The Big Wheel is a local favorite restaurant in Alderson. With wooden beams and wheel accents, it has a country feel and homey vibe. The menu has lots of home-cooked favorites, as well as a salad bar. I ordered the chicken finger dinner, which came with one trip to the salad bar, a...

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The restaurant with the giant corrugated hot dog sign has been on my wish list ever since I saw the first photo of it. This spot pokes a bit of fun at itself, which I like. I ordered a single dog with chili, slaw, mustard and onions. That's like a mix of Stuart's...

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I absolutely love Lewisburg and all its cute little shops and restaurants. Corn + Flour is a new bakery since the last time I was in the area. They have a variety of bagel sandwiches and prepared salads. On this day, I was feeling the latter and got a combination of broccoli salad,...

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A year or two ago, I had hardly visited anywhere in Parkersburg. Now, I'm quickly making my way through all of the restaurants. The Corner Cafe has a cool entrance that echos the car motif it's just across the lot from. The menu has standard sandwiches, dinner specials and salads. I went for...

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Whiskey River is, apparently, a restaurant owned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. I didn't know this originally, but it makes sense why it was one of the most popular restaurants in the Charlotte airport. The menu is big on wings, beer and the like. But one of my must-have items was there: shrimp and...

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Here's my latest column for the Charleston Gazette-Mail: What’s the one food that conjures up fond memories for you? It could be the cookie recipe passed down to you from your grandma. Maybe a coveted casserole your aunt brought to your family reunions. Or the beans and cornbread you made on chilly fall...

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There was one vegetarian in our group trip, and it's kind of a bummer that more restaurants don't cater to these folks and instead phone in a vegetarian dish. That's not the case at Flower Child, who specifically creates meals for vegetarians and vegans, and if you want meat, it's an add-on. So...

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I first heard of Sweet Republic when Alton Brown named a dish there his favorite sweet he's ever eaten. That's big praise. The ice cream shop has these funky orange circles all over and about a dozen different artisan ice cream flavors. But what I really wanted was one of their specialties: The...

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When a place advertises snow cone margaritas, how do you walk past that without stopping?! Diego Pops is a flashy, funky bar + restaurant with an outdoor bar where we had a few drinks. The first of which was a watermelon lime snow cone margarita: WATERMELON LIME Don Julio Blanco, watermelon liqueur, triple...

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