National Panini Month!: Panzanella's Enewsletter

Ciao from your local goodie!

August is National Panini Month. Honest, we're not making it up! So, celebrate August with one of our delicious, satisfying panini sandwiches on the Lunch and Sunday Brunch menus.

Eco Farm Dinner
Monday, August 23rd, 5:30-9:30 pm
On Monday, August 23rd, please join us for a fun evening of great local food. Enjoy a special menu featuring dishes created with ingredients grown by John & Cindy Soehner of Eco Farm, located in the wilds of Chapel Hill.

Save the Date: Chapel Hill Creamery Farm Dinner
Monday, September 27th

Fresh Farmers' Market Cocktails on Wednesday evenings (and maybe Thursdays). Starting with fresh fruit, veggies and herbs purchased from the Carrboro Farmers' Market on Wednesday afternoons, we invent a fresh sweet or savory bar special (containing alcohol), served every Wednesday during dinner. If the ingredients all last, we'll offer the same cocktail on Thursdays. We'll be featuring the Farmers' Market Cocktail as long as we can get local produce that inspires a cool, delicious summer beverage. Follow us on Twitter, and we'll send you a Tweet about it!

Core Sound Seafood

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Late Night Wednesdays

Summer Wines

Late Night Wednesdays

Late Night Wednesdays continue through August 10-11 pm Live Music & Pizza Join us on the patio for live music every Wednesday in August from 10 - 11 pm. We'll be open until midnight, and serving our delicious pizzas after dinner. The full dinner menu is available until 9 pm. Rob Russell & Friends will provide the music on the 4th. After that, the musicians will be announced. For updates, call us at 919.929.6626, or check the Events page on the WSM website, or follow us on Twitter, and we'll send you a Tweet!

Summer Wine

We have two white wines that are so very perfect for the sultry weather of a North Carolina August. The first is from Minho, Portugal, the second, from Abruzzo, Italy—two places where all of the natives know how a refreshing wine along with spectacularly flavorful food makes summer the season of shameless pleasure. Here in Carrboro, we do our best to support this practice. Famega Vinho Verde 2009 - One of the essential simple pleasures of summer, the Portuguese white wine known as Vinho Verde is meant to be enjoyed young, and not taken too seriously, although Famega's is a truly great one. Vinho Verde literally means "green wine"—'green', as in 'young'. With bright acidity, crisp-apple freshness, and a slight tingly sparkle (called petillance in French), it's the perfect beverage as you cool down and look over the menu, and a lovely accompaniment to all of our salads and seafood dishes, and the poached and scrambled egg dishes (including the no-egg, Vegan Tofu Scramble) on the Brunch menu. It's made from three grapes you may never have heard of - Avesso, Azal, and Pedernã,—all hyperlocal to the small Minho region in the northwest corner of Portugal, which is the source of all Vinho Verde. It's low in alcohol (9.5 percent)—making it so easy to drink in hot weather. With or without food, this wine pairs beautifully with your most lighthearted summer attitude. And, for the time being, this is one of the 3 wines offered at $10 a bottle on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There is simply no reason to deny yourself this summer joy from Portugal. Cantina Frentana Cococciola 2009 - Not as hard to say as you may think, Cococciola (co-co-CHO-la) is a dry white with the delicious clear flavor of peach, subtle herbs and grassiness, brightened by a lovely mineral quality and refreshing acidity. Italy has an astounding number of indigenous grapes, and Cococciola is a native vine in Abruzzo. It is cultivated mostly in the province of Chieti, located on the steep and rocky Adriatic coast, and rarely found in other regional wine zones. Long considered a good blending grape for its ability to balance acidity, Cococciola has more recently been recognized as a grape that stands proudly on its own. This wine's freshness makes it a delightful aperitif, and simply beautiful with all types of seafood dishes. Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy this marvelous white wine while we have it available by the glass and bottle.

Core Sound Seafood

Core Sound Seafood brings the coast right into the dining room. Core Sound Seafood sells directly from the fishermen of Down East Carteret County to the Chapel Hill, Carrboro community through a weekly CSF (community supported fishery) share. Their CFS system gives the fishermen a premium price for their fish, while the cost to the consumer stays low. Most of the fishermen that make up this coastal community have been fishing all their lives. For many, their fishing heritage goes back four or five generations. It is Core Sound Seafood's belief, and we enthusiastically agree, that North Carolina fishermen are a valuable resource, and including them as producers in our state's foodshed is vital. The obvious benefit for Panzanella is a wonderful variety of super-fresh local seafood at a great price. But, Core Sound Seafood also offers us an easy, dependable way to support a way of life and independent businesses on our coast. You can also get fresh and delicious NC seafood for your own kitchen by becoming a CSF member. Core Sound Seafood has convenient ordering, payment and pick up arrangements. For more information and great, easy recipes, email them.

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Through August 16th "Layers" Oil Paintings by Cat Moleski New Art Coming: "Port Series" mixed media acrylic paintings by Jenifer Padilla August 17 - October 18, 2010 Public Reception: Monday, September 13th, 5:30 - 7:30 pm Jenifer Padilla paints with a visible fury, and also with calm, with the searching eyes of a lost tourist, and a mystical sense of where she is going. She brings natural and industrial objects, her immediate surroundings and distant places, memories and digital records into the construction of a place that seems both exotic and familiar. The weight and curves of immense fruit, and the flat silhouettes of songbirds reside in a world invaded by the eerie lines and shapes of relentless human activity. Her latest works are inspired by the North Carolina Port of Wilmington and surrounding areas. Of this body of work Padilla says, "I was in awe when I first laid eyes on the vast collection of colorful shapes and structures, fenced in and protected. I was excited to get in and document this industrial landscape." To see more of Jenifer Padilla's work, please visit her website.