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Sam Diminich Partners with HopeWay on Culinary Mental Health Programming
At first glance, a collaborative project between renowned chef Sam Diminich and HopeWay, a nonprofit mental health treatment center in southwest Charlotte, might seem like an unlikely pairing. For those involved, however, it’s a wonder the partnership didn’t come sooner. From their perspective, a mental health treatment center teaming up…
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Is Charlotte’s Uptown Food Scene on the Verge of a Resurgence?
I got two parking tickets in Uptown last week and I’m not even mad about it. In fact, I’m quite jazzed that something spicy is finally happening in Uptown Charlotte. To be clear, the ticket fiasco only happened because actual spicy things brought me to the area in the first…
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Optimist Hall’s Loyal Tenants Help Ring in Five Years
Optimist Hall — Charlotte’s first food hall situated in a revamped 1892 cotton textile mill — celebrated its five-year anniversary in August. In Charlotte time, that’s kind of a big deal. Hyped as Charlotte’s first modern-day food hall when it opened in 2019, it’s clear that management is doing something…
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