131 MAIN is a Blakeney dinner option for steaks, seafood and American dishes cooked over a hickory wood fire. The covered porch and fire pit give you another way to enjoy the evening. Dining-room reservations are available through Resy; the bar and patio take guests first come, first served. The restaurant is cashless, so bring a credit or debit card.
300 East has been serving East Boulevard in Dilworth for more than 35 years, in the Street Car Station Shops. The kitchen works seasonally with an emphasis on seafood and local sourcing. It runs weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is patio seating, weather permitting, and patio tables cannot be reserved. Guy Fieri filmed it for the Indulgent Dishes episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
Cabo's Ballantyne restaurant serves Baja-style fish tacos with burritos, quesadillas and margaritas. It brings the menu's NoDa roots to North Community House Road. Order from this branch for a south Charlotte meal rather than the North Davidson Street location.
Caroline's pairs a raw bar with a patio at the JW Marriott in Uptown. High Tide Happy Hour is the reason to arrive before dinner: chef-selected oysters and small plates have their own weekday prices. The raw bar takes walk-ins, and the hotel offers paid parking.
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131 MAIN is a Blakeney dinner option for steaks, seafood and American dishes cooked over a hickory wood fire. The covered porch and fire pit give you another way to enjoy the evening. Dining-room reservations are available through Resy; the bar and patio take guests first come, first served. The restaurant is cashless, so bring a credit or debit card.
300 East has been serving East Boulevard in Dilworth for more than 35 years, in the Street Car Station Shops. The kitchen works seasonally with an emphasis on seafood and local sourcing. It runs weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is patio seating, weather permitting, and patio tables cannot be reserved. Guy Fieri filmed it for the Indulgent Dishes episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
Cabo's Ballantyne restaurant serves Baja-style fish tacos with burritos, quesadillas and margaritas. It brings the menu's NoDa roots to North Community House Road. Order from this branch for a south Charlotte meal rather than the North Davidson Street location.
Caroline's pairs a raw bar with a patio at the JW Marriott in Uptown. High Tide Happy Hour is the reason to arrive before dinner: chef-selected oysters and small plates have their own weekday prices. The raw bar takes walk-ins, and the hotel offers paid parking.
Fin & Fino calls itself a social seafood house and is part of Charlotte's Rare Roots Hospitality group. The menu is built around shared plates drawn from seafaring cultures of the Atlantic. The kitchen offers a chef's-choice option called The Treatment, where guests hand over the course selection. A second room opened at Birkdale Village.
The Northlake Mall Firebirds has a bar and patio for an early bite as well as a full steakhouse dining room. Its weekday shared-plate deals make it useful for a stop after shopping or work. This is the Charlotte Northlake branch, separate from the Huntersville restaurant.
Firebirds at Morrison gives SouthPark a steakhouse with a dedicated bar and patio. Weekday happy hour brings discounted shared plates to those seats. The Sharon Road branch publishes its own menu, so use it rather than prices from another Firebirds location.
Firebirds at StoneCrest Shopping Center pairs a steakhouse dining room with a bar and patio near the cinema. Stop at the bar for weekday shared-plate deals before a movie or dinner. Use the Rea Road location's menu because prices vary across branches.
Growlers pairs a craft beer list with what its own site calls craft Americana food, built around oysters, burgers, sandwiches and wings. The kitchen closes at 11pm but the bar runs to 2am on Friday and Saturday, which makes it one of the few genuinely late rooms on North Davidson. It is run by Jeff Tonidandel, a Certified Cicerone, with Jamie Brown, the same pair behind Haberdish, Ever Andalo and Supperland.
A small restaurant and wine market on Park Road cooking what it calls contemporary, seasonal Carolina Piedmont food with global influences. It is run by Eric and Cat, who are named on the site. Sunday Supper is a single 5:30 seating and takes reservations only; the wine market is open midday Wednesday through Saturday.
STK puts a lively steakhouse and bar on South College Street in Uptown. Social Hour adds smaller bites before dinner and again on selected late nights. The restaurant also publishes Wednesday patio music, making an early bite an easy start to a longer evening.
Sea Level NC is an oyster bar and seafood room in Uptown Charlotte on East 5th Street. The bar runs an oyster happy hour Monday through Friday from 2 to 6 p.m. with house oysters at $1.50. The bar stays open later than the dining room, which closes at 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It is one of four rooms in the Charlotte group that trades as eat704, alongside The Waterman Fish Bar, High Tide and Packard Tavern.
The Waterman Fish Bar is a neighborhood seafood room on South Boulevard in South End with an 80-seat rooftop bar called Topside, which keeps its own hours and seats first come, first served. The kitchen says it buys responsibly sourced domestic seafood and runs a $1.50 oyster happy hour. It is part of the Charlotte group that trades as eat704, alongside Sea Level, High Tide and Packard Tavern. There is also a Waterman counter at Charlotte Douglas airport, which is out of scope for this site.
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