Early Girl Eatery/Asheville, North Carolina

Early Girl Eatery

ART, FOOD, LOCAL FARMS, ORGANIC

When you put all those together you come up with Early Girl Eatery.

It is one of those special places where many magical things are all present that make it just wonderful. Asheville is a town of many great restaurants, all vying for the wide range of people who visit. There are tourist up for the fall leaves, families getting together for Thanksgiving, and the everyday business person wanting a great meal.

I had crusted mashed potato cakes with a creamy tomato gravy, thick bacon, and hot biscuits just out of the oven. I was trying to decide between that and fresh raspberry banana pancakes, a very difficult choice.

But of course for an artist, the ambiance is also wonderful. There are local potters work on the tables for salt, pepper and sugar. There are local artists work on every wall. It is a place where an artist feels at home. Asheville is full of so many talented artists that the table doodles hung in the hallway look like a gallery!

I highly recommend this restaurant and make sure it is on my list for every visit.

When you come to Asheville it is a place you don't want to miss, just like Malaprop's (a wonderful independent book store).

A Virtual Day in Ashville/Blue Ridge Mountains

Lets start with breakfast! One of my favorites is Early Girl Eatery, they specialize in healthy, wholesome, and local foods. Asheville restaurants as a whole are dedicated to local foods and local farms. What a difference in taste that makes when foods are not picked green, gassed for color, and shipped across the country.

Asheville is so thick with artists that if you throw a stone, you are bound to hit one! The walls of Early Girls has doodles done on the brown paper from the tables. Most restaurant doodles are very basic, these look like an art gallery!

Here is our pick for breakfast, potato garlicky cakes with fresh home grown tomato gravy, and a whole wheat biscuit(for you Brits it is not sweet!), soft scrambled eggs, and coffee. http://earlygirleatery.com/(also check side website favorites for a clickable version of address)
Now that we have had our late breakfast and lunch together we are off to see the city!