Tir Na Nog feast
Every other Wednesday, Raleigh's Tir Na Nog offers a gourmet twist in a simple food favorite. The next such feast featuring biscuits will be this Wednesday.
The menu includes fried oysters, crispy collards and a spicy rémoulade sauce on a biscuit, a Raleigh cheese steak biscuit that features pulled pork, caramelized onions, pepper jack cheese sauce and pickled okra and a braised lamb shank biscuit with horseradish sauce and a mint and arugula salad.
The restaurant is at 218 S. Blount St. Call 833-7795 for a reservation.
Wedding cake deals
Chapel Hill's Sugarland bakery is offering a winter wedding cake special.
For cakes for 2010 weddings within 50 miles from the bakery, you can order a three-tiered cake to feed 80 people for $159 or a three-tiered cake to feed 100 for $199. Orders must be placed by Dec. 31.
For additional details about the specials, call 929-2100.
A local documentary team also did a video on the bakery. To see it, go to vimeo.com/8124489
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