And All Triad locations of Total Wine More will be offering free tastes of sweet red and whites all weekend long..

Its so cold out there that you need a really good excuse to leave the house. Fortunately, the Downtown Winston- Salem Partnership.

First off, all you hungry, hungry hippos, comes news of new food in the Triad. The Carnival Menu.

Winter's back has been broken, and the Triad culinary scene awakens from a short, post-holiday slumber..

For starters, now that no-smoking rules have taken effect, know that you can report infractions by going to www.smokefree. nc.gov..

Bernardin served as dean of the companys Hamburger University, and helped develop the Filet-O-Fish, the signature fries and the line of pies..

The news starts off with a fond farewell to Peter Hamilton,.

The subject of these tastings is bubbly - appropriate this time of year as we prepare for a Champagne toast.

So here we are, just a few days before your Christmas goose is officially cooked, and I'll be frank: I have not yet had my fill of Christmas cookies..

Here's something that should make the nation's largest pork-producing state.

Trouble's brewing within the Burger King corporate structure, as store owners say 99-cent sales of the BK Double actually cost them money. But the corporate parent says if franchisees stop selling the cheeseburger, it will affect their ability to buy goods on credit. And still they dance...

Hello all, and welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of Served which, due to the nature of the holiday, means that most food-related events take place in private homes. So you're pretty much on your own.

Perhaps youve noticed that Burger King has shut down all of its locations for remodeling. The redesign, which a company Chairman and CEO John Chidsey says will be more contemporary, edgy, futuristic, will feature rotating red flame chandeliers and TV-screen menus.

Glad you asked - in fact there are quite a lot of noteworthy news items and events that are dropping, as the kids say, this week..

Moving on, the slate of foodie events this week is as thin as- as thins as a slice of chateaubriand, as a matter of fact..

In keeping with a long-held policy at YES! Weekly, I guarantee that everyone who sends me free food gets a mention here in Amuse Bouche - though I do not guarantee that I will endorse your product..

No time for jokes people. Big things a-brewin'. Madison Park Caf%u9829n Greensboro touts new shipments of tuna, veal skirt steaks, oysters and frog legs available while supplies last.

Dig it: This month's Men's Health magazine ranked the 100 most fast-food-addicted cities in the US, and, remarkably, the Triad fared pretty well. While Charlotte grabbed the No. 3 spot, Raleigh ranked No. 5 and Durham landed at No. 20

It seems that Starbucks is succumbing to the gastronomic juggernaut that is McDonald's. In the spring, Ray Kroc's Folly took aim at the Buck's latte-sipping clientele by turning every McDonald's into a McCafe offering a cheaper - and, incidentally, grossly inferior - product.

I have received anecdotal over the last several months from area restaurateurs who say they are not exactly getting creamed in this stagnant economy, but that their numbers are off from those heady days of 2006-'07. But you know who has made a killing.