Generally, I’m a wee suspicious of pithy sayings. As a veteran of the restaurant world, I have ample proof that the customer is not always right and that, in fact, a watched pot will boil. Every single time. So, when anyone rhetorically conjures the legendary epithet “luck of the Irish” I have similar doubts. Maybe it’s me, but history […]
St Patrick’s Day, Incoming!
Greetings from Carrboro, I have to admit that I was underwhelmed. To be honest, I was probably hoping for a bit too much. Because after reading in Mad Magazine that my Irish heritage pegged me as most likely to marry a relative without teeth, the big reveal of the family crest was ripe for disappointment. […]
Extending our Sunday Brunch Extravaganza
Clearly, there are two trains of thought. Either the calendar gods felt sorry for poor, short-changed February and gave it the extra quadrennial day or – my guess – they were decidedly misanthropic and felt that adding an April 31st or June 31st would just provide too much of a good thing to all of […]
Cheers to Margaritas!
Greetings from Carrboro, The general rule is one size fits most. Occasionally a restaurant will offer two different pour sizes for a glass of the same wine. Or a bar will offer what’s called a “short” beer. But by and large people don’t drink various sized cocktails. At least in a public setting. There have […]
Happy Birthday to Acme
Greetings from Carrboro, I’ve been known to rant. Thankfully, this is mostly when I’m alone in my car. If it shows up at work there’s usually someone to remind me that I should tuck the crazy part back in. And my daughters have a specific glare that wordlessly does the same thing. Drivers can be […]
Mardi Gras Has Arrived.
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 […]
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