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In a list of Top 10 Best Green Restaurants in the country, Asheville’s very own Tupelo Honey Cafe rounded out the list. The combination of food with flair and using Farm to Table local ingredients made Tupelo Honey Cafe a favorite with the Treehugger.com crowd.
Tupelo Honey Cafein downtown Asheville, North Carolina, offers a fresh take on Southern cuisine. The restaurant also sells a cookbook that benefits Manna FoodBank and the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.
“Wonderful service, too,” adds readers Stephanie Sanders-Cunningham.
Tupelo Honey Cafe has two locations, the downtown location on Prichard Park at 12 College Street offers great people watching. The new location at 1829 Hendersonville Road is a newly built location designed with the same charm- decorated with screen doors and hanging windows.
The food is delicious and creative, a wonderful place to bring out of town guests. I recently had my best friend in from the Outer Banks. I knew I had to take her somewhere great, because she and her husband own the Kill Devil Grill in the Outer Banks. Her husband is the fabulous chef who is constantly on the look out for new variations on Southern favorites. Their food is over the top scrumptious and well priced.
Problems? There were plenty. First- What to order? She finally narrowed it down to 5 dishes, filling her side of the table and mind with dishes, like a Chinese restaurant where you share meals. She moved from bites of the heavenly biscuits with blueberry jam to salad to cornbread to chicken to grilled cheese sandwich, delighted with each dish. The second problem was what to finish and what to bring home. We had plenty of left-overs for the rest of the week.
I’ve tried both locations, each quite a few times, and my favorite is the downtown location. When a friend told me he had tried the new location and didn’t think the food tasted the same, I didn’t believe him. But after numerous comparisons, I have to say it’s true. The food is just a little bit better at the College Street location. Maybe, as my friend theorized, it’s the age of the grill. But what the new location has is more tables and the friendliest staff in all of Asheville. Try both and see what you think.
