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Featured Restaurant News

• The homeowners of Raleigh’s common Oakwood Pizza Box, Anthony and Brett Guerra, have opened St. Pierre Wine Shop and Bar at Raleigh Iron Works. St. Pierre is a cultured but snug wine store and bar with ample seating, laid-back music and house for afternoon wine sipping that transitions seamlessly into relaxed night gatherings. The Guerras are additionally utilizing the opening to assist a youthful hospitality skilled develop into a enterprise proprietor. Joining the staff as a companion is Scott Hardiman, who beforehand labored at The Umstead Hotel and Spa as a sommelier and was the opening basic supervisor at East End Bistrot. This 12 months has been a giant 12 months for the Guerras who opened Tutti Pizza in Charleston and lately opened a carry-out solely location known as Capital Pizza Box lower than a half mile from St. Pierre. And don’t neglect, quickly the meals served at St. Pierre would be the work of Kinston, N.C. chef Vivian Howard. Follow along on Instagram here.

Wake County Restaurant News

• Raleigh Magazine reported this week that common Durham wood-fired pizza spot Pizzeria Toro will open a location in downtown Raleigh’s Seaboard Station in a shared house with the soon-to-open The Common Market. Look for them to open by subsequent summer time. Visit Pizzeria Toro here.

• Patrick Shanahan, finest identified for Watts & Ward cocktail bar and the lately opened Peregrine, introduced his latest enterprise this week – Capulet Cocktail Club. The Italian-inspired cocktail vacation spot will open in The Exchange at Midtown close to Peregrine (1000 Social Street, Suite 110). Look for them to open this fall. Might be best to follow their progress on Instagram here.

• And talking of Peregrine, they introduced this week that they’re launching Sunday Brunch service starting September twenty first. Make plans to affix chef Saif Rahman and Patrick Shanahan from 11 a.m. to three p.m. Reservations are actually obtainable on OpenTable. Visit Peregrine here.

• It’s all within the identify. At least now. We realized this week that Foxcroft Wine Co. in North Hills has made a slight tweak in its identify to develop into Foxcroft Food & Wine, higher reflecting their full-service restaurant expertise in addition to wine. Visit them here.

• And talking of wine, Raleigh Downtown shared this week that Raleigh’s first romance bookstore and wine bar, based by Susannah Baird, is opening in downtown this fall. Bright Side Books & Wine will debut on the bottom ground of the Platform Apartments (600 W Cabarrus Street). Guests can stay up for themed e-book golf equipment, trivia nights, creator occasions, and different group gatherings — all paired with curated wine alternatives and snack packing containers. Check them out here.

• Staying in downtown Raleigh, Raleigh Magazine dropped some thrilling espresso information on us this week. Left Hook Coffee can be leaving its house at Gussie’s on the finish of October to give attention to opening their brick-and-mortar in East Raleigh. The culminating nice information is we’ll quickly have a brand new espresso spot AND Gussie’s will then be taking on the espresso counter after a quick pause. According to the journal, co-owner Katie O’Kane says visitors can anticipate the identical “new version of an old idea” the neighborhood bar is understood for, plus their favourite breakfast objects popping out of Gussie’s kitchen…and a few new objects as properly. Keep up with Gussie’s here and Left Hook here. ⁠

• The News & Observer reported this week that Cabo Mexican Cuisine is coming to Brier Creek Commons quickly. I used to be unable to search out a web-based presence exterior of the Brier Creek Instagram post.

• And down in Holly Springs, Thanks a Latte – Coffee & Gift Boutique is transferring. Their final day at their present handle was this previous Tuesday. Look for them to open of their new location at 161 Oakview Commons, Suite 104, the place they’ll have their re-opening celebration on Monday, September fifteenth. And a reminder, the Angier location is enterprise as common. Visit them on Facebook here.  

• My buddy Bates Battaglia shared with me the information that his bar, Lucky B’s, is celebrating 20 years as Glenwood South’s favourite Dive Bar! Looks like they’ll have an anniversary social gathering on THIS Saturday, September thirteenth. Stay tuned for particulars. Visit B’s here.

Durham, Orange & Chatham Restaurant News

• Over in Durham, one in all our readers up to date us that KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot within the New Hope Commons Shopping Center (5454 New Hope Commons Dr.) has opened. They are identified for offering a novel, hands-on, all-you-can-eat expertise that merges conventional Asian scorching pot with Korean BBQ flavors. They even have a location on Capital Blvd. in Raleigh. Check them out here.

• We additionally realized this week that Krill Restaurant at 506 Ramseur St. in Durham has closed…however making means for a brand new idea known as Nerra Dining that includes native contemporary seafood, a bar and provisions. Look for them to open later this month. Stay in touch with them here.

• Carrie Brogren, founding father of Chapel Hill Carrboro Foodies group on Facebook, shared that Kinya, a ramen and sushi restaurant, is coming to Durham’s Southpoint space at 202 WNC 54 Hwy. Suite 506. Looks like this can be their first North Carolina location. Follow them on Instagram here.

Closings

• Triangle Business Journal shared this week that after 5 and a half years, Moe’s Original BBQ, a barbecue chain in west Durham subsequent to Vin Rouge, is closing. Today, Friday, Sept. twelfth, is their final day of operation.

Food Trucks

• The closing Durham Central Park Food Truck Rodeo of 2025 can be on Sunday, November 2. It will run from 12 midday till 4 p.m. that includes over 50+ meals vans with delicacies from everywhere in the world making it the final word Sunday Funday in Durham Central Park (501 Foster Street)! Get all the details here.

• Looking to search out your favourite meals truck (or stalking them and easily don’t need to need to admit it)? We perceive. Find them on Street Food Finder here.

Events

• For the month of September, Little Rey’s newest taco collaboration is with Dave Ellis from Figulina. Available simply in September, cease by to attempt a braised chuck taco with onion sugo, ramp salsa verde and crispy shallots. All proceeds profit Now Serving NC. Visit Little Rey’s here.

• On Saturday, September twentieth from 1 – 5 p.m., Lafayette Village in North Raleigh will maintain their Oktoberfest, a German-inspired pageant full of fall brews, scrumptious German delicacies, stay music, purchasing, and loads of enjoyable all through the Village. And maybe better of all, the day will characteristic their annual Wiener Dog races. Get all the details here.

• The inaugural Salt & Smoke & Sound Festival can be held Saturday, October 18th at Blackwood Farm Park between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The thrilling new group occasion merges collectively two beloved festivals–Acme’s Salt & Smoke and Sonark Media’s Harvest Festival–right into a celebration of meals, tradition, and music in a welcoming, family-friendly environment. Food can be supplied by Acme’s Kevin Callaghan and a staff of native cooks and meals vans providing all kinds of dishes and eating choices. The pageant will characteristic craft beers, curated drinks, and different fascinating spirit-free choices. All food and drinks can be obtainable for buy and isn’t included within the value of pageant entry. Tickets are on sale now.

• Tickets are actually on sale for 2025 Chefs for Change Gala & Live Auction, the annual fundraiser for Families Moving Forward, Durham’s main emergency shelter for households with kids. The occasion will happen on Nov. 6, 2025 at The Cookery in Durham. This unparallelled culinary occasion will characteristic a multi-course culinary expertise ready by a few of North Carolina’s most acclaimed cooks, together with Matt Kelly of Nanas Rockwood, Vin Rouge, Mateo, Mothers & Sons and Dino’s Pizza; Gray Brooks of Pizzeria Toro; Aaron Benjamin of Gocciolina; and Michael Lee of M Sushi, M Tempura, M Kokko, M Pocha and M Izakaya. Chef Chris McLaurin of Lutra Cafe and Bakery can be offering dessert. Secure your tickets now.

Food Bank Corner

• It’s no exaggeration to say that North Carolina is within the grip of a starvation disaster. More than 1.6 million of our neighbors — 1 out of each 5 kids — don’t know the place their subsequent meal would possibly come from. That’s what makes the information of federal funding cuts such a blow, and why it’s extra essential than ever for our group to tug collectively. Existing federal funding adjustments: The elimination of LFPA, a program that permit meals banks like us purchase contemporary produce from native small farms; Reductions to TEFAP, a program to supply emergency meals for households; Funding loss equal to 11.8 million meals that kids, households, and seniors in our group want. Upcoming federal funding adjustments to SNAP: 375,000 North Carolinians may lose meals help, together with 46,000 veterans; “Cost-sharing” shift of $280 million from federal authorities to North Carolina state and native governments; Increased paperwork necessities to qualify. But a present to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina at Raleigh Branch is a straightforward, efficient means so that you can assist meet the instant want. Every $10 is enough for 50 meals, so your gift quickly adds up to a big impact!

Featured Restaurant News

• Raleigh Downtown shared with us that JP’s Pastry, North Carolina’s first licensed gluten-free pastry firm, is now open seven days every week in Midtown Raleigh at 2310 Bale Street. If the identify sounds acquainted, you’ve possible noticed their treats at Whole Foods, Neomonde, and lately Beasley’s Chicken + Honey, simply to call a number of. Expect decadent desserts, cupcakes, brownies, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and whoopie pies to savory favorites like contemporary breads, Hawaiian rolls, challah, biscuits, pot pies, pastas, pizza and a lot extra. Congrats to founder Joe Parker! Visit them here.

Wake County Restaurant News

• And talking of Midtown, the News & Observer reported that Dave’s Hot Chicken opens TODAY, Friday, September fifth within the former dwelling of BB’s Chicken close to Wegman’s and Trader Joe’s. Your rooster could be ready with seven totally different warmth ranges. How scorching? The hottest, Reaper, comes with its personal waiver as a result of it’s simply that spicy. Bring it! They even have areas in Wake Forest and Holly Springs. Visit them here.

• In downtown Raleigh, Raleigh Magazine knowledgeable us this week that the long-empty former Royale house in City Market will quickly be dwelling to Kokoro Ramen & Izakaya from the oldsters behind Pinehurst/Southern Pines’ beloved Neko Thai & Sushi. Kokoro will convey izakaya vibes and ramen bowls to the east finish of downtown. Look for them to open subsequent Spring. Not a lot up on the net at this level, finest to test in with their sister concept here.

• Staying in downtown, the Triangle Business Journal revealed this week that the Omni Hotel deliberate for Downtown Raleigh will embrace Bob’s Steak & Chop House, a fixture at various Omni inns throughout the nation. Founded in Dallas in 1993, they now have a number of areas in Texas, in addition to areas in Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arizona. Look for them to open in 2028. Go ahead and start getting familiar with them here.

• One extra thrilling replace in downtown Raleigh. We first informed you about this in August, 2024 – however Raleigh Magazine shared a number of extra particulars this week about Jubala’s fourth location which can open quickly within the Pendo constructing at 301 Hillsborough Street. The homeowners introduced that they are going to be opening a cocktail bar dubbed Bar Marigold inside this location. The bar program, led by longtime bev director Kylen Hamlin, will characteristic each basic and new cocktails, coffee-infused drinks (together with espresso martinis, natch), and mocktails—plus night meals and desserts in accordance with the journal. Until now we have an open date, visit Jubala here.

• Just exterior of downtown Raleigh within the Iron Works improvement, Raleigh Magazine shared a high-profile collaboration presently unfolding. Renowned chef, TV host, creator and restaurateur Vivian Howard can be offering the meals for Anthony Guerra’s (proprietor of beloved Oakwood Pizza Box and Capital Pizza Box) soon-to-open St. Pierre Wine Shop + Bar. Howard and her staff will ship the meals, then practice them on the right way to plate it. Stay tuned for the menu and St. Pierre’s official opening date. She additionally hinted that this can be a strategy to “tip her toe” into the Triangle market…are you considering which means what I hope it means?!?

• Over in Cary, Triangle Business Journal reported that the previous Red Lobster in Cary will bear a renovation because it transitions to Umi Sushi. The constructing is at 1801 Walnut Street subsequent to Olive Garden and Chick-fil-A close to the busy Crossroads Plaza purchasing heart. This joins a “trend” of older ideas giving strategy to newer ideas – La Buena Vida took over the previous Red Lobster in Durham; Tacos Number Juan transferring right into a former Wendy’s; Mezcalito transferring into the previous On the Border additionally in Cary; and Azami Ramen & Sushi going into the previous PDQ in Cary.

• Down in Fuquay-Varina, the Fuquay-Varina Chamber of Commerce shared the information that Nil’s Mediterranean Cuisine opened their second location this week in downtown Angier at 16 North Broad Street East. Visit Nil’s here.

• Also in Fuquay-Varina, Brus on Main is formally rebranding to Truman’s Smokehouse & Kitchen. If you had been/are an enormous fan of Brus, don’t fear—their similar superb meals and drinks you realize and love aren’t going anyplace. In reality, they’re increasing the menu with much more selfmade favorites that’ll have you ever coming again for extra. Might be best to follow their progress on their Facebook page here.

• My buddy Bates Battaglia shared with me the information that his bar, Lucky B’s, is celebrating 20 years as Glenwood South’s favourite Dive Bar! Looks like they’ll have an anniversary social gathering on Saturday, September thirteenth. Stay tuned for particulars. Visit B’s here.

• And equally spectacular, my associates over at Fratelli’s Deli within the Sweetwater Town Center Apex off of Hwy. 64 is popping one! Join them on Wednesday, September tenth as they have a good time with all their prospects that cease by. Visit Fratelli’s here.

Durham, Orange & Chatham Restaurant News

• Chapelboro.com reported on Wednesday that two years and two months after a hearth destroyed the inside of Med Deli in Chapel Hill, the enterprise will welcome again prospects to in-person eating subsequent week. Despite a litany of delays and missed goal dates, the 410 West Franklin Street enterprise, which has been serving the Chapel Hill group for over 30 years, will reopen for dinner hours beginning on Tuesday, September ninth. In anticipation of subsequent week, visit Med Deli here.

• I’m attempting to recollect what I used to be doing as a senior in faculty, but it surely definitely wasn’t as thrilling nor as adventurous as UNC basketball stud Seth Trimble. The senior introduced this week that he has bought the Chapel Hill location of Ben & Jerry’s situated at 102 West Franklin Street proper within the coronary heart of downtown Chapel Hill. He bought it from long-time proprietor (who began scooping ice cream whereas an undergrad at UNC) Antonio McBroom. Visit Ben & Jerry’s here.

• In Durham, the Indy reported that Lutra Cafe and Bakery, the favored Durham-based bakery identified for its candy and savory buns, will host a weekly Sunday brunch at Durham’s Cheeni restaurant. The brunch pop-up will give diners an opportunity to style Lutra’s expanded cafe menu months earlier than chef-owner Chris McLaurin opens Lutra’s counter-service restaurant at American Tobacco Campus by the tip of 2025. Sunday brunch can be supplied from 8-11 a.m. The brunch menu contains the candy and savory buns, breakfast sandwich, biscuits and gravy, bread pudding, granola bowl, 100-layer hash browns and extra. Get more info here.

• Over in Carrboro, Autostrada Pizza & Pannini, a pizza and panini restaurant and neighboring gelato and low store in Carr Mill Mall, introduced they’ll have a good time their grand opening THIS WEEKEND, September 6-7. Saturday, September sixth festivities embrace a free gelato with any 16″ pizza buy and they’ll donate 10% of that day’s gross sales to the Carrboro Elementary School PTA. On Sunday, September seventh they’ll introduce their new Sunday Supper particular that includes family-style pasta and salad whereas airing the Italian Grand Prix. Customers may enter to win Autostrada reward playing cards and extra through the weekend and on-line. Do so here.

• And in Hillsborough, The News of Orange County has reported that Serratore’s Pasta & Pizza, from chef and proprietor Josh DeCarolis (additionally a companion in Alimentari Italian Deli in Raleigh), has opened within the former Radius Pizza house. DeCarolis is joined by companions Phil Bey and Pietro Costanza. They will give attention to Italian-American dishes that includes contemporary pasta, selfmade sauces, and wood-fired pizzas, together with a well-curated wine record and specialty cocktails. Best to check them out on Instagram.

Closings

• Thanks to a tip from reader Jan Delory, we realized that there’s just one remaining location of Mason’s Famous Lobster Rolls within the Triangle as each the North Hills and Wake Forest areas have closed. A single Triangle-area location stays in Cary at Waverly Place.

• Also in Raleigh, Chris Creighton notified us that the Subway at Western Blvd. and Method Rd. has closed.

Food Trucks

• The closing Durham Central Park Food Truck Rodeo of 2025 can be on Sunday, November 2. It will run from 12 midday till 4 p.m. that includes over 50+ meals vans with delicacies from everywhere in the world making it the final word Sunday Funday in Durham Central Park (501 Foster Street)! Get all the details here.

• Looking to search out your favourite meals truck (or stalking them and easily don’t need to need to admit it)? We perceive. Find them on Street Food Finder here.

Events

• For the month of September, Little Rey’s newest taco collaboration is with Dave Ellis from Figulina. Available simply in September, cease by to attempt a braised chuck taco with onion sugo, ramp salsa verde and crispy shallots. All proceeds profit Now Serving NC. Visit Little Rey’s here.

• Speaking of Dave Ellis, his Figulina restaurant is internet hosting a Hopscotch Day Party known as Sunday Aperitivo Sessions after its Sunday brunch service this Sunday, September 7. Brunch is from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Music begins at 12:45 p.m and goes till 4 p.m. with Kate Rhudy, Matt Southern & The Lost Gold, Kit McKay and Thank You Partner. Enjoy drinks and snacks from the eating places’ Aperitivo menu! Figulina is situated at 317 S. Harrington Street in downtown Raleigh. Visit them here.

• The inaugural Salt & Smoke & Sound Festival can be held Saturday, October 18th at Blackwood Farm Park between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The thrilling new group occasion merges collectively two beloved festivals–Acme’s Salt & Smoke and Sonark Media’s Harvest Festival–right into a celebration of meals, tradition, and music in a welcoming, family-friendly environment. Food can be supplied by Acme’s Kevin Callaghan and a staff of native cooks and meals vans providing all kinds of dishes and eating choices. The pageant will characteristic craft beers, curated drinks, and different fascinating spirit-free choices. All food and drinks can be obtainable for buy and isn’t included within the value of pageant entry. Tickets are on sale now.

• Tickets are actually on sale for 2025 Chefs for Change Gala & Live Auction, the annual fundraiser for Families Moving Forward, Durham’s main emergency shelter for households with kids. The occasion will happen on Nov. 6, 2025 at The Cookery in Durham. This unparallelled culinary occasion will characteristic a multi-course culinary expertise ready by a few of North Carolina’s most acclaimed cooks, together with Matt Kelly of Nanas Rockwood, Vin Rouge, Mateo, Mothers & Sons and Dino’s Pizza; Gray Brooks of Pizzeria Toro; Aaron Benjamin of Gocciolina; and Michael Lee of M Sushi, M Tempura, M Kokko, M Pocha and M Izakaya. Chef Chris McLaurin of Lutra Cafe and Bakery can be offering dessert. Secure your tickets now.

Food Bank Corner

• It’s no exaggeration to say that North Carolina is within the grip of a starvation disaster. More than 1.6 million of our neighbors — 1 out of each 5 kids — don’t know the place their subsequent meal would possibly come from. That’s what makes the information of federal funding cuts such a blow, and why it’s extra essential than ever for our group to tug collectively. Existing federal funding adjustments: The elimination of LFPA, a program that permit meals banks like us purchase contemporary produce from native small farms; Reductions to TEFAP, a program to supply emergency meals for households; Funding loss equal to 11.8 million meals that kids, households, and seniors in our group want. Upcoming federal funding adjustments to SNAP: 375,000 North Carolinians may lose meals help, together with 46,000 veterans; “Cost-sharing” shift of $280 million from federal authorities to North Carolina state and native governments; Increased paperwork necessities to qualify. But a present to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina at Raleigh Branch is a straightforward, efficient means so that you can assist meet the instant want. Every $10 is enough for 50 meals, so your gift quickly adds up to a big impact!