Celebrating twenty years of success, Asheville Independent Restaurants (AIR) launched its popular tasting event, Taste of Asheville, on March 9. Waylaid by COVID since 2019, the group’s signature, social culinary event once again tickled attendees’ taste buds. Normally held at The Venue in November, it moved to Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College this year, home to
Still, others worry such a move would turn Asheville s downtown into Bourbon Street.
Mike Rangel, an owner of Asheville Pizza and Brewing and Rabbit Rabbit entertainment venue downtown, laughed as he recalled wandering Bourbon Street decades ago, jug of grocery store wine in hand. I see the attraction, but I also feel like, if not enforced, there s nothing to really stop someone from grabbing a six-pack from Hot Spot and just walking around hanging out, he said.
Rangel said the South Slope would be a likely place for a social district to spring up. The neighborhood, he said, doesn t really need the help.
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County s 30% restaurant capacity mandate absent key local data, damages industry Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen Times
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Buncombe County cut restaurant capacity to 30%, stricter than the state-mandated 50%, without community-based data proving local restaurants role in the spread of COVID, the county told the Citizen Times. In terms of specific local numbers, the county health staff have never been able to provide breakouts by percentage of how COVID is understood to be spread through various sectors so to speak, Buncombe County Board of Commissioners chairman Brownie Newman told the Citizen Times on Jan. 21. For example, what percentage of COVID transmission has been spread during church services, school attendance, indoor dining, other work spaces, other social gatherings, etc.