Special Advertising Section Doubling down at Double Oaks AUGUST 2022 FOOD + DRINK GUIDE
But Double Oaks has slowly been building up a culi nary program that is gaining steam amongst Greens boro’s in-the-know foodie scene.
It turns out, the pizzas were the right bridge. During the early days of the pandemic, they started doing takeout pizzas and wine, which was a huge hit espe cially in the Westerwood neighborhood where Double Oaks is nestled. Once it was safe enough to allow out door dining, they utilized the generous backyard space to start doing table service and building up a menu. Thus, the food program was born. They went from two employees at the beginning of the pandemic, to a crew of fourteen between the hotel and restaurant today.Wine Wednesdays are still hap pening, and they’re more popular than ever. If you show up on a fair-weather Wednesday, you’ll find one of the liveliest jazz scenes in the city, and you can hear the music beckoning as you walk up the drive way into the backyard. Attendance has regularly hit 150 plus, and the open jazz session includes any where from five to sometimes 15 or more musicians. The menu still includes pizzas, but now also wings with a killer sauce called Bee Sting created by brothers Jared and Dane Hugg of Hugg the Chefs. For the past year, Double Oaks has added more days of public restaurant service, now serving din ner on Thursday and Friday nights. Their Sunday brunch features goods from other local small busi nesses like Black Magnolia South ern Patisserie and Borough Coffee.
Owners James and Amanda Keith attribute the growth, surprisingly, to COVID. Before the pandemic, their regular Wine Wednes days had already become a happening spot for great live jazz and drinks in the beautiful backyard garden. They’d started serving pizzas, including a unique weekly special pizza, with punny names like “The Bleu Steel” and “The Brussel Crowe.”
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f you know Double Oaks at all, you might know it as a quaint historic bed & breakfast sitting prominently at the entrance to the Westerwood neighborhood off of North Mendenhall and Friendly. For being such a stately mansion, what’s going on there largely stays just below the radar, as they don’t do a lot of promotion.
If you’re looking for a different kind of going out experience, one that feels more like home in all the best ways, Double Oaks might just be your new favorite spot.
Dinner nights at Double Oaks are a great counterpoint to Wine Wednesdays. Diners enjoy table service and a more extensive menu and beverage choices, though a small selection of pizzas are always available. Chef Jared Hugg conjures up new dinner specials each week as well, to keep things interesting.
“When we bought the place, it was a private home, and we thought such a grand home ought to be opened up as a place for the public to gather and relax. Double Oaks is one of Greensboro’s grand historic homes, so everything we do here is not only focused on visitors to Greensboro, but also on giving locals opportunities to come hang out and imbue the place with local flavor. Good food and drinks tend to be the best way to draw people in.”
“We’re always looking for new ways to bring the community in,” he continues.
“Our dinner nights are one of the best-kept secrets in Greensboro,” James says. Amanda jumps in: “Where else in town can you have an intimate, gourmet meal under twinkle lights in a place that feels like the Secret Garden? It’s pretty magical.”
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hef Tim Grandinetti’s culinary skills brought him around the world. So it makes sense that he’d settle down in a historic home on the edge of downtown Winston-Salem. Inside what was once the Bahnson House, a 1920s mansion on the National Register of Historic Places, diners can find white-linen elegance in one of the many well-appointed rooms, al fresco dining on a spacious and breezy patio, or a casual experience in the Library Bar, one of the great barrooms in the Triad. Grandinetti and crew create Southern fare “in cadence with Mother Nature,” which means a menu that changes frequently but with consistent quality and creativity. House favorites will always remain, like the Dr. Brownstone’s BBQ Tower, which must be seen to be believed.
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