Raleigh Magazine dishes the 2025 Best Restaurants in Raleigh—20 top spots across tastes and budgets, including Best Overall, Best New and more.
Raleigh Magazine’s Best Restaurants
Raleigh Magazine reveals the best of the best restaurants in Raleigh catering to all palates, pockets and preferences, including Best Overall and Best New.
Royal Flush
Wondering which Raleigh bathrooms are simply a flush above the rest? Here, the best places to pop a squat atop the porcelain throne.
Taste Testing
Renowned restaurant guru Michael Lee launched his newest concept, M Test Kitchen, at Fenton—now taking reservations.
Bring It, Raleigh
A list of projects slated for Raleigh this year—from new RDU flights to restaurant openings to developments to anticipated happenings.
Fenton’s Fab Five
The highly anticipated development redrafts the mixed-use blueprint by putting food & bev first.
Just Roll With It
a name-your-price omakase experience not listed on the menu. A Japanese phrase that translates to, “I’ll leave it up to you,” omakase involves a sushi chef deciding what to serve based on both which fish are in season and their personal preferences.
Where the Chefs Eat
Best Restaurants is a loaded term, often eliciting the question “according to whom?” That’s exactly what we asked ourselves when …