So I want to take my family to dinner after we see the Nutcracker, and I'm just not sure of a place.

I'm looking for a place Uptown Charlotte that you can walk to from the Belk threatre. I want it to be nice, but it would be great if it was a place with plenty of options around $20 a plate (for dinner.)

Please share any experiences that you're had. The bad, the good, the tasty!

Also, an after dinner place, like for dessert would be great (can't be bar, my sis is only 18.)

Thanks!!!

11/17/2005 4:54:06 PM

Blue is awesome, might be slightly more expensive than that though.

11/17/2005 4:55:07 PM

Top of the Tower Bentlys on 27th that place is THE SHIT...realllllllllly expensive though. Went there for prom they had a special running it was $50 per person but that was a salad, main course, and dessert. Id assume it is pricey when purchasing everything separate as well

11/17/2005 4:58:49 PM

Rock Bottom Brewery is pretty cool.

11/17/2005 4:59:22 PM

capitol grill was in the movie shallow hal. i went there for my junior prom. it was absolutely delish and around your price range.

11/17/2005 5:30:32 PM

Another vote for capitol grill

11/17/2005 5:39:01 PM

i considered all those, not sure if the capitol grille is in my price range, their online menu doesen't have prices, i want something kind of simple, italian would be best. has anyone been to bistro 100, how is it?

11/17/2005 5:43:43 PM

What's your order of preference for food, after Italian?

(Btw, you find a job in Charlotte, or there for holidays?)

[Edited on November 17, 2005 at 5:57 PM. Reason : blah]

11/17/2005 5:56:51 PM

http://charlotte.citysearch.com/

11/17/2005 6:59:48 PM

Lavecchia's and Mimosa. Unos is good it you're not looking to spend a lot of money. Capitol grille is expensive. Bistro 100 is in the same building as Belk theatre. Twist is good and they have live jazz music on Friday and Saturday nights.

11/17/2005 10:53:21 PM

Bistro 100 is good. Its right there in Founders Hall as well. Someone rated them as having the best desserts in the city.

11/18/2005 9:33:16 AM

is it really called uptown or do you mean downtown. i know manhattan is one of the only places that use the terms in exact (north is uptown south is downtown) but most other places just call their "center" downtonw. somebody explain

11/18/2005 9:39:18 AM

it's offically called uptown. used to be downtown, but they thought the term conjured images of a dirty, dangerous inner city or something, so they said "we're gonna call it uptown from now on"

11/18/2005 10:04:38 AM

Charlotte downtown is about the only place you can actually safely go to in that area. The city is worse than D.C.

11/18/2005 10:07:49 AM

i don't think i'd go that far, d.c. is pretty bad.

but sure there's some rough spots in northeast and west charlotte for sure

11/18/2005 10:12:03 AM

Well, maybe I didn't see enough of good spots in Charlotte but this is the only city where I saw a parking lot in front of a supermarket that had no paint on it used also as a cemetery. That was just bizzare.

11/18/2005 10:15:23 AM

Bistro 100

11/18/2005 10:20:11 AM

Capitol Grill

11/18/2005 10:37:02 AM

^^^ sure somebody wasn't just selling tombstones?

but i've never seen that.

11/18/2005 10:38:33 AM

there used to be a place on tryon called pony something... white pony?

i don't remember the name, but it was hot.

11/18/2005 10:39:35 AM

Hooters

11/18/2005 12:31:01 PM

i hear bad about dc all teh time and ive been there 3 times and most of it didnt seem that bad. it was clearly nice areeas and bad areas but every city has its bad areas. most of downtown dc is very clean.

11/18/2005 12:31:22 PM

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"Charlotte downtown is about the only place you can actually safely go to in that area. The city is worse than D.C."

Thats a joke

11/18/2005 12:43:39 PM

Quote :

"Charlotte downtown is about the only place you can actually safely go to in that area. The city is worse than D.C."

whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa

whoa whoa whoa


not true

11/18/2005 1:14:22 PM

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"Charlotte downtown is about the only place you can actually safely go to in that area. The city is worse than D.C."

bahahahahahahahahaha. ahahahahaha. ahah. ha..

good stuff right there. yeah man charlotte's straight up ghetto

11/18/2005 1:22:00 PM

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"Well, maybe I didn't see enough of good spots in Charlotte"

Charlotte is freaking huge, you definitely didn't see enough of it. Walk down Graham Street at night (where I cooped) or hang out at Plaza+Central for a good time.

zenobia, you set on walking and dining? Bunch of places near the school you probably hit up as well.

[Edited on November 18, 2005 at 1:26 PM. Reason : .]

11/18/2005 1:23:18 PM

charlotte isn't huge

11/18/2005 1:25:47 PM

population wise? maybe not

land wise? yeah, it is fucking huge

11/18/2005 1:28:34 PM

compared to what?

11/18/2005 1:37:28 PM

i don't know.

other cities perhaps?

11/18/2005 1:38:47 PM

it's a medium cized city

it's not FREAKING HUGE

11/18/2005 1:40:35 PM

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"land wise? yeah, it is fucking huge"

yup. its pretty much the entirety of mecklenburg county. now downtown isn't even 20% of the land area, but the actual area of the city limits is pretty damn big.

[Edited on November 18, 2005 at 1:42 PM. Reason : its not fucking new york, but it makes raleigh look like a suburb.]

11/18/2005 1:42:09 PM

OH OK

what's a "big" city, land wise? how many square miles must a city be to be "big"

DO TELL

[Edited on November 18, 2005 at 1:46 PM. Reason : ^New York's actually only about 50 sq. miles bigger]

11/18/2005 1:42:12 PM

pretty sure jacksonville, FL is the biggest city in the continental US

and even that i wouldn't classify as freaking huge

mexico city and tokyo are freaking huge

11/18/2005 1:45:58 PM

tokyo is only slightly larger than jacksonville

but mexico city is indeed, FREAKING HUGE

11/18/2005 1:49:16 PM

i just pulled tokyo out of my ass because it has like 20 million people

11/18/2005 1:50:23 PM

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"While New York City is the most populous city in the United States, Juneau, Alaska is the largest city in area. Juneau includes a whopping 3081 square miles (composed of 2,593.6 mi2 of land and 487.6 mi2 of water.) The city is larger than the state of Delaware! Officially known as the "City and Borough of Juneau," the city consolidated the City of Douglas, the City of Juneau. and the Greater Juneau Borough Juneau in 1970 to be the country's largest city (map). Juneau is a perfect example of an "overbounded" city, which refers to a city that has boundaries that extend far beyond its developed area (certainly the glaciers and ice fields in the city won't be developed soon.) Jacksonville, Florida is the largest in the contiguous 48 states at 841 square miles. Jacksonville includes all of Duval County, Florida with the exception of the beach communities (Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach and Jacksonville Beach) and Baldwin."

[Edited on November 18, 2005 at 1:51 PM. Reason : !!!!!]

11/18/2005 1:51:31 PM

k, Juneau wins

11/18/2005 1:52:28 PM

Charlotte is 241 square miles. Raleigh is 114, but really hasn't annexed any bordering cities to my knowledge but I've only lived here for 5+ years..

It's retarded to judge a city by sq. mileage though. Boston is TINY. Probably 1/4 the sq. mileage of Raleigh even..

[Edited on November 18, 2005 at 1:55 PM. Reason : f]

11/18/2005 1:54:45 PM

Quote :

"it's a medium cized city it's not FREAKING HUGE"

11/18/2005 1:55:30 PM

who gives a shit about sq milage.

11/18/2005 1:58:35 PM

yeah boston is really condensed, kinda like SF is

houston is probably the biggest real city in the US

you can drive for like 2 hours and still be in houston from what i remember

11/18/2005 1:59:41 PM

Chicago is pretty fucking big too

11/18/2005 2:44:22 PM

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"there used to be a place on tryon called pony something... white pony?"

palamino?

only restaurant in charlotte i've ever been to

11/18/2005 3:12:54 PM

lets just call all of wake johnson and harnett county raleigh and it will be a big city. thats all alot of these big land cities do. the tidewater va area does it. the cities extend from the nc border all the way to the ches bay. suffolk a city of 67k people is 400 square miles. raleigh is only 114

anchorage is large too almost 1700

http://www.demographia.com/db-uscity98.htm

11/18/2005 6:06:33 PM

Bentlys is awsome! I got engaged there! It is expensive, but worth it! I think most things were around $30 and up a plate. I would highly suggest it, even for a later date!

11/18/2005 6:09:54 PM

uptown
downtown

wakka wakka wakka

-ZiP!-

12/15/2005 10:12:15 AM