Kimberly Houston | September 6, 2010
I recently worked a wine dinner at Temptations and wanted to share the behind the scenes fun.
I’ve said it before: if you love food and wine and want to learn more about the whole subculture of people and pleasures that field encompasses, and you want the opportunity to try lots of great food and wine [...]
Kimberly Houston | September 2, 2010
Oh hallelujah and finally, yes, I ate at Catch on Market Street, a pilgrimage I’ve been wanting to make for a loooong time. Oh boy, was it ever good.
If you live in Wilmington and eat out regularly, you’ve either been here already, heard about how awesome it is, and/or plan to go soon.
I went with [...]
Kimberly Houston | August 13, 2010
This is going to be B-I-G F-U-N. Temptations Everyday Gourmet, 3501 Oleander Drive, Wilmington, will present a five-course “forgotten grapes” wine dinner on Friday August 20th at 6:30 p.m.
Chris Kern, wine expert, culinary entrepreneur, and founder of ForgottenGrapes.com, will partner with one of Wilmington’s Top Chefs (as voted on by readers of the Star-News), Temptations [...]
Kimberly Houston | August 3, 2010
Kymberlei DiNapoli of Taste the Olive
If you love to cook, and you really prize using the finest ingredients – the very best and freshest olive oils and vinegars, for example – then you are going to want to visit Taste the Olive, pronto.
I went last week, and from one foodie to another I must tell [...]
Kimberly Houston | July 12, 2010
Le Catalan, Wilmington, NC
Because I am and have been a server off and on for a few years, when I get great service, it leaves an impression. (For example, I wrote about the great service my friends and I enjoyed at Circa 1922 back in January of this year from Bill. Bill was awesome.)
Recently some [...]
Kimberly Houston | June 25, 2010
Fried Mac & Cheese, seriously delicious (pic by Carolyn Morgan)
I cannot be-lieve my luck! I happened upon the best fried thing I ever ate last Saturday, at this adorable little restaurant downtown called The Eat Spot. And as an added bonus, I had a pretty damn good salad there too. But really, who cares about [...]
Kimberly Houston | May 10, 2010
A quick shout-out to my buddy and co-worker, Michael, who landed (again) among Wilmington’s Top Ten Chefs this year, this year making it into the Top Three . . . .Way to go, Michael!
He’s not only very, very good at what he does, he’s hands down the nicest chef I’ve ever worked with. No drama, no bad behavior, no weirdness, no treating [...]
Kimberly Houston | March 22, 2010
I’ve been hearing about this place for a couple of months now — as in, “the curries are amazing,” “you HAVE to go,” “it‘s so freakin’ good,” and, “it’s better than Indochine,” etc. So Saturday night I went, with my best eating out buddy, way on down to Monkey Junction. (For those of you not [...]
Kimberly Houston | March 14, 2010
Mmmm says it all. . . .
My heart aches, and a sugar-induced numbness pains my gums, as though of sweetest fructose I had drunk. . . .
(OK, that’s as far as I can go in bastardizing John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale.” The former English major in me winces with mortification.)
But this sure was one [...]
Kimberly Houston | March 4, 2010
Now here is a place I’d never heard of, let alone been to. I don’t venture too much out of the confines of Wilmington proper when it comes to having dinner out, and I declare today that I am getting out of that rut! You heard it here first.
What got me here was the monthly [...]
