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Greetings from Carrboro, Yesterday, a friend sent me a photo that his wife took. It’s of him working from home; he’s smiling from inside a rather formidable blanket fort that had much more of a Hobbit feel than, say, Camelot. You know, homey. There was a Coke Zero next to his computer. He had one […]

March 23rd, 2020 Greetings from Carrboro, So, here we are; one week into this new, um, adventure. I think I may be getting a taste of what the crew members felt aboard the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria once they lost sight of land. I’m sure that they clearly recognized that their boats were really, really small […]

Greetings from Carrboro, It’s official. Acme has become Acme To-Go. For now. Dinner orders can be placed at any time of day through our website and then picked up between 4:45 and 8pm. It’s simple and it’s delicious. Everyday we will be offering our Acme Classics and specials including our Family Meal dinner for 4. To […]

March 17th, 2020 Greetings from Carrboro, Over the past weekend, all of us at the restaurant were overwhelmed by the generosity and strength of this vibrant community. The kind words, the spirited elbow bumps, the pizza (thanks, Gabe!) – all those moments of such sincere and heartfelt support. Acme is very lucky to be a […]

Greetings from Carrboro, A friend of mine has a favorite saying: for every complex problem, there is a simple answer — and that answer is wrong. And as our team at Acme tries to tackle how our business responds to the covid-19 epidemic, I couldn’t agree more. The unprecedented nature of the crisis doesn’t allow us […]

Greetings from Carrboro, It’s a bit like MC Hammer. Food-wise. Though I’d be the first to admit that assigning any dish the culinary equivalent of “You Can’t Touch This” probably doesn’t elicit rampant salivating. But stick with me here. Just, you know, try not to picture Hammer in those MTV, I-guess-you-call-them pants. Nobody wants to go […]

Greetings from Carrboro, We all know this; airport food sucks. But you’re stranded. And bored. And you think, hell, ramen in Cincinnati might be pretty damn good; look at that photo! Thirty-seven dollars later you stare at the color beige come to life. With noodles. And maybe chicken? And, joy of joys, it’s the same […]

Greetings from Carrboro, Acme was always a high-wire act. I just didn’t know it – at first. The robust naivete and willfulness that got me to that point in my life provided the initial confidence to wander those first fateful strides out into the spotlight. After that, well, I didn’t know how to turn around […]

Greetings from Carrboro, I rationalize. All the time. Often with a heavy varnish of moral vanity. I buy bottled juices at the grocery store that cost seven dollars but do not taste delicious – at all – and look decidedly worse. Similarly, I’ll choose bags of various exotic root vegetable and/or corn chips that are made […]

Greetings from Carrboro, It’s a little creepy. They’re always just so chipper, so California. Part of me thinks that they should sound like some old school sci-fi robot or, you know, C3PO. Or even better – Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator. But when a Google Assistant calls the restaurant to make a reservation, the voice actually sounds like an overeducated […]