
{"id":3498,"date":"2008-09-25T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2008-09-25T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T15:49:43","slug":"the-eater-92508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/09\/25\/the-eater-92508\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eater 9\/25\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/westenda091108.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/westenda091108-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Ava Barlow. Jarrod Jones, a barista at West End Wine Bar, makes a cup of cappuccino. The West Franklin Street establishment recently added coffee to its menu offerings.\" title=\"westenda091108\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" size-medium wp-image-3499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/westenda091108-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/westenda091108.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on to us, Part II<\/strong><br \/>\nThe big food magazines might as well open a bureau down here. On the heels of last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s glowing declaration of this area as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Foodiest Small Town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes a lush, 14-page photo and recipe spread on Lantern in this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gourmet (motto: The Magazine of Good Living).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe photos are really swell, as is the nice profile of Andrea Reusing. The best part, though, is that you can now take a crack at home at making \u00e2\u20ac\u201d among other dishes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d salt and pepper shrimp, pork and chive dumplings, the Lantern dumpling sauce (!), kimchi pancakes and poached tangerine slices. Let us know what time to arrive for dinner and what we should bring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee up<\/strong><br \/>\nPositive reports are rolling in about the West End Wine Bar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s foray into the daytime coffeeshop scene. The place now opens at 7:30 a.m., and we hear the transition hours from daytime coffeeshop to nighttime wine bar are especially vibrant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minty fresh<\/strong><br \/>\nAn eater sent us a note this week about a trip to Mint, the new Indian place on West Franklin Street: I went to Mint on West Franklin Street with 11 friends on opening night, September 10th. It was nothing less than outstanding. The restaurant is exquisitely beautiful and the food was amazing. Mint has a weekday lunch buffet and weekend brunch buffet on Saturday and Sunday. Definitely worth going to.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nFrustration to go<\/strong><br \/>\nOK, look, The Eater knows you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re busy, but so are those of us who order food to go. In fact, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we get it to go. If we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to hurry back to the office and surf the web while we eat, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to enjoy a leisurely lunch and your wonderful ambience. Until then, please remember the plasticwear, the salad dressing, the side of veggies . . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>One eater\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s answer<\/strong><br \/>\nA couple weeks ago, The Eater pondered the deep thought of what to do with all the cherry tomatoes. This suggestion for some of them came in via email:<br \/>\n<em>Cut them all in half and set aside. Cook some rice and let it cool. Drain and rinse a can of black beans. Chop a small red onion.  Mix all these ingredients together in a bowl with some crumbled feta cheese, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, black pepper, salt and spices. Refrigerate overnight and take to your tailgate party this Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deep thought<\/strong><br \/>\nMicrowave energy is a surprisingly effective way to reheat those Milltown cheese curds.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nGot a deep thought, a simple question or a recent meal you want to tell us about? Email The Eater at eats@carrborocitizen.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}