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AVL Wing Thing – Sweet Chili Wings from Wild Ginger Pho Restaurant

My girlfriend Dawn totally rules, and while I was working — doing dispatch support for KickbackAVL — she brought home some chicken wings (and a bahn mi sandwich) from a local Asheville favorite called Wild Ginger to surprise me with! Wild Ginger is a Vietnamese restaurant owned by Mary Ann Tan Ar that is located way out on Hendersonville Road. I don’t get out there nearly as often as I would like…

AVL Wing Thing – Avenue M – N’duja Dry Rub

On my epic journey through the menu at Avenue M with my mom, I encountered a basket of very excellent wings! Chef Andrew McLeod has been following the AVL Wing Thing podcast and posts from the beginning, so I don’t think it was any coincidence that a bright red pile of his n’duja dry rub wings showed up at the table. Visually, they were very cute. They were perhaps some of the smallest in size…

Avenue M – A Feast of Epic Proportions in North Asheville

Some of y’all might remember that time my mom and I put on our masks and drove up to Avenue M to get a veritable FEAST of take out goodness from Chef Andrew McLeod during the pandemic last year. [ At Avenue M in North Asheville, dial ‘M’ for mmmmm! ] Well, that was a spectacular meal that earned the chef and restaurant a nomination for my 2020 Meal of The Year Award [ Stu Helm’s 2020 Food Fan…