Greetings from Carrboro, She asked for our order a good 40 seconds after we sat down. Maybe less. We’d been waiting in line for a good half hour outside the restaurant serenaded by the afternoon traffic and an ancient speaker tuned to some dreadful AM station. The waitress was older than me and straight out […]
Our 26th Anniversary Gift to You
Greetings from Carrboro, This month, Acme will turn 26. And if you’re counting in restaurant years, that’s a lot. But measuring the life of a restaurant with a calendar only tells a bit of the story. There are the many hundreds of employees. The million+ guests. The untold tons – tons! – of potatoes, of flour, of butter and […]
Bringing the Big Easy to Carrboro
Greetings from Carrboro, The Uber driver was concerned. The streets were tearing up her minivan and the people, well, the people were crazy. She’d only been in New Orleans for a month. This had to have been either October or November. And the minivan was recently outfitted with a plexiglass shield that isolated her from […]
Reserve & Relax: Valentine’s Made Easy
Greetings from Carrboro, There needs to be a hotline. Like the Butterball cooking gurus you can call on Thanksgiving Day to save the meal when you’re terrified that your all-important turkey may be doomed. Some kind soul to talk you off the holiday ledge. Because Valentine’s Day seriously needs guardrails to keep you from skidding […]
Hook, Line and Dinner.
Greetings from Carrboro, My grandmother loved to fish. In the summer, she’d assemble rods and bait after breakfast. Then we’d march across cow pastures and over barbed-wire fences to test our collective luck in some neighboring farm pond. But mostly she caught the fish – spot and bream, a rare catfish. The rest of us […]
New Year, New Resolutions.
Greetings from Carrboro, New Year’s resolutions can be a lot like those games at the state fair; failure is pretty much baked in the cake. Yes, I know, it is possible that you’ll learn Italian by the end of the year. Or that you’ll go through your phone and delete all the unwanted photos from the last […]
A Holiday Prime Rib Affair!
Greetings from Carrboro, What if it was HA HA HA? Can you imagine? Somehow Santa wouldn’t be, well, Santa. And god knows, having jolly St. Nick chortle HE HE HE would be so-so-so much worse. Because there’s no doubt that the man with the bag needs a certain trustworthy gravitas. He already dresses oddly, knows […]
Acme’s 12 Days of Christmas
Greetings from Carrboro, There’s got to be some merry app for the Advent Calendar. Some dose of digital optimism promising a carefree holiday with lots of playful elf emojis and to-do lists and jolly reminders to check it twice. As if December could be wrapped so neatly. As if the Christmas snowball that starts rolling […]
‘Tis the Season of Giving.
Greetings from Carrboro, It’s a lot. There is, of course, the tree extravaganza. And the never-ending shopping. Then there’s cookies to bake, parties to oh-so-merrily attend, rambunctious children to nightly sedate. Not to mention the rest of your life that rushes forward towards the new year unabated. I get the sense that Rex – the […]
Up Your Cocktail Game.
Greetings from Carrboro, He called it a gin and tonic. And I do believe that both of those things were in the glass. Along with some ice and a submerged lime wedge. But this was no hi-ball glass or tumbler. This thing he handed to me was more akin to a footed terrarium. And the […]
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