Food Features
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Lorem Ipsum Listening Bar Hits Its Stride on Central
Most designers and journalists will recognize the term “lorem ipsum” as dummy text, placed in a space to act as a placeholder while having no specific meaning. For Justin Hazelton, however, it means everything. Opened by Hazelton in November 2023, Lorem Ipsum Listening Bar provides a third space just outside…
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How ICE Aggression Has Impacted the Restaurant Industry in East Charlotte
With residents speaking more than 50 languages among them, the Central Avenue/Albemarle Road Corridor is considered the most diverse of Charlotte’s six Corridors of Opportunity. Thanks to Central Avenue’s diverse makeup, and especially its burgeoning Latino population, the area has become a hotspot for folks in search of ethnic food…
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Carolina Farm Trust Marks 10 Years Confronting Food Insecurity
Looking back now, Zack Wyatt recognizes that he didn’t fully appreciate what it meant to grow up on a 300-acre farm. To him, living on a dairy farm in Northern Virginia was just work: mowing 6 acres every week and taking care of countless animals … all to be sent…
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CORE K9 Repurposes Ingredients to Cook for Pets
Sometimes loss can inspire the creation of something beautiful. Felicia Cordray and her husband Manuel founded CORE K9 in November 2023, inspired by the loss of their 11-year-old Cane Corso, Dutchess, who had been diagnosed late with lung cancer. Though the Cordrays had kept up with Dutchess’ health, the tumor…
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Drinkless Spring Fest Shows Growth of New Sober Sisters Events Org
Recovery from addiction looks different for everyone, but one thing most people can agree on is that it’s not easy to do alone. It takes a village, as the cliche goes, but it’s up to each individual person to seek that village out. For some people, 12-step programs are an…
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Colleen Hughes Cements Her Spot as One of Charlotte’s Top Mixologists
For a split second after walking into Leluia Hall in Dilworth on a recent Thursday I got the briefest glimpse of what it might be like to work for Colleen Hughes, one of Charlotte’s most renowned mixologists and beverage director for the distinguished Tonidandel-Brown Restaurant Group. When I arrived, Hughes…
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Distro Beer Hub Applies the Food Hall Model to Craft Beer
Considering Charlotte’s insatiable need for the shiny and new, keeping a brewery alive for 15 years is nothing short of a miracle. After seeing countless breweries open and close over the years, Heist Brewery founder Kurt Hogan has learned what works and what doesn’t. “Breweries are still very popular, but…
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Chef Carmen Vasquez Traces Her 25-Year Journey with FS Food Group
At the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2025 Women in Business Awards ceremony in Uptown on March 20, each of the 26 honorees — recognized as outstanding women who are creating an impact in the Charlotte region — was asked to speak for 30 seconds about what advice they would give to…
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Chef Maria Kemp Puts Culinary Spin on Diversity Trainings
On Feb. 21, Republicans in the NC House of Representatives filed House Bill 171, a bill that prohibits state agencies from promoting, supporting, implementing or maintaining workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, policies or initiatives. The introduction of the bill came as little surprise to those who have seen…
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Six New(ish) Coffee Shops Perfect for Remote Workers
Ever since COVID-19 hit in 2020, going to work can mean many different things. In a world where remote work has become the norm, it’s important to find a space where you can lock in. Coffee shops have also come a long way in serving professionals, offering perks that cater…
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KT Winery Goes Worldwide with American Airlines Announcement
If you’ve ever woken up with a wine hangover, you know just how cruel the vino can be on the morning after. There are a number of reasons wine hangovers have earned this reputation — congeners like tannins, histamine and sulfites are prime suspects. Then there’s that staple of the…
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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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Leluia Hall Proves Tonidandel-Brown’s Penchant for Preservation
Walking through the 110-year-old Dilworth church that will soon be home to Leluia Hall early one January morning, I got the sense that Jamie Brown could see things that I couldn’t. Where I saw ladders, buckets, tool boxes, bags of quick-set compound, bottles of caulk, extension cords and a slew…
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The Halal Food Cart Team Builds Outward from Trade & Tryon
Halal Food Cart is an undeniable staple of Charlotte — the self-explanatory business title plastered on all four sides of the cart that has stood strong at the crossroads of the Queen City, the intersection of Trade and Tryon streets in the center of Uptown, for more than eight years.…
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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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Orosoko Sound Bar Provides a New Concept in South End
Located along Bland Street amidst the many food and drink destinations that make South End so popular sits a new arrival that hopes to set itself apart from its nightlife neighbors by word of mouth … or perhaps word of ear. Orosoko bills itself as a “sound bar,” and if…
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