LATE SHIFT ASHEVILLE’S OPTIONS FOR DARK-THIRTY DINING
PHOTO BY JOANNA SASSOS
PIE.ZAA
BY K AY WEST It’s 11 p.m., you’ve just left the concert, you’re running on empty, and you need a bit of fuel to get you home. No one zooms in tighter on the late-night food map than members of Asheville’s service industry, coming off a long shift and ready to belly up to a bar for a beer and a bite. Here are some of the pit stops on their radars. • Better late than ever is the menu plan at enduring downtown favorites Sovereign Remedies and Storm Rhum Bar. Both specialize in highbrow spins on lowbrow dishes, like Sovereign chef Bert Sheffield’s house-ground, foot-long hot dogs and Storm chef Jay Medford’s tempura cauliflower with chipotle yogurt, and gojuchang pork sliders with kimchi. • “I don’t like pizza,” said no one ever, especially not as the clock creeps toward midnight. From the city that never sleeps, PIE.ZAA on the South Slope boasts New Yawk-style pizza by the supersized slice (12 inches from tip to crust and 15 inches wide) or by the pie — only slightly smaller than a monstertruck tire. Or downsize (but still fill up) with a slice, full pie or chicken wings, tenders, fries and more from One Stop Kitchen at the Asheville Music Hall. Last call for award-winning wings and reverie-inducing • Wisconsin mac and cheese isn’t until midnight on weekends at
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