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The Matador Cantina Announces Appointment of Executive Chef Dave Dennis
Located in Historic Downtown Fullerton, the cuisine will be a fusion of native and contemporary Mexican favorites with a hint of other cultural flavors. - March 07, 2009 - The Matador Cantina
Learn to Cook via Twitter @Sweetmandarin
What’s Twitter got to do with cooking? For the home cooks who end up tearing their hair out on what to cook read on or tweet on. Lisa Tse, CEO of Sweet Mandarin, an award winning restaurant and cookery school is tweeting you free recipes, cooking tips and a real time cookery school via... - March 05, 2009 - Sweet Mandarin
The Matador Cantina Brings Authentic Mexican Cuisine to North Orange County
The Matador Cantina is set to open its doors to the public in late March, 2009 in the heart of Historic Downtown Fullerton. The menu will feature a fresh fusion of native and contemporary Mexican-inspired cuisines. - March 01, 2009 - The Matador Cantina
Hi-5 Wins Midtown Magazine 2008 Diamond Award
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Hi-5 has won the 2008 Midtown Diamond Award for best place to watch the big game presented by Midtown Magazine. The Midtown Diamond Awards are voted on by readers and showcase readers’ favorites in... - February 28, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
La Gondola Chicago Italian Restaurant Launches Facebook Fan Page
La Gondola’s Facebook fan page lets users of the popular social media network to get the latest updates about their favorite Chicago eatery including special offers, reviews, menu additions, new hours, events, awards, or add their own reviews and comments. - February 27, 2009 - La Gondola
Healthy Kids Food Café Franchise is in High Demand
tumble & tea café has sparked Over 800 requests to franchise with its hot take on one of the leading trends of 2009: healthy food…especially for kids. - February 22, 2009 - tumble & tea cafe
Michael Dean’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar Participates in A Toast to the Triangle
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Michael Dean’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar will participate in the 24th annual A Toast to the Triangle (www.atoasttothetriangle.org) event. The Toast celebrates the Triangle’s culinary arts... - February 21, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Sweet Mandarin is the First UK Chinese Restaurant to Use Twitter to Beat the Credit Crunch and Boost Business
Sweet Mandarin in Manchester, UK - is the first UK Chinese Restaurant to use Twitter for Business - bookings, takeaways and Twitter has increased the business and strengthened the community. Beating the credit crunch, this is a great example for all businesses to fight back. - February 15, 2009 - Sweet Mandarin
The Red Room Tapas Lounge Hosts Skirt! After Work
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that The Red Room Tapas Lounge is hosting Skirt! After Work on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 5:30 p.m. The event, sponsored by Skirt!®, the American Heart Association and The Red Room, focuses on raising heart health... - February 14, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Rocky Top Hospitality Announces Early Dinner Promotion Extended
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced the early dinner promotion has been extended through the end of March. The promotion is valid every day from 5 – 6 p.m. and consists of a complimentary entrée with the purchase of an entrée at... - February 12, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
SAVOY Savory Seminars: Seeking Subject Matter Experts
SAVOY, North Raleigh’s affordable fine dining and upscale business lunch location, is putting a new spin on the educational lunch seminar. Usually the presenter has to find a restaurant to hold their event. In this case, the restaurant – SAVOY – is finding the... - February 06, 2009 - Savoy
Tiki’s Grill & Bar Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Deal. Island Style with Island Cuisine.
Cupid will make a direct hit for Valentine’s this year at Tiki’s Grill & Bar. Executive Chef Kapolanialaimaka S. Kealoha invites guests to sample the flavors of three local items from three Hawaiian Islands. Tiki’s will be offering Valentine lovers a special menu all weekend... - February 04, 2009 - Tiki's Grill & Bar
Tickets Now on Sale for Super Bowl Event at Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill
Jim Mallon, managing partner of Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill (www.jackastors.com), located at 2300 Walnut St. in Cary, has announced that tickets for the restaurant’s annual Super Bowl party are now available for purchase. The private event, which is Sunday, Feb. 1 at 5:30 p.m., will... - February 01, 2009 - Jack Astor's Bar and Grill
The Red Room Wins Midtown Magazine 2008 Diamond Award
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that The Red Room Tapas Lounge has won the 2008 Midtown Diamond Award for best Martini presented by Midtown Magazine. The Midtown Diamond Awards are voted on by readers and showcase readers’ favorites in... - January 31, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Pizzeria Installs One of a Kind Pizza Oven
Michael Angelo's Pizza in Kenton, OH recently installed Ohio's only known rotating brick oven to feature natural soapstone as the bricks rather than the more common man-made stones known as Fibrament. It is one of only a dozen or so of the rotating style ovens in the state. According to Michael... - January 27, 2009 - Michael Angelo's Pizza, Inc.
Fred's Brings College Night to Old Pasadena Every Wednesday
Fred's welcomes back College Night every Wednesday from 8pm-2am with $1 drinks and dancing. 21 & Over. Dress code enforced. DJ starts at 10pm. - January 27, 2009 - Freds Mexican Cafe
Devane's Old Town Restaurant Celebrates Grand Opening
Located in the heart of La Quinta, Devane's Old Town Restaurant hosted its official grand opening to a packed house of local leaders and invited guests. - January 26, 2009 - Devane’s
Devane's Italian Kitchen Launches New Menus
Value Dishes are Featured to Help in Today’s Tight Economy. - January 24, 2009 - Devane’s
Panera Bread® to Celebrate the Most Important Meal of the Day with Free Cups of Its New Coffee and Samples of New Breakfast Items
Bakery-Cafes Support Local Communities by Raising Funds for Operation-Dough Nation® Recipients Something big is brewing at Panera Bread, and you’re invited. On Wednesday, January 28, Birmingham, Alabama area bakery-cafes are inviting customers to celebrate Panera’s new breakfast... - January 22, 2009 - Panera Bread
New Family Restaurant Concept Franchising Nationwide
tumble & tea café is the pioneering new family restaurant with a custom-designed indoor play space for kids. This family restaurant combines the comfortable lounge style seating & gourmet food adults seek with the ultimate play space kids love. - January 16, 2009 - tumble & tea cafe
Rocky Top Hospitality Selected to Cater Triangle Heart Ball VIP Party
Katherine White, catering director of Rocky Top Hospitality’s catering company, 1705Prime Catering & Events (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that the firm was contracted to provide catering services to the American Heart Association’s 2009 Triangle Heart Ball VIP auction... - January 11, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Posh Indoor Play Space Café Sparks Over 800 Requests to Franchise by First Month
tumble & tea cafe is a posh wifi cafe with an indoor play space for kids. It's the concept attracting interest worldwide, for the first time parents can be adults while their kids don't give up being a kid. - January 08, 2009 - tumble & tea cafe
Rocky Top Hospitality Sponsors Triangle Heart Ball
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Rocky Top Hospitality will sponsor the American Heart Association’s 2009 Triangle Heart Ball that will take place on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Embassy Suites in Cary. The Triangle Heart Ball recognizes... - January 04, 2009 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Figgy Goes to New York
Figaro’s Pizza Launches New New York Style Pizza. - December 31, 2008 - Figaro’s Pizza
Tiki's Economic Adjustment Package - Saves the Company Holiday Party
HONOLULU—Tiki’s Grill & Bar has heard that many Oahu companies have cancelled their holiday parties because of lower than anticipated profits. Tiki’s has created an affordable packaged offer to save the Company Holiday Party tradition. Companies with shrinking budgets for... - December 17, 2008 - Tiki's Grill & Bar
New Café Concept Lets Parents be Adults and Kids be Kids
tumble & tea cafe is the hot new posh wifi cafe concept that gives parents the ultimate escape with its gourmet food and hip ambiance that finally lets them be adults. All the while their kids stay happy with a custom indoor play space and hassle free birthday parties. - December 12, 2008 - tumble & tea cafe
Savoy Hosts Lunch and Learn Program
Chefs Peter Gibson and Marshall Smith have announced that Savoy, (www.restaurantsavoy.com) a contemporary continental restaurant located at 7713-39 Lead Mine Road in north Raleigh, hosted a sold out lunch and learn program on Wednesday, Dec. 3 from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. The event is a Holiday... - December 07, 2008 - Savoy
Figaro's Announces New Executive Vice President
Rick Glenn Promoted to EVP of Figaro’s Pizza. - December 04, 2008 - Figaro’s Pizza
Celebrity Chef to Make Personal Appearance
Celebrity Chef Lou Petrozza of Fox TV’s Hell’s Kitchen fame, appearing at Cheeburger Cheeburger on Sanibel Island, Florida. Thousands of people across America were rooting for Executive Chef Lou Petrozza to win in last season's nail-biter reality TV show Hell’s Kitchen. Now you... - November 25, 2008 - Cheeburger Cheeburger Restaurants, Inc.
Picholine Introduces a New Fall Menu; Chef-Proprietor Terrance Brennan Adds New Tasting Menus and a New Kitchen Brigade
Terrance Brennan, Chef-Proprietor of Picholine, a two-Michelin star restaurant, introduces his most inspired fall menu yet, including a new seven-course Game Tasting Menu and a first-ever sixteen-course Chef’s Tasting Menu. In 2007, Brennan sold Artisanal Premium Cheese, the wholesale and... - November 19, 2008 - Picholine
Stevi B’s Makes Mom the Hero at Mealtimes in Columbia with Grand Reopening of Area’s First Location
Restaurant Reopens with Huge Fanfare from Local Residents, Fort Jackson Families and the Business Lunch Crowd. - November 15, 2008 - Stevi B’s, Columbia
Pink Tiki Drink to Support the Queen’s Cancer Center
Pink Tiki’s launch and Queens Cancer Center, given VIP passes for donors, volunteers, and survivors. - November 13, 2008 - Tiki's Grill & Bar
Hi-5 Hosts Memories For Marcus Toy Drive
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Hi-5 will be hosting the third annual Memories For Marcus toy drive on Wednesday, Dec. 3 from 6 – 9 p.m. at 510 Glenwood Avenue. The event will benefit the WakeMed Children’s Center through the... - November 05, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Local Restaurateur, Dean Ogan to Speak at Women Business Owners Network Event
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Women Business Owners Network (WBON) event on Wednesday, Nov. 12 from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Matthews House, located at 317 West Chatham Street, Cary. Ogan will discuss... - October 30, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Rocky Top’s Brie Pasick Joins Logistics Committee for the Triangle Heart Ball
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Brie Pasick, catering manager for 1705 Catering and Events, Rocky Top Hospitality’s catering company and event facility, has been named to the logistics committee for the American Heart Association’s 2009 Triangle Heart Ball that will take place on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Embassy Suites in Cary. - October 26, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Mt Pleasant’s Coco’s Café Introduces New Catering Service in Time for Holidays
With the holiday party season just around the corner, Coco’s Café is taking its brand of affordable French cuisine directly to private parties and special events. The new catering manager, Tim Schaefer, is bringing his years of experience to the restaurant’s latest culinary... - October 24, 2008 - Coco's Cafe
The Counter Unveils Choice 2008
With over 312,120 possible burger combinations, The Counter clearly prides itself on the freedom of choice it gives to its guests. Now, the Culver City-based build-your-own burger concept is taking its theory one step further: Inspired by the importance of the upcoming presidential election, The... - October 22, 2008 - The Counter
Dean Ogan Named to Chamber Board of Directors
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has been appointed to serve on the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Ogan will serve as a liaison between the Chamber and the community to sustain and further develop the region’s thriving economy... - October 22, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Hi-5 Honored in Four Best of the Triangle 2008 Awards
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Hi-5 has been honored in four of Independent Weekly’s 2008 Best of the Triangle awards. Hi-5 was named one of the best sports bars and one of the best places for bar food in Wake County. The restaurant... - October 18, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
The Twisted Fork Named One of the Top Ten Restaurants for Lunch and Outdoor Dining
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that The Twisted Fork has been named one of the top ten restaurants in two Diners’ Choice lists on OpenTable.com. The Twisted Fork ranked in the top ten in the categories of Great for Lunch Restaurants and... - October 15, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Bogart’s American Grill Honored Twice in Best of the Triangle 2008 Awards
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Bogart’s American Grill has been honored twice in Independent Weekly’s 2008 Best of the Triangle awards. Bogart’s was named one the best martinis and one of the best places for business... - October 12, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill Hosts Speaking of Women’s Health Volunteer Appreciation Party
Jim Mallon, managing partner of Jack Astor’s Bar and Grill (www.jackastors.com) located at 2300 Walnut St., has announced that the restaurant will host the Speaking of Women’s Health (www.swhraleigh.com) Volunteer Appreciation Party on Wednesday, Oct. 15. The party will honor volunteers... - October 10, 2008 - Jack Astor's Bar and Grill
The Twisted Fork Wins MetroBravo Award
Rocky Top Hospitality Restaurant Recognized by Metro Magazine - October 09, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Boo! Bubbalou's BBQ is a Treat for Halloween Parties.
Find out how can treat your Halloween party guests instead of playing tricks on them by serving delicious barbecue from Bubbalou's Catering. - October 08, 2008 - Bubbalou's BBQ Restaurant
Figaro's Retains Food Industry Marketing Veteran
Figaro’s Pizza is proud to announce Patty Duffey has been retained to fill the duties of vice president of marketing, effective immediately. Duffey comes to Figaro’s after nearly 30 years in the food industry, during which time she held senior positions with a variety of well-known... - October 05, 2008 - Figaro’s Pizza
The Red Room Partners with Go Red for Women
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that The Red Room Tapas Lounge will host a VIP premiere event for Go Red For Women, a campaign designed to help women fight heart disease on Thursday, Oct. 9 from 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. at 510 Glenwood South in... - October 05, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
New $25 Menu - Complete 5 Course Dinner
The Imperial Fez Moroccan Restaurant is now accommodating the economic crisis by making their menu affordable, starting at $25 per person for a complete 5 Course Dinner. They continue featuring a spectacular belly dancing show nightly. The new days of operation are now Tuesday to Saturday from 6p.m. - October 04, 2008 - Imperial Fez
The Spa at Stage Neck Now Serving Area Residents and Visitors with Bonus Access to the Inn’s Indoor Pool, Jacuzzi and Sauna
Stage Neck Inn is opening its new full-service day spa, The Spa at Stage Neck, to York residents and area visitors. As an added bonus, spa patrons may utilize the Inn’s indoor pool, Jacuzzi, sauna and locker rooms before or after their spa treatment. The Spa at Stage Neck is a joint venture between Stage Neck Inn and Genesis Day Spa, Ogunquit. Spa services range from nail treatments to innovative body wraps and thermal therapies. Complete spa services menus: http://www.TheSpaatStageNeck.com. - October 03, 2008 - Stage Neck Inn
Hi-5 Featured on the Biggest Loser’s Season Premiere
Dean Ogan, owner of Rocky Top Hospitality (www.rockytophospitality.com), has announced that Hi-5 was featured on NBC’s hit reality show “The Biggest Loser”. Local contestants Ed and Heba (the orange team) were dining at Hi-5 in downtown Raleigh when personal trainer Bob Harper,... - October 02, 2008 - Rocky Top Hospitality
Hissho Sushi Expands in California
Hissho Sushi ('he-show'; n. certain victory) manages and operates high-end, full-service sushi bars in supermarkets, cafes, hospitals and other retail outlets. - October 01, 2008 - Hissho Sushi