Asheville – Oh, the Places We See . . .

Even Better Than I Remembered: Chattanooga’s Mayor’s Mansion Inn

Years ago, my husband and I dabbled in antiques, and I wrote a column for the Busy Bee Trader featuring shops, restaurants, B&Bs — just about anything that the Busy Bee readers would want to visit in their publication area. And that’s how I came upon a lovely Victorian Romanesque home-turned-inn at the cornerstone of the […]

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Asheville’s Black Walnut Inn — Elegant Relaxation

Asheville, North Carolina is blessed with gracious Southern accommodations — the Inn on Biltmore Estate, the Grove Park Inn, and, if moved side by side, enough Bed and Breakfasts to line a street worthy of Hollywood. But when we began searching in earnest for a unique, elegant place to stay for a weekend away, we turned to an […]

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Curate: Spanish Flair in Downtown Asheville

Tyler shows us Spanish ham at Curate Now that I’ve seen the website for Curate and read about this rave-about place for fine dining, I don’t know how I could have almost walked past without even knowing about this unique new restaurant. It was all quite accidental. My husband and I were meandering down Biltmore Avenue (Asheville, NC) in search of […]

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Asheville NC: Shopping’s Unique!

If you’ve followed my blog in the last week, you know that my husband and I traveled to Asheville, NC over the Memorial Day weekend specifically to check out Tupelo Honey Cafe, a restaurant coming to our town — Knoxville, TN! (Can’t say enough about their Southern fresh cuisine and lively, personal service!) After our bountiful brunch […]

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Tupelo’s a Honey!

We had seen the Tupelo Honey Cafe booth at both the Dogwood Arts Festival and the International Biscuit Festival. And we’d seen workmen gutting the old Soup Kitchen right around the corner from The Oliver Hotel in downtown Knoxville, getting ready for Tupelo to arrive. But we still didn’t know what all the hoopla was about. The pimento […]