Restaurants
The State of the Warehouse District
By day, the warehouse district of Downtown Raleigh is quiet and sleepy. By night, it wakes up and comes to life, exploding on the weekends. This nightlife hotspot has seen some problems in the past, but with a convention center only a few steps away, why can’t it enjoy some traffic just as Fayetteville St. [...]
Opening Date For Boylan Bridge Brewpub
I need to give props to a reader, Kyle, for the tip. I’m pretty excited about this one.
The Boylan Bridge Brewpub will open on AUGUST 25, 2008. That’s right, in 53 drinking days we will serve our first beer. (43 drinking days if you skip Sunday, 35 drinking days if you don’t drink on the [...]
Summer Restaurant Wave
This follows up the “Winter Restaurant Wave” written about 7 months ago. Here is, I hope, a complete list of new openings in downtown. Fill in the blanks for me and let’s get them all.
The Present
Champa Cafe opened about 3 months ago and is serving lunch, Mon-Fri from 11-6. They are located at the corner [...]
No Ketchup Allowed At The Roast Grill
While Fayetteville St. is going through its re-birth and as Glenwood South grows right before our eyes, The Roast Grill has seen it all and is still doing what they do best. It has been sitting at its location at 7 South West St. since 1940 and has been offering burnt hot dogs to all [...]
Peace China Hopefully Opening Soon
It has been awhile since I last checked up on Peace China over in Seaboard Station. The once empty space now only needs the food to finish it off. The signs are up on the building and a visual menu is displayed inside. The website for the shops at Seaboard says it is coming soon. [...]
Too bad they can’t just keep the facades intact and just build around them.... (