| November 17, 2011
Asheville Independent Restaurants (AIR) will celebrate a big evening of what makes Asheville a culinary destination at The Venue at 21 North Market Street in downtown Asheville with "Taste of Asheville." This highly anticipated annual fundraising event features food from 37 restaurants as well as wine tasting and beer tasting from local breweries. These same restaurants are participating in the 2012 AIR Passport, which will be kicked off that same evening and offers discounts at many of Asheville’s top restaurants.
This year’s Asheville restaurants who are participating in the Taste of Asheville and The AIR Passport are: Avenue M, Blue Ridge Dining Room, Blue Water Seafood, Boca, Bouchon, Chai Pani, Chef Mo, Chelseas Tea Room, City Bakery, Corner Kitchen, Creperie Bouchon, Curate Tapas Bar, Dining Innovations, Fiore’s, Frankie Bones, The French Broad Chocolate Lounge, The Green Sage, Homegrown, Horizons, Jack of Hearts, Jack of the Wood, Laughing Seed, Lexington Avenue Brewery, The Lobster Trap, Luella’s Bar-B-Que, Mamacitas, The Market Place, Mela Indian Restaurant, Neo Cantina, Olive or Twist, Pack’s Tavern, Pomodoros, Sunset Terrace, Tupelo Honey, Ultimate Ice Cream, Vincenzo’s and Vinnies Neighborhood Italian.
A portion of the proceeds from the evening and the sale of the Passports will go to benefit AIR’s “Chefs of Tomorrow” scholarship at AB Tech. Tickets for the event are $70 for a single ticket and $125 for a pair. Tickets will go on sale October 3rd on the AIR Website www.airasheville.org.
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