Burger & Beer: $15 Burger and Half-Price Drafts

The French Burger is $15 and comes with a 6-ounce burger with caramelized onions, gruyère and comté cheeses, cornichons, whole grain mustard, and pommes frites, plus half-price draft beer from three rotating local taps.

Monday, October 12 at RendezVous. Grab a burger and a beer.

RendezVous is a French bistro in East Asheville on New Haw Creek Road, run by Michel Baudouin, who spent 20 years running Bouchon downtown. He grew up on a farm near France's Rhône Valley, and the menu is French comfort food made with local ingredients from places like Sunburst Trout Farms and City Bakery. Look for moules frites with four mussel preparations, escargots, raclette fondue, house pâtés and frites with herbes de Provence. It's in a converted church with a barn for outdoor dining, pétanque courts and a long list of French wines. Dinner runs nightly from 4:30.

Neighbors like skipping the downtown parking hunt, and regulars linger for a game of pétanque after dinner.

RendezVous

Asheville's food scene is mostly local, and this guide walks it neighborhood by neighborhood. Many of these spots post their daily specials, happy hours and events on Dig Local, so check a profile before you go. Downtown, Posana on Biltmore Avenue builds its menu around local farms, The Rhu on South Lexington Avenue is known for its cruffin, Old Europe Pastries has made Hungarian pastries since 1994 and now sits on Broadway, and Capella on 9 serves tapas on the roof of the AC Hotel. On the South Slope, Tiger Bay Cafe cooks Latin and West Indian food inside Ben's Tune Up, and the Funkatorium on Coxe Avenue pours sour beer. Haywood Road in West Asheville has Biscuit Head, Thai Pearl, Finest and Westville Pub. Merrimon Avenue in North Asheville has plant, Mountain Madre, Mother Ocean Seafood Market and 828 Family Pizzeria. In East Asheville, RendezVous serves French bistro food on New Haw Creek Road, and Rocky's Hot Chicken Shack fries Nashville-style hot chicken on Patton Avenue and in Arden.

Burger & Beer: $15 Burger and Half-Price Drafts

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