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Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Restaurant Road Trip: Neighborhood Kombuchery
MORGANTOWN, (WBOY) — Spring is here and as it continues to warm up, you may be thirsty for a refreshing drink. If so, one Morgantown business can keep you guessing with its quenching and creative kombucha flavors. If you've ever wondered what blue milk tastes like in Star Wars, the Neighborhood Kombuchery in Morgantown has taken a crack at it for you to try. If you're not familiar with kombucha, it's 'a fermented tea in its short form. And, we take a sweet tea, and we add a culture to it, a SCOBY—a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast—and we let that ferment until we deem it tastes good,' according to brewer Cody Woodring. Founded in 2019 by Carissa Herman and her husband Andrew Rhodes, the Neighborhood Kombuchery has quickly expanded to local businesses and now distributes all over the state and even into Pennsylvania and Maryland. At the Kombuchery, you can opt to get flavors on tap or canned, and for special flavors like blue milk, it is only available on tap during the week of May 4, known by Star Wars fans as 'May the Fourth be with You.' Restaurant Road Trip: Mora Bakery Inspired by a former brewery's own blue milk beer, the Kombuchery got to work on figuring out how to make the unique flavor. 'So, we don't have 'Banthas,' but we have bananas, and bananas when they are not quite as ripe…have more carbohydrates in them and starches, which are opaque, so we are basically juicing bananas and throwing them in there,' Woodring said. For the blue pop of color, they use blue spirulina, a natural dye. And just like with its blue milk flavor, the Kombuchery uses natural dyes and ingredients to flavor its drinks. 'Usually when we're flavoring, if we're infusing like a dry herb we let it sit for a day or two to kind of mix into the things. This one is a nice one to let sit for a bit so the pulp from the banana settles out before we package it up and carbonate it,' Woodring said. 12 News's Barbara Ron tasted the unique flavor, and said that 'you can taste the bananas, but it's not, like, annoying and sweet like in a banana bread or something. It's light.' The Neighborhood Kombuchery is located at 119 Pleasant St. in Morgantown and is open from 3-7 p.m. on Fridays. On Saturdays, you can find them at the Morgantown Farmers Market. For more information, you can visit here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Restaurant Road Trip: Mora Bakery
ELKINS, (WBOY) — If you're looking for the perfect place for some dulces internacionales—or international sweets—Mora Bakery is the way to go. Mora Bakery of Elkins is bringing you the love of homemade sweets with an international twist, as mother-and-daughter duo Neyla and Vanesa Mora opened the bakery to bring the community something new. The family's love for baking started when Vanesa was only 15, when her mother Neyla made her a birthday cake. Since then, the idea of a storefront has always been a dream of theirs. 12 News spoke with Vanesa about their favorite aspect of owning a bakery. 'Creating every single item, every time we make a new cookie and stuff like that, is really exciting, and we just love to be able to come up with ideas and create. It is just really nice to be able to share something that we love with the community,' said Mora. Restaurant Road Trip: Cafe Oliverio Mora Bakery features fresh breads and pastries made daily, alongside a variety of different milkshake flavors, like chocolate-covered strawberries and dulce de leche. Vanesa even took inspiration from her son and created a variety of different fruit drinks made from fresh fruits like pineapple, passion fruit, and peaches without any added sugar. Mora also spoke with 12 News on some of the fan-favorite items within the bakery. 'We do have the tres leches as one of our biggest cakes. It is so moist, it's a really rich cake. We also have our famous cookies. They're filled cookies. We do have pastries, we have pepperoni rolls, we do, like, ham and cheese. We try to bring different things every week,' said Mora. You can also find Argentine cookies and pastries at Mora Bakery, alongside custom cakes, cupcakes, and more. For those who are gluten-free, they've even got some options for you, too. Mora Bakery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and is located at 102 2nd Street in Elkins. You can keep up with the bakery through its Facebook page. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
