style Magazine, & Asheville Citizen Times.
180 N. Highland Lake Road, Flat Rock, North Carolina,
828-696-9094
Province 620
Voted best of 2003. Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Open at 11 A. M. on Sunday for brunch. Province 620 is a unique, upscale casual dining restaurant offering more than 100 menu selections including Appetizers, Pasta, Seafood, Steaks, Salads, Sandwiches, and more. Our menu also features specialty dishes like our Cranberry Mandarin Orange Chicken , Ginger Sesame Seed Enrusted Salmon, and Mediterranean Shrimp Pasta to name just a few choices, Full bar and great wine list, Daily Spacials. 620 Hendersonville Road in South Asheville 828-277-0355
Gabrielle's at Richmond Hill
Exquisite cuisine and Victorian elegance. Inside the 1889 mansion of Richmond Hill Inn -- AAA Four Diamond Award. Recipient of the prestigious AAA Four Diamond Award for the 14th consecutive year, this Asheville restaurant presents an extraordinary dining experience inside the historic Mansion. The Mansion's original parlor and dining room, with its rich cherry paneling and three-tiered chandelier, has the stately Victorian ambience of the 1890s.
828-252-7313
Carmel's Restaurant and Bar
Carmel's is already known as a destination in downtown Asheville with its Alfresco Dining, Romantic and Intimate Dining Room and Jazzy-chic Bar. Located in the Historic Grove Arcade, the exterior boosts some of the best outdoor seating — the perfect place to sit and watch Asheville go by while enjoying cocktails and some fantastic food. Executive Chef Carole Bowers invites you to Carmel's to enjoy what the Mountain Xpress called "Carmel's drop-dead gorgeous menu…" For menu details and reservations, please see our web site. (828) 252-8730
Greenlife Deli
Greenlife is a full service natural foods store dedicated to bringing you and your family the freshest and healthiest foods and products available. No artificial flavors, colors, preservatives. The upscale supermarket features an expansive deli serving foods prepared by a half dozen highly skilled chefs.
Frankie Bones Restuarant & Lounge
A walk through the door into The Fabulous Frankie Bones Restaurant & Lounge takes you back to the carefree style of the early 1960's and its restaurants in the big cities across America. At Frankie Bones, snappy sounds, high back burgundy leather booths, an award-winning menu and first class service are the recipe for an experience to remember. Frankie Bones offers lunch and dinner seven days a week and Sunday Brunch on the weekends.
2 Gerber Road, Suite 101, Asheville, NC 28803
828.274.7111
Malaprop's Bookstore/Café
Find out why there's always so many people sitting in the cafe, and find out why Peter Jennings calls it "the best little bookshop in the Southeast." 828-254-6734.
Corner Stone Restaurant
Serving Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Open seven days a week. 6:30 AM - 10:00 PM. Homemade Soups, Salads, USDA Steaks, the fines Seafood delivered and prepared daily, Pasta, Charbroiled Burgers and Fresh Daily Specials. 102 Tunnel Road. 828-236-0201
Café on the Square
Fresh takes and familiar favorites spark the Café’s new direction. Café on the Square offers American cuisine with an emphasis on supporting the local agricultural community. Check out what’s doing at Pack Square through the large picture windows as you relax at the full-service bar or the cozy banquette. If you prefer, the friendly, professional wait staff will direct you to the Café’s adjacent patio to make the most of Asheville’s beautiful weather. Be a star—join Robert Redford, Sandra Bullock and Ben Affleck when you tell your friends about the Café on the Square. 828-251-5565
Moose Cafe
The Moose Café is an award-winning country restaurant on the grounds of the WNC Farmer’s market. They were in Southern Living Magazine and have received numerous other awards for their commitment to quality. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week featuring all of your southern favorites! Western North Carolina Farmer's Market, 570 Brevard Road, Asheville, NC
828-255-0920
The Bier Garden
Located at 46 Haywood Street, inside the Haywood Park hotel atrium, The Bier Garden has been an Asheville favorite since 1994. We offer a selection of over 200 beers from around the world as well as your local micro brewed favorites. To complement the largest selection of beer in WNC is a extensive food menu, including fine dining entrees, a pub menu, late night menu , children's menu , wine menu and a full bar. Sunday brunch served 11:00 am -2 pm. 2 game rooms, 11 TV's and a 15 foot TV to catch the big game! Open daily 11:00 am - 2:00 am. 828-285-0002
Chop House
Located in historic downtown Asheville at the newly opened Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, the Chop House features Asheville’s only signature steakhouse. This gourmet steakhouse is upscale and at the same time, comfortable and relaxed, serving high quality steaks with a wide selection of preparation methods for steaks and chops and accompaniments to go with each. Seafood, pasta entrees and a wide array of appetizers and salads are also available. This restaurant is the only one of it’s kind & features a cozy bar serving wine by the glass. Reservations are suggested for dinner.
Call 253-1852 and ask for Chop House reservations.
Savoy Cucina Italiana
The Savoy offers a brand new way of presenting International Cuisine. With the perfect balance between rich elegance and friendly comfort menu selections include free range meats and a variety of fresh seafood that is flow in six days a week from around the world and is never frozen. Everything is made from scratch with only the freshest ingredients including all breads and desserts made on premise. Sante Magazine Award Winner for “Most Innovative Cuisine, Best Martini Bar and Service Excellence in the Southeast,” and Voted Best Wine list in Asheville 2006 with Six Wine Spectator Awards of Excellence. “Savoy is a favorite with locals who love great food” Southern Living Magazine and considered Asheville's Best Restaurant by the New York Times. 828•253•1077
Barley's Taproom
A renovated 1920s appliance store is home to Barley's Taproom in Asheville, North Carolina. This is the original Barley's that opened in 1994. Located at 42 Biltmore Avenue, the 8,000 square foot space is in the heart of the arts and entertainment district. The main floor houses the restaurant and stage. 828-255-0504
Burgermeister's Kitchen & Tap
Located at 697 Haywood Rd in West Asheville. This chef-owned joint serves gourmet beef burgers, eclectic sandwiches, seafood, daily specials and offers a full bar. With a casual and fun atmosphere, you can come as you are. Open Lunch & Dinner 11:30 am-11pm Monday-Thursday, 11:30am-1am Friday & Saturday. Closed Sundays. Non-smoking environment until 9pm. 828-225-2920
Vincenzo's Ristorante & Bistro
Vincenzo's offers an award winning menu, the best Italian wine list in Asheville, beautifully crafted desserts and a great selection of fine coffees. This romantic restaurant is completely smoke-free. Downstairs, The Bistro offers a wonderful line-up of live, talented musicians providing Jazz, Blues and Standards every night, seven days a week. Please call 828-254-4698 or visit www.vincenzos.com.
Zambra
Zambra, Asheville’s home for Spanish wine and tapas, has been glowingly reviewed in Southern Living, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Charlotte Observer; and featured on the Food Network. We feature the finest Iberian wines, and our dining room is widely recognized as the area's most beautiful. 828-232-1060.
Cakes by Jane
Cakes by Jane, founded in 1997, bakes and ships 9 flavors of Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cakes all over the world. Cakes by Jane has been featured or recommended by the National Food TV Network, Bon Appetit Magazine, Southern Living Magazine and The Turner South Network's Blue Ribbon Show. (828) 285-9292
Westville Pub
West Asheville at 777 Haywood Road, smoke-free neighborhood pub and restaurant, featuring microbrews, imports, and domestics on tap and bottled, with a full bar. Freshly made menu items include award winning wings, grill favorites, and light to hearty meals for carnivores and vegetarians. Live music 5 nights a week. Hours 12 noon - 2 am daily.. Kitchen open 12 noon - 11 pm daily, till 1am Friday and Saturday. 828-225-9782
Arbor Grill
Savor al fresco dining beside the winery on the Biltmore Estate. Delicious food, wine, and the natural beauty of Biltmore come together at the Arbor Grill to give you the ultimate Biltmore experience. Live musicians entertain Friday through Sunday. Enjoy a glass of Biltmore wine or Biltmore's own Vanderbilt Pale Ale. Dine on savory appetizers, gourmet sandwiches, and entrees created with locally grown ingredients. Estate admission is required. Lunch and dinner served.
Urban Burrito
Urban burrito is a true taste-of-Asheville with two great locations. The Urban Burrito features gourmet burritos, quesadillas, salads, tacos, nachos, and much more all for less than $6.99 per item. All food is made fresh daily and served with an efficiency found nowhere else. The Urban Burrito is a casual dining experience with fun decor and the best energy in town. The Urban Burrito has eating options for all age ranges including children. Don't miss this experience! 828-251-1921 & 828-277-2002
Earth Fare Cafe
The Earth Fare Cafe is where to go to enjoy a delicious, all natural meal. Many choices include a salad and hot bar, cold deli salads, sandwiches, fresh baked breads and desserts. Earth Fare's famous salad bar and hot buffet features the healthy ingredients found around the store. The cafe also features a juice bar where you can enjoy fresh juices, smoothies, herbal teas and shade grown coffee. 828-253-7656
The Dining Room - Inn on Biltmore
Elegant. Romantic. Refined. With deliciously creative interpretations of regional cuisine. Estate-raised beef and lamb. Mountain trout. Fresh-picked ingredients from our kitchen gardens. The wines of Biltmore. White tablecloths. Fine china bearing the Vanderbilt "V." Beautiful views. Gracious service. The little luxuries and attention to detail that have always characterized Vanderbilt entertaining. An evening in The Dining Room at the Inn on Biltmore is an evening to remember.
The Lobster Trap
Asheville's own fresh seafood restaurant and oyster bar. Come enjoy our fun, open, casual atmosphere, fresh food, extensive wine list, full bar, and friendly staff. Located at 35 Patton Avenue. 828-350-0505.
The Charlotte Street Grill and Pub
"Come experience dining in our Victorian style restaurant upstairs or enjoy our festive and intimate "European House" atmosphere in the pub downstairs." 828-253-5348
Zen Sushi
Authentic Japanese cuisine, great specials and lunch combinations, and features full dinner menu. Open daily seven days a week. Sunday through Thursday 11:30AM-10:00PM, and Friday and Saturday 11:30AM-10:30PM. Dine in or take out. 640 Merrimon Ave., second floor, suite #205, Asheville, NC.
(828) 225-6033, Fax (828) 225-6031
Limones
Around the corner from the Fine Arts Theatre in downtown Asheville, Limones Restaurant provides an inspirational mix of Mexican-Californian cuisine along with inventive bar selections served by a warm, professional staff. Chef-owner Hugo Ramirez frequently changes the menu, featuring what is seasonal, fresh and local. Dinner specialies include such entrees as grilled au natural rib-eye steak with hazelnut-ancho chile sauce, or Tequila-lime cured salmon with watercress and avocado salad. Limones also features an impressive Saturday & Sunday brunch with traditional selections such as Mexican sweetbreads and house-made sausage, including chorizo. Lunch Friday & Saturday 11:30-3:00. Sunday Brunch 11-3:00. 828-252-2327
Deerpark Restaurant
This charming, rustic restaurant was originally an historic barn designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Now transformed into a courtyard restaurant with walls of windows, Deerpark Restaurant on Biltmore Estate serves a generous array of Southern family-style dishes and Appalachian specialties. Our mouthwatering Sunday brunches offer bountiful choices. It's an excellent setting for family dining, with children nine and younger dining with you for free. Estate admission is required.
The Grove Park Inn Resort' Horizons Restaurant
Only the grandeur of the Inn itself can compare to this award-winning and elegant restaurant. Asheville's premier, formal dining experience can be found at Horizons. White linen service, fine china, and a wine selection beyond compare set the mood, while expertly prepared dishes by professional chefs will leave your palate pleasantly satisfied. Horizons features innovative, classic cuisine that has been recognized by numerous awards including DiRoNA's Fine Dining Award, Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence, and AAA's Four Diamond Award.
Toll Free 800-438-5800, 290 Macon Ave.,Asheville, NC 28804
Lomo Grill
Since 1995, Lomo Grill has won critical praise and a passionate following. Owned and managed by Suzanne and Chef Ricardo Fernandez, Lomo blends the charm of a family bistro and the contemporary flair of an award-winning restaurant. Featuring natural beef, seafood, pasta, locally grown fruits and vegetables, bakery and wine cellar. 828-452-5222
Usual Suspects
North Asheville Neighborhood Bar & Restaurant. Independent and locally owned. Patio and large dining area. Relaxed atmosphere. Dynamic global menu and daily specials. Boutique wine list and temperature controlled cellar. Full liquor bar. Extensive bottled beer selection and 14 on tap. Emphasis on evolving food and beverage options. 791 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville, NC 828-350-8181
Tupelo Honey Café
Critics from Southern Living to The New York Times are salivating over this new twist on Southern cuisine. Dine inside the charming restaurant or amid the vibrant street life on the sidewalk while enjoying the distinctive beer and wine list. Breakfast entrees always available and dining until 11 p..m. on weekends. Located downtown at 12 College St. 828-255-4863
Laurey's Catering and Gourmet to Go
Come to Laurey’s for Lunch! Sit in our sunny café and enjoy “Gourmet Comfort Food.” Made-right here using locally grown ingredients as much as possible. Enjoy muffins and coffee, wonderful salads, soups and sandwiches. Take home dinner to go. And give us a call for interesting and delicious catering of all kinds. Don’t Postpone Joy! ® 828-252-1500
Inn on Church, The "Dining Room"
The "Dining Room" at the Inn on Church is open to the public for Lunch Monday- Saturday 11.30-2.00 and for Dinner Tuesday - Saturday 5.00-until, We offer all organic produce from our local growers, Fresh Seafood daily, and an array of delicious Entrees. Our Porch Dining is a must! Located at 201 Third Avenue West in downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina,
Toll Free 800-330-3836, or 828-693-3258


































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