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Test Your Knowledge on Iconic Raleigh Restaurants and Bars

Test Your Knowledge on Iconic Raleigh Restaurants and Bars

by | Aug 27, 2024 | Eat, September 2024

Despite new dining and drinking destinations aplenty, a plethora of OGs still hold a soft spot in our hearts—from iconic jazz clubs and hidden gems to hot spots from Hillsborough Street’s glory days. We take your brain down memory lane to test your smarts on some standout Raleigh restaurants and bars. Let the nostalgia commence! 

1. Gimme something good! Ryan Adams formed the first version of rock band Whiskeytown in 1994 at which Raleigh restaurant and makeshift music venue?

a.   The Comet Lounge
b.   The Brewery
c.   Sadlack’s Heroes 
d.   Berkeley Cafe 

2. Which fan-fave Hillsborough Street bar devastated locals when it shuttered—and never reopened as promised?
a.   East Village Grill 
b.   Pantana Bob’s
c.  The Rockford
d.   The Green Monkey

3. Here’s to Raleigh restaurant history! What was the first dining/drinking establishment to open on Glenwood South? 
a.    Hibernian Pub
b.   Cafe Helios
c.   Mellow Mushroom
d.   The Rockford

4. What buzzy dining destination originally opened almost a century ago as a grocery store before becoming the first to serve post-Prohibition beer locally? 
a.   42nd Street Oyster Bar  
b.   Clyde Cooper’s Barbecue
c.   Amedeo’s Italian Restaurant
d.   Berkeley Cafe

5. To the horror of live music lovers, Hillsborough Street’s iconic The Brewery was demolished in 2011. Which of these bands graced the space during its run? 
a.   Paramore 
b.   Panic! At The Disco
c.   Phish
d.   All of the above

6. What famous musician found fame after performing at jazz club Frog and Nightgown in the ’60s—then ended up living in Raleigh for over a decade while working for former Gov. Terry Sanford? 
a.   Betty Carter
b.   Carol Sloane
c.   Peggy Lee 
d.   Julie London

7. “I actually saw him read a book without pictures once!” At what local go-to were scenes from the 1988 rom-com Bull Durham filmed? 
a.   Players Retreat
b.   Winston’s Grille
c.   Piccola Italia 
d.   Mitch’s Tavern

8. He’s truly living the American dream. During a stop in NC earlier this year, what Raleigh spot did President Joe Biden nosh at with Gov. Roy Cooper? 
a.   Second Empire
b.   Char-Grill 
c.   Cook Out 
d.   A Place at the Table 

9. ~Feline~ fine! Which former live music club was housed in a DTR building boasting a mural of a cat sporting a blazer and a top hat? 
a.   Crowley’s
b.   The Rialto
c.   C. Grace
d.   Neptunes

Answers: 1. C; 2. A; 3. D; 4. A; 5. D; 6. B; 7. D; 8. C; 9. C

Slice, Slice, Baby!

Slice, Slice, Baby!

by | Feb 7, 2022 | Eat, Web Exclusive

February 8 is National Pizza Day—and these are the pies that have a pizza our hearts. And peep our Dine Listings for some “knead” to know deets on these top pie spots and more.

Poole’side Pies

Fayetteville Street District

Oakwood Pizza Box

Person Street District 

Trophy Brewing & Pizza

Warehouse District

Mellow Mushroom

Glenwood South District

V Pizza

Cary

Lilly’s Pizza

Five Points

June Foodie News

June Foodie News

by | Jun 19, 2017 | Eat, June 2017

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is coming to Raleigh’s Longview Shopping Center at 2026 New Bern Ave.  The 11-screen theater, bar and restaurant will have 660 seats and a beer hall with 36 local beers on tap. Alamo Drafthouse was started in Austin by film fans for film fans, and they say the Raleigh location will be the same way, introducing new films, directors and genres that would never play in the Triangle. The theater is expected to open by the end of 2017.

taste now has a second location in the Five Points neighborhood in the former Cave 1912 location in High Park Village.  Taste is part of the JMR Kitchens group, which  owns the Oak on Lake Boone Trail, more on N. West St. and taste on Medlin Drive.

Mellow Mushroom will open another Raleigh location at Brier Creek. The 6,400-plus-square-foot restaurant will be near the Meadows at Brier Creek apartments. No opening date yet.

House of Hops, a bottle shop and Shuckin’ Shack, an oyster bar, will be part of a new development at McNeill St. and Wake Forest Rd. near Mami Nora’s Rotisserie Chicken.

Posh Nosh Catering owner Coleen Speaks is opening Whitaker & Atlantic and Hummingbird at Dock 1053 at the corner of Whitaker Mill Road and Atlantic Ave. Whitaker & Atlantic will be a large private event space. Hummingbird will be a café and cocktail bar. Opening this fall.

Tyler Watt, the owner of Pharmacy Bottle & Beverage in Cary is planning to open Postmaster Restaurant & Bar at the corner of E. Cedar St. and North Walker St. this fall.  He describes it as “modern Southern American food”.

St. Roch Fine Oysters + Bar is now open on S. Wilmington St. in the former Joule Coffee space. The new restaurant offers oysters, clams and Carolina seafood with a New Orleans flair.

There’s a change with Dos Taquitos Xoco on Glenwood South; it’s not the food just the name and ownership. It will now be call Xoco with Niall Hanley as the sole owner

Bocci Trattoria & Pizzeria will open this month in the old Porter’s and McDaid’s space on Hillsborough St. The menu is  classic Italian fare with favorites such as Pork Saltimbocca, Risotto di Mare’ & Salmon Monaco with three styles of  pizza – New York style, Chicago Deep Dish & their very own Nonna’s Pizza. The space is redesigned to reflect an Old World ambiance reminiscent of the many trattorias throughout Tuscany. Bocci will be open seven day s a week  for lunch and dinner.