Blog Topic: Foodie Fun

In the Loop: Ride Free Buses to Brunch and the Farmers Market This Weekend

By Blake Aued | August 14, 2015 12:15pm

Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file

Starting this Saturday through Dec. 19, you can catch a free bus to the Athens Farmers Market, except on football gamedays.

The “Fresh Food Bus” will run on Saturday mornings every hour from 8:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. and will stop at Building S, Memorial Hall/the Tate Center, the Multimodal Center and Russell Hall. A full schedule is available here.

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Grub Notes: Mannaweenta Opens, the Classic City BBQ Fest and More Food News

By Hillary Brown | August 13, 2015 12:31pm

Photo Credit: Athens Land Trust

Mannaweenta owner Hergu Bahtu at the West Broad Market Garden.

Mannaweenta (previously covered here and here in Flagpole), which has been serving Ethiopian and Etritrean food at the West Broad Farmers' Market for a couple of years, is officially open in the shopping center at 1055 Gaines School Road, next to the Omni on the Eastside, and will hold a grand opening Friday at 6 p.m. Regular hours are 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

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Grub Notes: Food Events Around Athens Happening Soon (Spring Cometh)

By Hillary Brown | April 8, 2015 10:56am

Photo Credit: Photo via Kickstarter

Shotgun Dinners' pig roast

April is a time for food events in Athens, just as it is a time for every other kind of event. Here is some of what's coming up:

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Grub Notes: Athens Farmers Market Opens This Weekend… with Farm Cart

By Hillary Brown | April 2, 2015 3:55pm

Oh, hai, remember when we teased you and told you Farm Cart was returning to life and would be serving at the Athens Farmers Market? We were only a year off…

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Grub Notes: FREE BBQ! (We're Not Kidding)

By Blake Aued | March 3, 2015 4:47pm

Community Connection of Northeast Georgia and other Athens nonprofits are sponsoring a series of four free pig roasts across Athens. All you have to do is fill out an anonymous survey about your health care needs.

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Grub Notes: Georgia Organics Dinner and More Food News

By Hillary Brown | February 18, 2015 10:53am

Photo Credit: Porter McLeod

Whitney Otawka

As part of this weekend's Georgia Organics conference, you can still buy tickets to the benefit dinner Whitney Otawka (late of Cinco y Diez) is hosting to highlight local farms.

For $65, you get four courses…

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Grub Notes: January Events and More Food News

By Hillary Brown | January 12, 2015 2:15pm

Seabear Oyster Bar is hosting an Athens Chefs Dinner this MLK Day, at 7 p.m., with eight courses plus beer pairings by Creature Comforts for $60. Call the restaurant at 706-850-4367 for reservations (only 40 seats available).

On Jan. 28, at 7 p.m., the State Botanical Garden of Georgia will host the latest in UGA's series of science cafés, "Everyday Fermentation," with Hugh Acheson leading a live kimchi demonstration.

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Grub Notes: Here's Where to Get Holiday Takeout in Athens

By Hillary Brown | December 17, 2014 4:35pm

Photo Credit: Photo via Facebook

Heirloom Cafe

So, just like we did for Thanksgiving, we're supplying you with a list of places from which to order your food for the holidays. It'll be updated as we hear more.

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Grub Notes: Taste of Athens Has New Flavor

By Blake Aued | November 10, 2014 4:28pm

American Winter, an HBO documentary about social services in Portland, OR, is a terrifying look at just how quickly the upper-middle and working classes alike can slip into poverty and homelessness.

Community Connection screened the film Sunday to kick off its revamped Taste of Athens. The Feb. 22 event will be scaled back considerably, moving from the Classic Center Grand Hall to the atrium, allowing the 20-plus participating chefs to focus on food and hospitality, rather than simply feeding 2,000 people.

A new event, Toast of Athens, a cocktail competition, will be added next year. Bartenders from eight local watering holes will compete to see who makes the best libation in town.

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Grub Notes: Drag Brunch at the National Sunday

By Hillary Brown | November 7, 2014 10:53am

If you still miss both breakfast and brunch at The National, neither of which is available anymore, and/or you really prefer your eggs with a side of false eyelashes, note thatBoybutante's annual Drag Brunch is taking place at the restaurant this Sunday.

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