I have to go there for a business trip and am arriving early and bringing my wife. Other than trip advisor and other online searches, do you have any first hand recommendations?
Suggestions for weekend in Raleigh/Durham?
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Visit the Duke Gardens at the university.
The Durham Bulls are on the road until June 24. Great place to see a Triple-A baseball game.
For something offbeat, visit the Duke Lemur Center:
https://lemur.duke.edu
The Durham Bulls are on the road until June 24. Great place to see a Triple-A baseball game.
For something offbeat, visit the Duke Lemur Center:
https://lemur.duke.edu
You could go meet Glov while he’s on a stakeout in the bushes around coach K’s house. Bring your ghillie suit.
You’ll get some good exercise as you 2 run from the police through Durham.
You’ll get some good exercise as you 2 run from the police through Durham.
Duke Chapel on the Duke campus is pretty cool to see. There's a basketball museum on the UNC campus (by the Dean Dome) and perhaps one on the Duke campus too, which is nice if you like that stuff, although when they start building museums for sports on campus I begin to wonder.
Drive from there to Pinehurst. Play golf.
I second wex18...My step daughter was married at Duke Gardens a few years back while her husband was getting his PhD in biomed engineering at Duke ( he's wicked smaaht). Otherwise Durham is pretty blah.
Lived in Raleigh since 1999
What you want to know?
Food
Bars, etc
Activities
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What you want to know?
Food
Bars, etc
Activities
Sight seeing
Lemme know
Anything you care to suggest. Food, attractions, etc., especially the non tourist stuff that is fun/interesting.
Durham has come along as a food town and destination; still the best thing to see in Durham is the Duke campus -- not hard to walk to see the Duke Gardens, Chapel, and Cameron Indoor Stadium (should be open) and athletic complex. A number of good places near the Durham Bulls ball park, including Tobacco Road Restaurant/Sports Bar.
Raleigh -- downtown off Glenwood Avenue has a number of restaurants, pubs, etc. within a few blocks
Angus Barn -- good steakhouse near the RDU airport
Careful with traffic -- rush hour can be bad; I-40 and the beltlines get very busy
Raleigh -- downtown off Glenwood Avenue has a number of restaurants, pubs, etc. within a few blocks
Angus Barn -- good steakhouse near the RDU airport
Careful with traffic -- rush hour can be bad; I-40 and the beltlines get very busy
Angus Barn is where Peyton Manning ate with some friends and left a big tip and the waiter put it on the Internet and got fired as a result. I've never been there but I hear it is expensive so be warned if you go.
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/blogs...generous-tip-server-gets-fired-210105919.html
There’s lots of really good restaurants.
If you like Mexican, there’s an awesome upscale place in downtown, called Centró. They have an upstairs bar, with an great Mezcal selection
Steak - Angus Barn
Seafood - 42nd street oyster bar.
Brewery - Trophy
Cool view - there’s a really cool bar on top of the Residence inn, in downtown Raleigh
If you like bourbon, there’s a bar called “foundation”, in downtown.
Duke Chapel is beautiful(even though I hate their basketball team)
The History and Science museum in Raleigh are both really cool.
There’s also a neat tour of the NC capitol building.
Chapel Hill - UNC is a really cool campus. Franklin Street is a mini college avenue.
Go to a brewery called “Top of the Hill”, and ask for an outside table.
I’ll think of other things, I’m sure.
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Good burgers and beer at Bull City Burger and Brews. Been there before bulls games a few times.
In Raleigh there are a TON of micro breweries you can check out if you’re into that. If not, the wife and I swear by Second Empire for a GREAT meal. Been numerous times and each time the food is better than the last. Eat in the tavern downstairs. Little pricy though. Also enjoy bbq at The Pit as well as at Clyde Cooper’s. Both are right down town near the capital bldg.
If you want a GREAT breakfast place, go to the state farmers market restaurant at the state farmers market by N.C. State. On of my favorite breakfast places around the area.
http://www.bullcityburgerandbrewery.com
https://www.second-empire.com
http://www.thepit-raleigh.com/mobile/
https://clydecoopersbbq.com
http://www.realbiscuits.com
In Raleigh there are a TON of micro breweries you can check out if you’re into that. If not, the wife and I swear by Second Empire for a GREAT meal. Been numerous times and each time the food is better than the last. Eat in the tavern downstairs. Little pricy though. Also enjoy bbq at The Pit as well as at Clyde Cooper’s. Both are right down town near the capital bldg.
If you want a GREAT breakfast place, go to the state farmers market restaurant at the state farmers market by N.C. State. On of my favorite breakfast places around the area.
http://www.bullcityburgerandbrewery.com
https://www.second-empire.com
http://www.thepit-raleigh.com/mobile/
https://clydecoopersbbq.com
http://www.realbiscuits.com
For sure, make a stop at one of the barbecue places to get some authentic Eastern North Carolina Barbecue. My favorite in Downtown Raleigh is Clyde Cooper’s (so good that U2 ordered their post concert food from them a few years ago) or The Pit, which has a bar and is open in the evenings for dinner.
If you are into music, there are 3 outdoor amphitheater’s that host national acts, Red Hat in downtown Raleigh, Koka Booth in Cary, a Raleigh suburb, and the big 20,000 seat place for big acts at Walnut Creek. PNC arena, where the NHL Hurricanes play also has some events but they tend to be pretty sparse over the summer. Depending on your music tastes and what weekend you are coming, you might find something to your liking.
If it’s really hot and humid and you want some indoor activities, there is the NC Museum of Natural History in downtown Raleigh or the Life Science Museum in Durham. There's also the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh as well.
Raleigh, Durham, and even some of the smaller towns like Cary, Apex, Hillsborough, have small, close off some streets, outdoor events from time to time, again, depends on the weekend in terms of what’s happening and where.
In addition to the microbreweries mentioned earlier, the Raleigh Beer garden with a Guinness World Record of over over 300 beers on tap is a great place to go. Other places with lots of good beer choices are the Flying Saucer in downtown or the World of Beer and the Yard House in the North Hills Mall area..
If you are into music, there are 3 outdoor amphitheater’s that host national acts, Red Hat in downtown Raleigh, Koka Booth in Cary, a Raleigh suburb, and the big 20,000 seat place for big acts at Walnut Creek. PNC arena, where the NHL Hurricanes play also has some events but they tend to be pretty sparse over the summer. Depending on your music tastes and what weekend you are coming, you might find something to your liking.
If it’s really hot and humid and you want some indoor activities, there is the NC Museum of Natural History in downtown Raleigh or the Life Science Museum in Durham. There's also the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh as well.
Raleigh, Durham, and even some of the smaller towns like Cary, Apex, Hillsborough, have small, close off some streets, outdoor events from time to time, again, depends on the weekend in terms of what’s happening and where.
In addition to the microbreweries mentioned earlier, the Raleigh Beer garden with a Guinness World Record of over over 300 beers on tap is a great place to go. Other places with lots of good beer choices are the Flying Saucer in downtown or the World of Beer and the Yard House in the North Hills Mall area..
I’ve been to all 3 and I’ll take Coopers or The Pit over Allen&Sons, but that’s just my opinion.
The Chapel Hill location closed in December. The Pittsboro one is still there and decent, but if you are in Chapel Hill, I would check out The Pig on Weaver Dairy Road.
The one in north Chapel Hill has closed. The one halfway between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro is still open. I ate at the former two times and the latter once. The food was pretty good but the last time I ate at the one in north Chapel Hill the restaurant itself was physically disgusting. Having a place look rustic but actually be clean is okay. Having a place look rustic because it's old and dirty is not okay.
https://www.newsobserver.com/living/article222718535.html
Have wanted to try that but haven't been yet. I like bullocks in Durham. Other favorite faster food places are Al's burger shack in downtown chapel hill and maple view ice cream in rural chapel hill. Durham bulls games are really fun, and if you're over by the Duke campus hit up some of the places on ninth street (Juju is really good).
TripAdvisor recently named Al's Burger Shack the best burger joint in the country. Of course it's impossible to truly pick a best burger joint in the entire country. But they do have really good burgers. In addition to the one in downtown Chapel Hill they've opened one in Southern Village (a housing development two miles south of the UNC campus).
https://www.businessinsider.com/tri...semary-fries-sweet-potato-fries-or-a-salad-10
Also, I don't know what you or wifeypants are into or WHEN you're going, but wife and I have gone to the Meymandi Concert Hall and see the North Carolina Symphony a few times. VERY nice concert hall and they have a summer series that they do at outdoor venues. If you're down this weekend, they're doing a good crossover concert with Ben Folds on Saturday at the Booth Amphitheatre in Cary (suburb of Raleigh). It's part of their Summerfest series that they do at the Booth.
https://www.ncsymphony.org/
https://www.ncsymphony.org/
