There’s something beautifully irrational about driving two hours for dinner.
Yet every weekend, cars with license plates from Charlotte, Raleigh, Winston-Salem, and beyond line the streets near a mint-green brick building in Greensboro.
Machete has become North Carolina’s culinary pilgrimage site, drawing devoted food enthusiasts willing to burn gas and vacation days for what many whisper is the best pork tenderloin in the state.
The restaurant’s name suggests something edgy and perhaps dangerous, which is fitting because what they do to pork should probably be illegal in at least seven states…