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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Mountain Xpress and WNC Magazine. Updated August 2026.
Nine Mile · West Asheville
Rastafarian cooking rerouted through a pasta menu, with coconut jerk sauce simmered into fire-roasted tomatoes and white wine.
Island Pan · East Asheville
A mother-and-son kitchen cooking jerk chicken, fried plantains, and an oxtail stewed with butter beans, tomatoes, and carrots that outsold everything else on opening weekend.
Cousins Cuban Cafe · Black Mountain
A Black Mountain Cuban cafe named in WNC Magazine's Global Feast survey of the twenty-five restaurants that satisfy the region's most diverse cravings. Order the Cuban sandwich.