Food: Sylva notes from Heinzelmannchen Brewery, Spring St. Cafe, Guadalupe Cafe, Downtown Sylva Association
Sylva’s Spring St. Cafe has a new Executive Chef. Gabriel Finnegan replaces Karl Engelmann, who moved on after a two-year run. Spring St. has reopened for lunches and Tuesday dinners, and has modified its menu slightly, adding a rack of lamb in the evenings. The cafe has operated for just shy of a decade, beneath City Lights Bookstore downtown.
Guadalupe Cafe
What goes around comes around on the small town restaurant scene; Guadalupe Cafe, opened five years ago by Jen Pearson, who once cooked for Faye Holliday when Holliday opened Spring St. Cafe (which she has since sold), has grown popular locally and got a nice tip-of-the-hat last year from Gourmet Magazine. Pearson is taking a few months off to become a mom, and who’s standing in? Holliday.
Heinzelmannchen Brewery
Sylva’s five-year-old Heinzelmannchen Brewery is celebrating both an anniversary and two medal wins at the recent Hickory Hops brewers festival. Heinzelmannchen’s Anniversary celebration beer, Big Amber Gnome, won a Gold Medal and one of its original beers, Black Forest Stout won a bronze.
Brewer Dieter Kuhn said “I continue to brew beer because of my passion. Getting compliments from those who enjoy our beers is the best reward, however bringing home a gold and bronze for doing something you love, certainly sweetens the pot!”
223 beers from 43 breweries were represented at Hickory.
Downtown Sylva Association
Sylva’s DSA is organizing its first annual “Taste of Downtown Sylva” event, planned for June 13th. The afternoon culinary walking tour will include 10 restaurants and a fresh fish market. Tickets $15 each. A limited number of tickets are available, but all the info you want is at www.downtownsylva.org.
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