YES! Weekly

I am writing weekly articles in YES! Weekly newspaper, providing personal recommendations for takeout orders from local restaurants. These are published every Wednesday. You can pick up copies (free) in the lobby of most groceries and lots of other locations, including street corner stands around town. If you can't find a hard copy, access the newspaper online at https://issuu.com/yesweekly.

Recommended Takeout (updated April 21)

During this difficult time, we all need to support as many of our local restaurants as we can. Here is a list of recommended places that are providing takeout services while regular operations are suspended.  I have called or looked at websites for all these places to determine current status, but please call ahead. Things are changing fast. These are all places where I have either dined often or ordered takeout with consistenly reliable results- personal endorsements, not a list of everybody that is open. If you have a recommendation or an update, please send me a note. I have updated this list several times since first posting it on Friday (3/20).

Please pick up a copy of YES! Weekly newspaper every Wednesday. Starting this week (April 1), I will be providing a more detailed guide in print.

Augustino Gusto Bakery (facebook.com/augustinogustoeuropeanbakery)

Blue Water Grille (www.bluewatergrillenc.com)

Café Pasta and Grille (cafepasta.com)

Delicious Bakery (delicious-cakes.com)

Dolce & Amaro (dolceamaroartisanbakery.com)

@Elm Street Grill (elmstgrill.com)

Embur Fire Fusion (emburfirefusion.com)

GIA (drinkeatlisten.com)

Imperial Koi (imperialkoigso.com)

Kao (KAOGREENSBORO.COM)

LeBlon Brazililan Steakhouse (leblonsteakhouse.com)

Liberty Oak (libertyoakrestaurant.com)

Marisol (themarisol.com)

Melt (meltkitchenandbar.com)

MJ’s (mjs620.com)

Osteria (osteriagso.com)

The Painted Plate (paintedplate.com)

Pastabilities (pastabilitiesgreensboro.com)

Reel Seafood Grill (reelseafoodgrill.com)

Reto's (retoskitchen.com)

Rioja (riojawinebar.com)

Salvino (salvinorestaurant.com)

1618 Seafood Grille (1618seafoodgrille.com)

1618 Downtown (1618downtown.com)

1618 Midtown (1618midtown.com)

Smith Farms (facebook.com/SmithFarmsGibsonville) fresh produce

Southern Roots (southernrootsfoods.com) in Jamestown

The Shrimp Connection (theshrimpconnection.com) fresh seafood

Sugar Hill (sugarhillproduce.com) fresh produce

Sunset Market Gardens (sunsetmarketgardens.com) fresh produce

Zeto (zetowines.com)

Takeout Safety

An article in the Greensboro News and Record (March 25) states that takeout or delivery from restaurants is safe. See https://foodsafety.ces.ncsu.edu/ for more details. Please support your local restaurants!

Imperial Koi

Imperial Koi (1941 New Garden Road, Greensboro,  27410, 336-286-3000, imperialkoigso.com) is my favorite Asian restaurant.

In addition to the high quality and creativity of the food, this restaurant is all the more attractive due to the view- one of a handful of places in the Triad that actually has a view! A few photos from the most recent meal:

Steamed Edamame- healthy and tasty, too

Rocky Shrimp- tempura coated and fried- note the color in the pressentation

Dragon's Nest- on the menu as a starter, but I often get it as my entree.

Tuna, blended with sesame oil, is inserted into an avocado set over mixed greens, sprinkled with masago and sesame seeds, spread with spicy mayonnaise and ponzu sauce.

Tempura Vegetables- broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, sweet potato, and mushrooms.

Shrimp and Avocado  Sushi

What happens when a sushi chef gets hold of a lemon slice- a rabbit emerges!

Dolce & Amaro

See the February 5-11 issue of Yes! Weekly (https://issuu.com/yesweekly/docs/yes__weekly_-_february_5__2020) for the full text of my article about Dolce & Amaro Italian bakery (1310 Westover Terrace, Greensboro, 336-763-4349, dolceamaroartisanbakery.com). I am providing additional photos in this post.

Cannoli, filled with chocolate on one end, pistachios on the other, in sweetened ricotta cheese.

(Photo provided by Dolce & Amaro.)

Chocolate Eclair

Millefoglie- layers of folded pastry spread with Chantilly cream, chocolate and hazelnut mousse.

Zeppole di san Giuseppe 

(Photo provided by Dolce & Amaro.)

Apricot Tart

Fruit Tart

Coconut Tart

(Photo provided by Dolce & Amaro.)

Nuts Pastry Cream Tart

Tiramisu

Cheese Cake Tiramisu

Dolce and Amaro Cake

Chocolate Pistachio Raspberry Cake

(The alligator is made from chocolate)

Hazelnut Pistachio Cake

Ruddy Duck Tavern in Morehead City

Ruddy Duck Tavern on the Morehead City waterfront is one of my favorite places, for food as well as ambience. Portions are generous. My wife and I like to start with fried Amberjack bites, accented with Creole mustard sauce. A combination fried seafood platter- Scallops and Shrimp- is large enough to share.  We get an extra order of cole slaw.

Fried Amberjack Bites

Fried Scallops and Shrimp, with French fries

Cole Slaw

Magnolia Blue in High Point

Full review appeared in Yes! Weekly last spring. Great food, Southern influenced. Happy after recent return visit!

Their website: https://www.magnoliabluehighpoint.com/

Blackened Mahi

Chicken and Dumplings with andouille sausage

Shrimp and Crab Pasta

Christmas Gifts (for others and for yourself)

Back in the good old days, when I was writing a weekly column for The News and Record, I always posted a recommended gifts column about this time every year. Since I don't have that venue anymore, I'll provide a general recommendation here: my favorite place for food and cooking related purchases is The Extra Ingredient in Friendly Shopping Center. If they don't have it, you don't need it! Also, take a look at Chad Smith's website, GuilfordHillSpice.com. He blends salt-free spices, which are sold at The Extra Ingredient as well as online, and he is an excellent waiter at Salvino, one of my favorite area restaurants. Consider a gift certficate from a local restaurant as a gift!

Pimiento Cheese

Local product, highly recommended: Howling Good Pimiento Cheese, from Wolf Daddy Foods (wolfdaddyfoods.com). This comes from Amanda and Richard Lucas, who formerly owned a restaurant that I really liked. Go online, or pick up in person from Amanda at the Greensboro Farmers' Market on Yanceyville Street, Saturday mornings.

Christmas Season at Butcher and Bull in Winston-Salem

I wrote about a meal at Butcher and Bull (in downtown Marriott) in June (see "Older Posts" below). Starting today (December 3) through the end of the year, the restaurant is displayng Christmas decor developed in collaboration with Miracle pop-up bar. In addition, the bar and kitchen are introducing a new menu of Holiday cocktails and small-plate entrees.  (Photos below provided by restaurant.)

Here's the Snowball Old Fashioned drink on display.

This is Jingle Balls Nog.

And here's the Christmapolitan cocktail

Holiday food items include festive small plates such as crisp Elf Ornaments of fried macaroni and cheese balls topped with tomato jam, Reindeer Food charcuterie plate, Christmas in Hawaii wagyu beef sliders, and North Pole Steakhouse bistro steak and fries.