Flight Savor Fare

Flight is proud to play a part (all puns intended) in bringing the Flat Rock Playhouse production of 12 Angry Men to the historic Henderson County Courthouse on Main Street. The recently renovated courthouse is the perfect setting for this play based on the 1954 telefilm starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb. On “lawyers [...]

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From left to right: Isaac Neill, Justin Cranford, me, Charlie Cranford and Tate Apodaca. After having three daughters who eat, shall we say, very carefully, it’s fun to take hungry boys to dinner. The conversation was appropriately wide- ranging, from working out to where to spend the 4th of July — “the most fun holiday [...]

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The Governor, Ms Beverly Eaves Perdue and her husband, Bob Perdue, came to the Western Governor’s Residence for a mountain weekend over Memorial Day. The evening began at Cam and Sally Boyd’s house with cocktails on the terrace overlooking the most magnificent mountain vista in Hendersonville. We then caravaned to Flight for an outrageous dinner. [...]

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for Bob Davis (on the walls at Flight) and Marilyn Bailey, local jeweler with national reputation. Rob outdid himself with savory platters of tomato salad, scallops, lamb chops — it just kept coming. Nan chose some red and white party wine to go with it all. Many still stayed for dinner! Marilyn Bailey Bob Davis, [...]

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April is here! Mike Phillips predicts one more snowfall, but still it is spring. The dafs are blooming, so are the cherry trees. If there is one more snow, we can just laugh at it. Flight is ready for Spring! The restaurant is freshly painted and the menu has been refreshed as well. May it [...]

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Have you ever been to a wine dinner at Flight? Great wine, great food and a fun way to meet some new people who also love great wine and great food! Sign up as soon as you can, though. Seats are limited. Flight Wine Dinner with Gary Wooton, the Owner/Winemaker of Croze and Smith Wooton [...]

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January, February and March are sleepy months. It’s a good thing, we all need some rest after the holidays. Do you notice how close Christmas follows Thanksgiving and then New Year’s Eve pops up and bumps you right over the edge if you aren’t careful. Didn’t Pope Gregory think this through while working on that [...]

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Renee and her mother, Vernice Bailey. Also, Marilyn Bailey’s mom, the famous local jeweler here in Hendersonville. Click here to see her jewels. The fam had come from the Southern Highlands Craft Guild where Marilyn’s jewelry was the best the show had to offer. But where’s the Dad? There’s the Dad! That’s Bob Bailey. The [...]

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When we, Nan and Don Jennings and Sam and Nancy Neill, went to Argentina, one of the wineries we visited in Mendoza, the Napa Valley of Argentina, was Mendel. It was beautiful in an old Italian kind of way. The tasting room was an old carriage house furnished simply with an antique pine table for [...]

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