Bonito Kitchen, inside The Hound cocktail lounge (a former Greyhound Bus terminal) is outstanding in terms of both the variety of menu items (especially for a relatively small menu) and for the quality, taste and innovativeness of the food. The Hound is a great cocktail lounge on its own, but thinking of the restaurant business providing its food service, Bonito Kitchen has to be one of the best new places to eat in Asheville. You order food at the bar where you order drinks at The Hound, they give you a number to put on the table and they bring your food and bus the table. The Hound was packed when we went early on a Saturday evening, presumably because it was a gorgeous summer day and they had a live band playing on the patio. Most of the customers were just having drinks on the patio and listening to the band. There was a queue to order drinks and/or food at the inside bar, but it moved pretty fast. We ordered cocktails and enjoyed the drinks and conversation while we waited for our food (which was timed about right). Service both for drinks and the food was good and efficient. We had a bowl of Japanese hurricane popcorn (with butter, wasabi peas, nori furikake, kakimochi and candied peanuts) to munch on with the cocktails, followed by patatas bravas. Often patatas bravas are like thick French fries, breaded and deep fried. But here they were roasted with the skin on and covered with what they call bravas sauce (good level of spiciness), as well as garlic aioli. For entrees we had "gringas" grilled quesadillas, with pastor pulled pork, two cheeses (including one called chihuahua cheese, which I've never heard of before), grilled pineapple and cilantro lime crema. The pineapple really made this dish stand out. We also had ono taegu chicken wings, which were nice and crispy with a sweet and fairly hot Korean-style honey gochujang glaze/sauce, accompanied by a sriracha ranch dipping sauce, which also had some nice kick. The real highlight of the entrees though was Moroccan b'stilla, which is Middle Eastern-spiced shredded chicken, toasted almonds and kale layered in very thin and flaky filo pastry with a subtle but tasty garnish of pomegranate honey, pistachios and cinnamon. Think savory baklava! On the side was an equally delicious Moroccan carrot salad with great spicing and golden raisins. I felt like I had found some little oasis in some desert in North Africa! And all of this was in one place here in Asheville. As I said, amazing. We can't wait to go back and try several other menu items. The menu will change seasonally. read more