La Vida Comida – Coffee, Donuts, and Dead Celebs

Hello Asheville!

Well, October has come and gone, and I miss it already! Lots of brown and orange food, tons of candy, a little kid dressed like a dead celebrity, what a great month!

Below, please find a photo gallery from the last few days of mi vida comida. You can click on the thumbnails to view larger versions and if you have any questions about any of the food or venues depicted below, please use the comments section, and I will answer you if I can!

I hope you enjoy the pictures, and get to try some of the food yourselves!

CLICK ON THE THUMBNAILS TO VIEW LARGER VERSIONS

: Nourish & Flourish on Depot Street in The River Arts District.

: Yum, juice!

: I love the mellow atmosphere at Nourish & Flourish

: Late night espresso at Soveriegn Remedies.

: Coffee & Donut pairing at Vortex Doughnuts on Banks Ave, South Slope.

: Same pairing, different angle.

: Same pairing same angle on Instagram.

: Ha ha! I love The Prospect’s “eff you ” attitude.

: You know what? I eat out so much, I literally don’t know where this pixture is from, or what it’s of. Soup? Buxton Hall? Who knows.

: Beef enchiladas and cheese sauce from Mamacita’s.

: A different coffee pairing from Vortex. I’m all about these mini-donuts.

: My buddy Mark came into town for one night, so I took him to Catawba Brewing on Banks Ave, South Slope.

: Mark pushes his glasses up, giving the “old man finger.”

: I brought coffee and a donut from Vortex to Catawba. They’s cool like that. Also: Mmm… jerky.

: Mark got a “Cream Ale,” at Catawba. He said it was his first cream ale since HighSchool.

: Smoked sausage, baked beans and potato salad at Buxton Hall BBQ on Banks Ave, South Slope.

: The slaw and sausages were great, but the taters and beans were a little bland for me.

: This is a terrible picture of tasty tempeh sandwich from City Bakery. It was little sweet for my tastes, but I enjoyed it none the less.

: Ermergerd. I’ve been gettign the $6 double cheese burger and fries special at Bull and Beggar almost every Monday Night.

: Burger closey, with errant bit of mayo.

: This pulled BBQ chicken sandwich from Buxton Hall BBQ was actually a little too sweet for me. I ate every single bite though!

: Chef Elliott brought this chicken salad dip to my table it is was ficking AWESOME! I’m telling you, this place has awesome dips.

: Smoked oysters from Buxton Hall BBQ. Fucking YUM!

: I guess I ate a lot of food in October that I found to be too sweet, because that was also the case with this banana creme pie from Buxton Hall.

: I made fun of Master Roaster Bill Tanner from PennyCup Coffee Co. for his lack of Cappuccino art skills. Bloop.

: $6 burger and fries again at Bull & Beggar. You have to buy a drink to get the special, and they let me get a house-made soda, because I don’t drink booze. Anymore.

: I popped into Vortex on their One-Year anniversay, too late for a free donut, damnit! They gave away 365 free donugts, Yo!

: I happened upon the new Red Ginger Dim Sum joint in progress and snuck a few pics.

: Looooking goooood!

: Cool deets make for awesome decor.

: The guys inside looked too busy to bother, so I didn’t ask Q’s, even though I wanted to!

: The outside porch at Red Ginger looks great! I hope they keep it a cigarette free area.

: I signed-up as an “owner” at the French Broad Food Co-op this month!

: Clare Schwartz walked me through the process and we shot four videos that are currently posted on FaceBook.

: Co-op employee Heart Rose was aaalllll did up for Halloween! YAY!!!

: I got a burger at Chestnut. It was good!

: They always pre-cut my burger at Chestnut, and I learned from Chef Joe, that that’s how they know that it’s cooked right before sending it out. Neat!

: Dawn got the crazy looking Fizz at Imperial Life. She said it was awesome.

: Dawn got some fancy raw fish and melon thingy at Iperial Life. I got corn dogs.

: A pumpkin vomitting humas at the Halloween Poster Art Show.

: Brain shaped fish dip by Queen B Chef.

: Spooky Candies!

: More spooky candies!

: Here’s Chef Shanon AKA Queen B.

: A donut covered in candy from Vortex. Yep.

: Handing out candy at my sister’s house, the two best costumes were dead Kurt Cobain and…

: Satan.

: My sister, my self, and Dawn Roe on Halloween Night. Bye, October!

What a fun month, and that wasn’t even the half of it! I’m looking forward to November, the start of the holiday EATING season!

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Stu Helm is an artist, writer, and podcaster living in Asheville, NC, and a frequent diner at local restaurants, cafes, food trucks, and the like. His tastes run from hot dogs and mac ‘n’ cheese, to haute cuisine, and his opinions are based on a lifetime of eating out. He began writing about food strictly to amuse his friends on Facebook.