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Harvest on Main in Blue Ridge a Great Go-To Dining Experience

Fabulous wait personnel, great attention to detail and honestly friendly personalities. Barb and I loved every minute at Harvest On Main.
Fabulous wait personnel, great attention to detail and honestly friendly personalities. Barb and I loved every minute at Harvest On Main.

AmericanPressTravelNews.com—August 21st,-Bob & Barb in Blue Ridge for– “On The  Road Again” and “Stopping to Smell the Roses” Columns.

Not very far from our Goose Holler’ farm inTennessee and about 2-hours from Atlanta can be found a very enjoyable vacation hill, mountain region and town called Blue Ridge, in Fannin County. There are so many interesting stores catering to what a visitor and new home owner would enjoy bringing home to decorate and or use in their abodes. After and before also peering into the windows and crossing the threshold of several gift and antique shops, we ventured into a premier harvest to table, local produce and foods emporium called; “Harvest On Main.”  It’s interesting to know that the owners; the Cook’s, purchased a 28-acre property and created a farm that is their culinary garden and teaching center—for the production of their specialty produce, as well as eggs and honeys.

They offer very fine farm to table dinners, plus farm to table classes for kids. There is much more on the horizon in the Cook’s desire to be as food independent and fresh with all manner of farm meats and other items for their restaurant.

Comfortable and spacious with a strong feeling of being in a mountain home.
Comfortable and spacious with a strong feeling of being in a mountain home.

We met Chef Danny, and his dishes are authentic and studied- delicious for diners. Danny does rely on all surrounding farms in and around Blue Ridge, as they also provide the special ingredients used by Chef Danny. We ordered on the menu lisiting, pecan encrusted Bramlett Farms of GA. Trout, Pecan Sweet potatoes, citrus Beurre Blanc with Lemon Arugala salad. And, we chose a special of the evening: Rockfish pan seared (Striped Bass) roasted Tomatillo and black bean soup with white rice finished with Avocado and corn salsa “multi belle.” The dishes were memorable and worth every cent! Check them out at:  576 E Main St, Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge, GA 30513-7153+1 706-946-6164

We both shared our meals and Barb and I felt it was a spectacular trout dish. We left nothing for the dishwasher!!
We both shared our meals and Barb and I felt it was a spectacular trout dish. We left nothing for the dishwasher!!
The right hand man at the restaurant showed us the Cook Farms quail.
The right hand man at the restaurant showed us the Cook Farms quail.
Rockfish (Striped bass) dish was a special the evening we were at Harvest On Main!
Rockfish (Striped bass) dish was a special the evening we were at Harvest On Main!
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A specialty crab appetizer non pariel!

APtravelnews-Saluda, NC, Lots of Great Things at and Heading From The Orchard Inn

 

Bob and Barb "On The Road Again" One of our very favorite places: The Orchard Inn. From great meals, best breakfasts ever and friendly, family caring and oriented owners; The Orchard Inn would be hard to surpass!
Bob and Barb “On The Road Again” One of our very favorite places: The Orchard Inn. From great meals, best breakfasts ever and friendly, family caring and oriented owners; The Orchard Inn would be hard to surpass! Taste of Asheville

Asheville, NC has quickly become the mecca for many things like hiking, brewing, as well as food. When people decide to spend some time in Asheville, they truly get the whole package, which is hard to come by in a smaller town. One way for the world to find out about the amazing restaurants in Asheville is to have a tasting, there is no better way to convince people than through their stomachs. So head to Asheville for the November 20th event!

 View Our Thanksgiving Package

 Special 3-night packages for rooms upstairs in the inn include: room and breakfast for 3 nights, dinners for 2 on Wednesday or Friday night and Thanksgiving Day for only $745. Click below to see even more details.

Enjoy a Meal at Newman’s Restaurant

Locals and travelers are welcome to our cozy Saluda NC restaurant, where you can enjoy the freshest and finest food this side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We are also located near the towns of Asheville, Hendersonville, and Flat Rock.

Request Your Free Vacation Guide to Asheville, NC

 If you are planning a visit to the Asheville, NC area, you should request our free Vacation Guide. The Asheville/Saluda area has so many things to do for a romantic getaway, a family vacation or even a trip for “me time”, and we want to share our suggestions with you!

Simply fill out this form to download our complimentary Vacation Guide to see all that you can take advantage of in Asheville.

Our Guide covers:

  • Restaurants You Will Want To Visit Time & Again
    • Festivals & Attractions You Don’t Want To Miss
    • Outdoor Activities For All Skill Levels
    • Shopping For One-Of-A-Kind Items
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Barb looks over a map of some of the Smoky Mountain Range.
Barb looks over a map of some of the Smoky Mountain Range.
Dinners at Newman's will spoil you!
Dinners at Newman’s will spoil you!

 

 

While hiking gorgeous water features make themselves known loudly and clearly around the Saluda area.
While hiking gorgeous water features make themselves known loudly and clearly around the Saluda area.

Coffee From the JumpinGoat Coffee Roasters

P1060035American Press Travel News-May 29th, Nacoochee Village, Helen, GA.-Bob and Barb “On the Road Again.”

65 to 70-countries in the world grow coffee, and coffee grows best between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. So what does that mean for us caffeine addicts? Well, as scientists have discovered more than 800 different aromatic compounds in coffee there’s no wonder addicts like us drinkers (150-million Americans alone)  really pay attention to an early morning, aromatic and tasty wakeup-call from “siren” coffee!

Oil is the first most traded commodity and coffee is 2nd. For over a thousand years coffee has been consumed, world-wide! Drinking a single cup of coffee provides 300 phytochemicals, which act as anti-oxidants and stay in the body for up to a month. Coffee beans are actually berries and it takes about 40 beans to make one Espresso cup. Dark coffee has less caffeine than from a light roast set of beans. Legends have it that goats actually discovered coffee berries (beans). Seems a herder noticed his goats jumping and running around happily and the herder noticed they had been eating coffee berries. More on coffee nest week, got to go get me a cup so I can jump around some more before I sit down in front of the computer again! 

Crawfish Dinner at the Pour House in Crossville, TN. was Excellent

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Crawfish by the bowl-full to claw through, corn, Andounille sausage, potatoes, we didn’t order it, but our new friends shared the goodness!
We had a terrific crawfish dinner as good as if we were in LA.
We had a terrific crawfish dinner as good as if we were in LA.  

Americanpresstravelnews-May 28th, Goose Holler’ Farm, TN.– B n B ‘s (your aptravelnews writer/photographers)  Wedding Anniversary- OK! So what to do when you reach that day when your wedding anniversary rolls around? Well, you go out to a friendly, great food restaurant, eat and chat with fellow diners and have at least one beer!  That’s what we did yesterday, we went to the Pour House. Barb had cod, I had a shrimp Pour Boy sandwich and our friends the Limoges had the same. Sitting near us on benches for chairs (to encourage that neighborly atmosphere of congeniality and talk) we met several couples, some from TN. a some from Louisiana and some from Gatlinburg all coming to Crossville to enjoy the all-you-can-eat crawfish boil. We tasted everyone else meals, we talked, ate and drank in a very friendly, happy atmosphere! It was our first time at the Pour House with very reasonable prices, and we are going back as much for the food as for the relaxed friendly atmosphere! Ask us about this great spot!