The Raleigh Downtown Farmers Market will celebrate bees at its "Honey Buzztival" from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. next Wednesday, Oct. 5.

The event will include free honey samples, cooking demonstrations and recipes from instructors at The Chef's Academy, observation hives and demonstrations by local beekeepers, children's activities and live music. Raleigh's Draft Carolina Burgers & Beers will sell lunches and offering samples of a honey-brewed beer.

The special event will be held at the market's usual location in City Plaza on Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh.

More details can be found at www.RaleighEatLocal.com.
 

Rocky Top Hospitality, the local restaurant chain that owns Twisted Fork and the now closed Michael Deans, announced this morning that Hi5 will become Draft Carolina Burgers & Beers located at 510 Glenwood Ave.

Here is what the press release says: "Focused on delivering a fresh and local menu, Draft serves more than 40 North Carolina draft beers, including Rocky Top's own Mash House beers, and offers casual and affordable fare, featuring gourmet burgers made using fresh, all-natural Blue Ribbon Angus beef from Coastal Cattle Company in Ayden, N.C., where cows are fed all-natural feed, mother's milk, Bermuda grass and hay twice a day, and no growth hormones, additives, antibiotics or chemical feed are used. The tavern-casual atmosphere includes five 9-foot billiards tables, an 18-foot shuffleboard table, video games and HD televisions throughout the restaurant."

UPDATE: The switch has already happened. They had their soft opening earlier this month.