Eat My Charlotte

Creative Loafing’s next Eat My Charlotte Foodie Tour is being planning for January. Our last tour on Nov. 7, featured tacos from restaurants down South Boulevard. The response we got back from our first tour was wonderful — tour-goers said had a great time and everyone is eager to buy tickets for our next tour asap.  So now we’d like your input: What food should our next food tour feature? We’ve got a lot of tasting and testing to do, so we’ve got to narrow down our next food item soon!

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Creative Loafing hosted our first Eat My Charlotte Foodie Tours on Saturday, Nov. 7. The tour featured authentic tacos from restaurants down South Boulevard, along with Mexican beers and churros. Did you happen to see a red double-decker bus driving around town? That was us!

If you missed out on this tour, we’ll have another Foodie Tour hitting the streets in January. Stay tuned for info about which food we will feature next…

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Photos by Alison Henry and Priscilla Tsai.

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Check out this sweet addition to the Eat My Charlotte Taco Tour:

On Saturday we’ll be eating four tacos, Mexican beers, chips and salsa, and churros, so be sure to wear your stretchy pants … or even better, overalls (no waistband)!

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For those of you who are attending our Saturday “Eat My Charlotte Foodie Tour: Tacos,” get excited.

Today I went out with our publisher to hand pick your beer for the double-decker bus ride. We stopped at Supermercado Romero’s on South Boulevard and hauled out these authentic goodies for you:

Modelo and Tecate!

And while we were there, we couldn’t resist purchasing some of the warm baked goods from the panederia y pasteleria!

The yummy scent of sweet breads and cookies envelope the store calling customers over to the display of goodies spanning an entire wall. The store bakes all their breads and pastries in-house throughout the day so they are amazingly fresh.

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K.O. Sushi located in Uptown on Third and Tryon Street (next to Jimmy John’s) offers convenience when it comes to sushi. This sushi spot specializes in to-go and delivery orders only. If you are hankering for some quick sushi, get it delivered to you Uptown for only $1. I ordered what they said was their most popular roll — the Volcano Roll.

I called in the order by phone (you can also use their easy online ordering form) and the roll was delivered to our office 30 minutes later at the total price of $10.93. The Volcano Roll looked like a mound of pasta, according to a co-worker. The spicy sushi came as a block of a california rolls baked with a layer of spicy mayo and crab on top. It was warm and slightly (and strangely) greasy. Maybe for next time for delivery sushi, I’ll should stick to the more traditional rolls.

My sushi order with the "ingredients" swimming around in the background.

The Volcano Roll.

K.O. Sushi
230 S Tryon St # R1
Charlotte, NC 28202-3262
704-372-7757

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Like our nightlife writer Brittney Cason has said, there is currently an Asian invasion in Charlotte.

Restaurants serving up Asian cuisine are popping up everywhere Uptown. Basil showed up earlier this year at the corner of Church and 5th Street serving up tasty Thai dishes. IndoChine Grill with Vietnamese fare opened its doors at the EpiCentre in the spring. Room 112 made a sly appearance as the summer began dishing out sushi at the corner of Trade and Tryon streets.  Then there was Enso at the EpiCentre in August. And Fiji Sushi Bar & Lounge on 5th Street opens up tonight!

For this 24-hour Blog-o-thon today, I’ll be rolling through town on a sushi sampling tour.

Stuffing my face with signature rolls from a handful sushi restaurants sounds like a fabulous day to me. If cruising through Charlotte sampling foods is your idea of fun, you should join us on our first Eat My Charlotte Foodie Tour on Nov. 7. We’ll bus you around town to sample authentic tacos at taquerias on South Boulevard. Get more info here.

And I’m off…

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* SOLD OUT! We’ve reached the maximum number of guests. Please join us next time!

If you consider yourself an adventurous eater and love to chomp your way through Charlotte, come join us on Creative Loafing’s first Eat My Charlotte Foodie Tour — which is sponsored by our popular food blog Eat My Charlotte — on Saturday, Nov. 7.

Our Foodie Tours will bus you around town to taste a specific cuisine or dish at different locally owned restaurants. Each time, we’ll provide transportation, drinks, food and fun.

This debut tour will focus on tacos. We’ll take you to a variety of eateries on South Boulevard where you can sample tacos to your heart’s content. In all, we’ll stop at four different locations (including, yes, a taco truck!) that feature authentic tastes from south of the border.

The tour will include transportation on a charter bus from Uptown, beers, tacos and dessert.

Taco Tour!
Saturday, Nov. 7
11 am – 2 pm

Price: $20 (everything included)

Itinerary:
11 am – Meet uptown at the Creative Loafing office at the N.C. Music Factory View Map

Ride and drink down South Blvd.

Visit Lempira for Honduran style tacos.

Taqueria Mexicana for fish tacos.

La Unica for tacos al pastor.

Taco truck!

Drinks and dessert on bus.

2 pm – Arrive back to N.C. Music Factory.

Purchase tickets here.

Get excited!

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