For a state capital, we don't have a bunch of restaurants...

1. Captain D's
2. Shoney's (breakfast bar!)
3. Smithfield's Chicken & BBQ (inside the beltline)
4. Jack in the box
5. Picadilly Cafeteria

what else we missin?

10/11/2007 7:58:05 PM

Charlotte >>>> raleigh

10/11/2007 8:00:45 PM

There are better versions of each style of restaurant mentioned in your list...with maybe the exception of a Jack in the box

10/11/2007 8:01:27 PM

especially Captain Deez

10/11/2007 8:02:26 PM

Good ones.

Something besides a billion chain restaurants and a few good, but expensive ones.

10/11/2007 8:09:46 PM

how about original good restaurants....non of this chain crap.

10/11/2007 8:15:40 PM

i wanted to open a krispy kreme but the way they do it is if you want to open one you have to open 3.

10/11/2007 8:25:03 PM

raleigh used to have a lot of shoneys

sammys bar and grill used to be a shoneys

10/11/2007 8:40:47 PM

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"how about original good restaurants....non of this chain crap"

yes

10/11/2007 8:51:10 PM

I'll second the Picadilly Cafeteria

10/11/2007 8:54:33 PM

I would enjoy a Sonic that's closer.

But yeah, I get really tired of the same old chains. I would appreciate some more Mom & Pop type of joints with good home cooking.

10/11/2007 8:56:05 PM

Buffalo Brothers on Capital used to be a Shoney's.

The place right next to the Beltline ramp on 64 used to be a Shoney's.

Etc.

10/11/2007 8:56:40 PM

A 24 hour Krystal would be a good addition.

There used to be a shit-ton of Shoneys around Raleigh in the 80's and 90's.

-- Dave

10/11/2007 9:13:48 PM

when my girlfriend and i vacation in Myrtle beach, breakfast bar at Shoney's the first morning is a given

[Edited on October 11, 2007 at 9:16 PM. Reason : .]

10/11/2007 9:13:53 PM

^When I vacation, I wake mid-afternoon, and then, bloody maries are essential.

You need to learn how to vacation.

10/11/2007 9:34:08 PM

Morton's Steakhouse. I know, I know there are plenty of good steakhouses in Raleigh. But I tried it when I was in Charlotte and I dig it.

10/11/2007 9:38:38 PM

crazyfire in cary use to be a shoneys according to the manager when i worked there

10/11/2007 9:41:41 PM

In-N-Out

10/11/2007 9:45:15 PM

Lou Malnati's

10/11/2007 9:45:17 PM

white castle

10/11/2007 10:18:58 PM

Trader Vic's

http://www.tradervics.com/

10/11/2007 10:22:40 PM

my roommate and i were discussing that we should open a dave & buster's franchise

10/11/2007 10:24:17 PM

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"Hometown : Jacksonville NC "

Makes sense now.

This town has more than enough shitty chains/fastfood joints.

10/11/2007 10:59:55 PM

We need only one chain: White Castle.

But could make do with a Krystal

10/11/2007 11:01:23 PM

We dont have any Japanese food worth a fuck within 2-3 miles of campus.

10/11/2007 11:14:49 PM

PITA PIT FTW!!!

10/11/2007 11:54:34 PM

yes we do, over at white oak crossings there's a damn good place

10/11/2007 11:57:20 PM

german

10/12/2007 12:03:41 AM

Flaming Amys!!!

10/12/2007 12:31:13 AM

what's the name of it evan

10/12/2007 12:38:01 AM

Popeyes Chickens.

10/12/2007 1:09:14 AM

new japan express or something like that, i know it's not like... sit down hibachi place, but it's damn good, much better than anywhere else i've tried

oh and

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"Flaming Amys!!!"

i second this, i grew up on flamin amy's, my family went to that shit the first day it opened. went there for lunch today in fact, i'm in town.

10/12/2007 1:32:40 AM

dave & buster
au bon pain

10/12/2007 1:34:51 AM

BW3's
Sweet Tomatoes (Cary isn't close enough)
Pita Pit
Cabo Fish Taco
Macado's
Top of the Hill
Awful Arthur's

10/12/2007 1:53:59 AM

there's a sweet tomatoes on capital (even though that's farther than crossroads)

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"I would enjoy a Sonic that's closer."

seconded.
i don't get what's so great about flaming amy's. maybe i'm just not getting the right stuff.

10/12/2007 2:53:24 AM

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"I would appreciate some more Mom & Pop type of joints with good home cooking."

The problem with suburbanification and transient families is that McDonalds becomes their idea of comfort food.

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"Trader Vic's "

Damnit, now I've got Warren Zevon stuck in my head.

10/12/2007 6:24:52 AM

PT's Grille - kinda wanted them to just keep restaurants in wilmington, but since they've opened one up in Chapel Hill, they need one in Raleigh

Wild Wing - always thought they needed one of these and they're finally building one...I think its going to be over in Briar Creek

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"We dont have any Japanese food worth a fuck within 2-3 miles of campus."

Obviously your forgetting about Sakura Express hahaha

[Edited on October 12, 2007 at 8:31 AM. Reason : add]

10/12/2007 8:29:20 AM

Godfather's Pizza

10/12/2007 8:31:44 AM

Bikkuri Donkey
http://www.bikkuri-donkey.com/


mmm

10/12/2007 8:33:34 AM

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"Top of the Hill "

Raleigh needs on of these: http://www.rumbi.com/

[Edited on October 12, 2007 at 8:38 AM. Reason : http://www.rumbi.com/]

10/12/2007 8:35:54 AM

Mortons

10/12/2007 8:37:00 AM

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"1. Captain D's"

I wish you were joking. Take your processed seafood loving self elsewhere, k thanx.

10/12/2007 8:48:56 AM

I 3rd on a White Castle.

10/12/2007 8:55:38 AM

^^ I agree!


There is one in Durham on 54. YUCK!

10/12/2007 10:05:18 AM

pita pit ftw

10/12/2007 10:06:40 AM

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"Cabo Fish Taco"

I didn't know they had a specific fish taco store. mmmmmm!

10/12/2007 10:08:05 AM

Dude. An Au Bon Pain...:cream:

10/12/2007 10:08:49 AM

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"Cabo Fish Taco"

went to this place in charlotte and it was mind blowing

10/12/2007 10:23:01 AM

a chic-fil-a in cameron village would make bank

10/12/2007 10:26:11 AM

cosmic cantina

10/12/2007 10:28:07 AM