Tiffany,
The lack of a grocery downtown has been widespread complaint as more people move there. A downtown grocery - a real one, not just a glorified convenience store - has become the Holy Grail of downtown boosters. But I don’t see it happening soon. Most grocery stores say they need a lot of space, and they need the parking, etc. to drum up the traffic to pay for the location. I have a hunch that a more realistic solution would be the kind of convenience stores such as the ones you see in larger cities. In Brooklyn, my friend lives around the corner and across the street from a great deli. It’s a drug store, a wine shop, a newsstand and a small grocery rolled into one. They have German chocolate and Italian gelato and California Zinfandels. They have newspapers. They have milk and half and half and butter. It’s unquestionably expensive, but in a pinch, when you run out of something like sugar in the middle of baking a cake, it works. But I suspect we just don’t have the concentration of people living downtown to support those stores yet.

Laura Giovanelli on 07/02/2008 (11:35 am)

I think there should be an affordable grocery store downtown. Sure Kingz has opened and some of their things are affordable, and the Farmer’s Market is wonderful, but I don’t want to take a bus just to buy groceries.

Tiffany on 06/30/2008 (4:23 pm)

Winston,
let’s talk downtown eats,where is everyone.
What do you like downtown?
What do you not like downtown?
What would you like to eat downtown?
What is there to much of,or not enough of?
I would love to know what you think Winston!
pig daddy

pig daddy on 04/04/2008 (10:25 am)

Linda H,
What are some of your yummy choices in winston that you like best,and what is it
that makes them yummy?
pig daddy

pig daddy on 03/25/2008 (2:43 pm)

Be sure to e-mail me when you can divulge more, Pig Daddy!

Laura Giovanelli on 03/24/2008 (5:18 pm)

Laura,yes i do have alot of family history in downtown, and can’t wait to make more of it.Would like to tell you more about our project,but not at liberty at this time.Coming very soon,and would love to tell you more at that time.
Looking forward to having something very
special for downtown Winston-Salem.
Hope everyone had a great Easter & good eats.  pig daddy

pig daddy on 03/24/2008 (12:02 pm)

The new blog sounds great, count me in! I’ve never “blogged” before, so I guess that makes me a blog virgin!
Since we are renovating, we have no kitchen and are eating out a lot! There are some yummy choices here in W-S.

Linda H on 03/23/2008 (12:11 pm)

Pig Daddy, you have a lot of history here! Can you tell us more about your project? Does it involve BBQ...or perhaps bacon? Both?

Laura Giovanelli on 03/20/2008 (12:49 pm)

Good Job,
Thanks for giving a outlet for great food info. I have a lot of family history in downtown Winston-Salem eating houses, from
Biddy’s in the 1930s to the famous
Toddle House, my father & gradfather having
a meat market in the old city market downtown, & my grandmother feeding city workers out of her home in the 1930s & ‘40s, to myself with a restaurant project
opening in Downtown Winston-Salem soon.
It’s really good to watch downtown come alive after being asleep for so many years. WAKE UP WINSTON, IT"S TIME TO EAT!
Thanks, Pig Daddy

pig daddy on 03/20/2008 (9:19 am)