We had a great turnout last night for the Triangle Foodie Tweetup at Fearrington's new beer garden called The Roost. I still haven't quite recovered from all the good food and wine, followed by dinner at Jujube in Chapel Hill for Triangle Restaurant Week.
I wanted to thank my co-hosts: the folks at Fearrington, @FearringtonNC; Johanna Kramer, @durhamfoodie; the Indy's Food editor Amber Nimock, @ambernim; N&O's Sunday Dinner columnist Debbie Moose, @debbiemoose. We missed N&O's Weekend Gourmet columnist Fred Thompson but we love Belinda Ellis, his partner-in-crime over at Edible Piedmont, so we're happy she got to join us.
It was so nice to finally meet the folks behind their twitter screen names. I was so happy to meet @yancyscot @TheMasalaWala @joekwon80, the couple behind @RDUGonnaEat, the ladies behind @gwgdurham,
@gaggingtowards @jeffreylcohen, @markpetko, @thegourmez, @nutellaisevil, @greeneatsblog, @tubafrenzy and more. I'm sure I'm missing some folks so please forgive me.
I'm sorry that I didn't get to meet @TheEcofoodie and the others.
I think Fearrington's Executive Chef Colin Bedford and his staff did an excellent job with all the food. As @yancyscot said, "This was the best food at a tweetup ever!" I can't stop thinking about that shortrib wrapped in bacon!
I need to actually write some stories for the paper so I'll choose winners of those six cookbooks you saw last night tomorrow when I get back in the office.
Thanks to all who came out! We'll have to start pondering where and when to have another foodie tweetup...
If you want to know what you missed, follow the discussion at #trifoodietweetup
Or you can take a look at some photos:
@abbyladybug just posted some photos HERE.
@joekwon80 did a post with photos HERE.
@newsobserver posted photos HERE.
@durhamfoodie has a couple photos HERE. (But I want to know where she has posted the ones of her eating the macaroons!)
