Author: treestravels

Southern Pines finally got a Target (after 20 years of trying!) and with our Target shopping center came retail space for restaurants (yay!). I love a good burger, so I was excited to see that we were getting a Chargrilled Burger Bar (Habit). We signed up for the email list and began to count down […]

I love to cook, especially from celebrity chefs. I think it stems from eating out all the time as a child. I worked in the restaurant industry during and after college and got to experience the thrill and agony of cooking in a commercial kitchen. I have recently been working my way through Ina Garten […]

For date night, my husband and I visited the Bell Tree Tavern’s second location in Whispering Pines. We like to try all the new restaurants in town and it had taken us a bit to get to the Bell Tree in Whispering Pines because we already had a location very near to us in Southern […]

One of my favorite food cuisines is Asian and I was beyond excited to find out that the family that owns Thai Orchid was opening a new restaurant in Downtown Southern Pines. Side note-when we were looking at moving here we actually ate at this location when it was a tapas restaurant and that convinced […]

The race that began it all-The Cooper River Bridge Run-this was my first race and my first race-cation. I will always have a special place in my heart for this race and will write about my first race-cation in a future post, but this post is to celebrate the 2024 Cooper River Bridge Run. My […]

Kid Cashew, 1440 Ben Sawyer Blvd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464 My friends and I found this restaurant by saying “restaurants near me” in Siri. Luckily, it also had dairy free and gluten free options as my traveling companions have these particular food allergies. We arrived in Mount Pleasant the Friday before the Cooper River Bridge […]