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Bobby's Idle Hour Tavern, a Music Row watering hole at the center of Nashville's latest preservation vs. progress debate, will serve its last beer at its longtime home on Jan. 12.

But the decades-old bar may not be gone for good, according to a Facebook post announcing the closure date. The post says the bar will “be resurfacing as soon as we can in a new location,” although it doesn't include specifics on when or where the reopening will occur.

Along with several other neighboring buildings,…

Asheville’s Burial Beer Company is preparing to debut at Raleigh's Transfer Co. Food Hall.

On Saturday, beginning at 2 p.m., the space will share the story of Burial Beer Co. and its complete journey through its art, products, and mantra about life and death.

Inside, visitors can sample some of Burial’s rarest beers on draft and in package, while viewing art by David Paul Seymour – the man behind the brewery’s aesthetics.

“It’s something unique and special to the Raleigh area, and…

A Dayton-area brewery will open its new location this month.

Eudora Brewing Company will start operations Jan. 11 in its new location at 3022 Wilmington Pike in Kettering. The brewery's new location is 20,000 square feet, roughly six times larger than its previous location at 4716 Wilmington Pike.

The expanded taproom will offer 18 taps with a variety of both new and classic Eudora beers, along with craft root beer and nitro cold brew coffee from Dayton-based Twisted River Coffee Roasters, according…

Kraft Heinz announced Friday that it had completed its acquisition of Primal Nutrition LLC, makers of Primal Kitchen branded products. The deal was previously announced in November.

Primal Kitchen will be slotted under Springboard, Kraft Heinz's platform created to partner with founders and brands that will “disrupt the food industry.” Primal Nutrition will continue to operate as an autonomous company by its current leadership team and will keep its headquarters in Oxnard, Calif.

“Primal Kitchen…

A Texas chef has moved to Cincinnati to open a new concept that will combine wine, cheese and whole-hog butchery into a Napa-inspired tasting room in O'Bryonville.

Dallas native Eric Salome is opening Rinds, Wines & Swines at 1979 Madison Road in O'Bryonville. His goal is to open by March.

As the name implies, Rinds, Wines & Swines will offer a tasting room experience inspired by estate wineries in California's Napa Valley wine country. The establishment will offer a variety of wines by the glass…

The Salt Line, chef Kyle Bailey’s popular seafood eatery and bar that popped up next to Nationals Park in 2017, will open a second location next year in Ballston.

The Long Shot Hospitality venture will be an anchor tenant of the final phase of The Shooshan Co. and Brandywine Realty Trust’s Liberty Center development at 4040 Wilson Blvd. The new Salt Line location will be about the same size as its Navy Yard counterpart, with room for 100 inside and another 100 outside in good weather.

Long…

The old Nike Missile Command Center in Collier Township will be occupied once again. But instead of launching missiles, the building will instead be used for brewing beer.

The old command center will become the new main production facility for Pittsburgh-based Grist House Craft Brewery. The 55,000-square foot space will host a large taproom, retail area and an extensive barrel-aging program.

In a press release, the brewery said they would continue to operate at their location in Millvale. The brewery…

A popular Louisville food truck will open a brick-and-mortar location in downtown Louisville this spring.

Melissa Ingram and Sam Bracken, owners of Celtic Pig BBQ food truck, confirmed their plans to launch a physical location on Friday.

Ingram and Bracken launched the Celtic Pig food truck about four years ago after they built what they call a “steampunk” smoker out of odds and ends for backyard barbecues. That morphed into the mobile business.

“It just went gangbusters,” Ingram said. “We’ve…

A Sarasota developer is proposing a new hotel and restaurant in Lakewood Ranch Town Center.

Floridays Development Co. has filed plans with the Southwest Florida Water Management District for a 118-room, five-story hotel and 7,000-square-foot restaurant near the intersection of Resource Way and Exchange Way, with frontage along Interstate 75.

The 4.55-acre site is next to existing hotels including the Fairfied Inn & Suits by Marriott Sarasota and the Hyatt Place Sarsota/Lakewood Ranch.

An executive…