The Asheville Citizen-Times today confirms news reported Sept. 19 at Asheville Food News and on Twitter, and which I reported here on Monday.
From the Citizen-Times:
The popular downtown eatery will open a larger restaurant in the former Stir Fry Café building at 1829 Hendersonville Road in south Asheville by mid January or early February, owner Steve Frabitore said today.
The original restaurant at 12 College St. will remain, he said.“You will walk in and immediately recognize that it’s Tupelo Honey Café,” Frabitore said of the new site.
The second store will offer the same “made-from-scratch Southern cuisine” menu that made the downtown restaurant popular among residents and visitors. But the larger facility – 150 seats compared with the 62 downtown – will enable the restaurant to take reservations and accommodate large groups.
Great news! Another added benefit — the addition of about 70 new jobs.
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Wasn’t Tupelo Honey the restaurant that was selling t-shirts online so that their employees could have some kind of health insurance?
It is also a place you’ll be able to pick a copy of Mountain Xpress.
WLOS had it Tuesday afternoon.
Can not wait for this. They will need to get the word out to survive. The center sits way off the road and will shortly have an out parcel blocking sight of them from H-ville road. Lets help them out by spreading the word.