Best Fine Dining in Lake Lure

"Located right across from the two most popular busking corners in Asheville, this is one of our favorite spots to enjoy live street music while dining. Isa’s recently changed their concept to French cuisine, a point especially driven home when dining al fresco under their awning."

"Isa’s Bistro – serving popular American dishes with a Mediterranean influence, this downtown icon prints daily menus to highlight the best available local produce. We found the food to be creative, beautiful and tasty."

"Isa’s Bistro, located in the heart of downtown Asheville at One Battery Park Avenue, is a go-to spot for great cooking any time of the day. Sit in the gorgeous dining room or out o..."

"Family owned and operated for over 20 years, Jerusalem Café brings delightful, fresh, authentic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine to the area. The café features a Tapas, Brunch, Lunch, Dinner and a Dessert menu. The location downtown is convenient to many points of interest, and live entertainment is featured every Friday and Saturday night along with bellydancing."

"Rich colors adorn the dining room of this Middle Eastern restaurant, and a back room, known as "the tent," features low tables with pillow seating and exotic chandeliers. On Saturday nights, belly dancers entertain guests and a special menu is served in the tent Thursday-Saturday nights. Reasonable, tasty fare and inexpensive drinks add to the café's popularity."

"When some of the other downtown Asheville restaurants get slammed, it’s nice to sneak into Jerusalem Garden Cafe. The atmosphere is colorful, serene, and delicious. Jerusalem Garden Cafe specializes in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine."

"131 MAIN Restaurant Asheville is a refined New American-style restaurant located within the Biltmore Park Town Square mixed-use shopping center and community, offering daily lunch and dinner service in an upscale-casual setting. Diners can choose from elegant land and sea entrees such as double-cut pork chops, cedar plank salmon, Danish-style baby-back ribs, and Maryland-style crab cakes, served up alongside pasta favorites such as linguine limone and Southern-style choices such as shrimp and grits with Cajun Creole sauce and corn salsa. A variety of clever burgers and sandwiches are also available at lunch, ranging from sterling prime rib sandwiches with hot au jus to New England-style ultimate chili dogs with mustard, onions, and a deviled egg."

"Middle Eastern street food joint Baba Nahm is where chefs Brian and Laura Smith have focused their significant culinary energies since COVID-19 pressures forced the closure of their Biltmore Village restaurant Rezaz. A pre-pandemic downtown lunch staple, Laura pivoted the concept by switching to takeout only and turning the small seating area into a bakery where she puts her pastry chef background to good use creating the menu’s house-made pita and laffa breads, cookies, granola, and other items. A simple option that serves a pair or groups of four or eight is Baba’s Feast, a par-cooked take-home meal of roasted Cornish game hen stuffed with ground lamb, caramelized onions, and basmati rice accompanied by grilled broccolini with horseradish-herb zhoug, Persian chopped salad, and rich muhammara dip with vegetable crudite."

"Okay, The Gourmet Chip Company isn’t TECHNICALLY a dessert shop… but they have. such deliciously wonderful options for a sweet treat we just had to share. In addition to their creative savory flavors, they also offer dessert chips that feature their buttery sweet potato chips topped with delicious add-ons such as belgium chocolate shavings, house-made caramel sauce and even (if you’re feeling adventurous) bacon!"

"Enjoy a New Orleans inspired coffee date at Bebettes Beignets & Coffee. Their made to order beignets and pour your own New Orleans cafe au lait is a fun way to indulge your sweet side. We recommend sharing The Monster, a sweet trio of beignets with powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar and chocolate."

"This is a super cute place with a great concept and adorable people working there, but it’s very disorganized, leading to unnecessarily long waits."