The North Carolina Mountains Restaurants

You can still get traditional mountain food, served family-style, at inns around the region. Increasingly, though, mountain cooks are offering more-sophisticated fare. Asheville chefs, trained at leading culinary programs, are creating innovative dishes. At many places the emphasis is on "slow food"—made with locally grown, often organic, ingredients. You can find nearly every world cuisine somewhere in the region, from Thai to Jamaican to northern Indian.