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Now for some local flavor.

loafing at Loaf

The cold blustery day this winter was great to find the new bakery in downtown Durham.  Welcome winter, have some chocolate croissants and cheddar and garlic bread.  A small storefront on 111 W. Parrish Street, Durham, NC 27701.  They even have some sandwiches I might try for lunch during the week.

Try it, you'll like it. Loaf.

PIZZA truck heaven in Durham part II

Another blissful lunch eating from a Durham Food truck.  I ordered two slices - one cheese and one margarita.  Both delicious.  The crust is thin with a nice crunchy bottom.  The cheese is good mozzarella, the kind that leaves it a bit greasy on top.  Nice size slices for 3 to 3.50. No line for me but maybe I am just special.  Check them out on their twitter. 


Food:  If you like thin crust pizza, you will love it.  I like all pizza.  The pizza is warmed up in what looked to me like a full sized at least double decker pizza oven.  Nice and hot with out burning the tip of your mouth.


Service:  No line for me.  It only took a few minutes to warm up.  I find most food truck venders to be very nice and friendly and this was no exception.  Service on a paper plate with napkins.  But bonus points for the recycle bin outside the truck (see above picture).


Atmosphere:  Despite the tornado watch it was not raining when I walked up to the truck at the green wall space at Main  St.  Good idea to walk to lunch. 

Marry Durham - Best Marriage Ever

So far so good on my marriage to Durham.  Check out the choppy love story.  They even had fake protesters!  Awesome.

Marry Durham - March 19th

where is my favorite veil?

Food trucks will be everywhere, yeah!

http://marrydurham.com/

Sausage Truck HEAVEN in Durham

Ok, that was an awesome lunch.  I walked to CCB Plaza to the Farmhand Food Sausage truck (windy mid 50's).  I ordered a polish sausage with pimento cheese.  The bun, lovely crispy, with two sausages inside with the pimento cheese generously around them, slightly melted. We sat outside in the sun for some Vitamin D.  My buddy ordered the veggie sandwich of chutney and I think goat cheese which he loved also.  

Find the Sausage Wagon (on twitter), you will be glad you did!


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Dino Crawl in Downtown Durham

For my friend Matt's Birthday, we decided to do a walking, eating and drinking exploration of downtown Durham on a Friday night. The weather was perfect and all the places we went were within a half mile (see below and link google map). I highly recommend getting to know downtown Durham. We tracked our dino crawl with a small card (above) that we filled out with dino pencils about the quantity of beverages (witnessed, of course, not that I don't trust ya) and about our good time (people were creative here). Here are the links to the places we went to. And yes, we did have designated drivers, of course.

Started off at Bull McCabes for dinner at 6pm, then Whiskey (new bar, had $3 drafts of good beer), Dos Perros (new restaurant closes at 10:30 but looking to open for late night later), Revolution (white leather bar stools and great mixed drinks), Pinhook (to catch some live music), then to West End Wine Bar (at West Village, they had some delicious chocolate covered potato chips). A couple of people hit the Federal earlier in the day.

We saw Durham's finest on Bicycles throughout the evening and it was great running into friends as we walked around. There are plenty of places to go. I have to say even with a bunch of people, we had great service from all the places. Sitting outside was great since the weather was nice at Whiskey and West End Wine Bar.

Let me know of suggestions for our next time out....




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