Restaurants in Raleigh-Durham + Central North Carolina

Chic steak house

Housed in a former fish market, this restaurant has trained many of the South’s top toques. The current chef, Bill Smith, is an expert at dishes with

Sophisticated southern

Nouvelle Chinese hot spot

Cozy tapas stop

A modern take on a traditional Chinese noodle house.

The kitchen feeds a loyal following with breakfasts of country ham and Southern biscuits (snag a table on the sunny front porch).

French-Italian bistro in a former warehouse

Fifties lunch counter-turned-stylish diner and martini bar. This restaurant pays tribute to Poole's Luncheonette, a downtown Raleigh landmark that ope

Though the building’s a flyspeck, the long lines of cars at the drive-through window testify to the restaurant’s celebrated sweet tea and fried chicke

Cozy Turkish mezze joint

North Carolina’s legendary pit master Ed Mitchell presides over this airy restaurant in a former meatpacking warehouse. (White tablecloth at a ’cue jo