Dining

Restaurants Open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day

by Patty Griffin | December 19 2011

In town for the holidays and don’t feel like cooking? Check out the list of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough restaurants open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Please call ahead to confirm availablity. Some of these restaurants will have special hours on these days.

2011 Holiday Restaurants Openings

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Eat to Your Heart’s Desire

by Chapel Hill Visitor | May 20 2011

Now that Andrea Reusing, chef and owner of Chapel Hill’s Lantern Restaurant, has won the prestigious James Beard Award distinguishing her as Best Chef in the Southeast. And Crook’s Corner has been honored with the America’s Classics Award, which recognizes locally owned restaurants “with timeless appeal, beloved in their regions for quality food that reflects the character of their community,” the visitors bureau is trying to enact a four-meals-a day rule, just so everybody has a chance to sample from the treats that abound. OK, there might be an ordinance against that, but you should definitely make an effort to eat-out several times during your visit.

Think of it. On Franklin Street there are enough world-class meals to satisfy everyone in the world. In a two block radius there’s nouveau cuisine, wild game and the best French food this side of the Seine. Try Vimala’‘ Curryblossom Cafe, 411 West, Sutton’s for hot dogs and malteds and Spanky’s for American fare. For barbecue, there’s Allen & Son, Mama Dip’s and Hillsborough BBQ to name a few. At the Carrboro Farmers’ Market you’ll find some of the freshest food, warmest bread and organic produce available. In Historic Hillsborough there’s gourmet award winning restaurants that are separated by a few yards from a classic chocolate shop, so if you’re on a tight schedule you can have appetizers at one, an entree at another and then take home a bag of hazelnut crusted milk chocolate bark. I could go on: this is hardly an exhaustive list. Think of it, rather, as an invitation to explore, an incomplete guide map, a treasure hunt.

Bon appetite.

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A Foodie’s Paradise in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough

by Patty Griffin | June 15 2010

Click the link below for a list of the dining options in Orange County. The restaurants are listed in alphabetical order by town. Choose from dozens of restaurants in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. For a complete 2010 visitors guide, click on request literature under the Resources drop down menu above or just call 1-888-968-2060.

2010 Orange County Dining List.pdf

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Plan Your “Foodie Visit” to Chapel Hill and Orange County With Our New Food Lover’s Guide

by Patty Griffin | April 01 2010

The college town (along with neighbor Durham) that Bon Appetit magazine cites as “America’s Foodiest Small Town,” has released the Chapel Hill Food Lover’s Guide with Carrboro and Hillsborough, written by local author and foodie Moreton Neal. The food editor of Raleigh (NC) Metro magazine, Moreton Neal covers the Triangle’s area cuisine scene for her monthly column. She owned and managed Chapel Hill’s Restaurant La Residence until 1992. She produced and co-hosted Durham’s popular radio talk shows, “Food Forum” and “Better Living.” Her cookbook/memoir, “Remembering Bill Neal: A Life in Cooking” was published by UNC Press.

The 84-page guide to dining in Orange County, NC is the result of a cooperative effort between the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau and Neal, who was commissioned by the visitors bureau to produce the book as a national marketing tool to promote the area’s rich food offerings.

Neal profiles over 100 restaurants, bakeries, bars, delis, markets, cafes, cookware stores, and wine shops in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough as well and even provides an overview of products available from the surrounding farmlands of Orange County. The book is dotted with original illustrations of local restaurants, food and landscapes to give readers a visual guide of Chapel Hill and the surrounding communities.

The book $12.95 and is available A Southern Season at University Mall, Bulls Head Book Shop on the UNC campus, and independent book stores Flyleaf Books and McIntyre’s Fine Books. Copies are also at the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Center at 501 West Franklin Street, For more information, call the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau at (919) 968-2060.

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Bill Smith, Crook’s Corner

by Laurie Paolicelli | January 05 2009

For more than a decade now, Bill Smith has presided over the kitchen at Crook’s Corner, in Chapel Hill, bringing his instinctive and creative approach to cooking to an ever-growing, always enthusiastic crowd who have come to associate dining at Crook’s with good company, great food, and a belief that every meal is a reason for celebration.

Bill Smith’s recipes are marvelously uncomplicated: Tomato and Watermelon Salad, Fried Green Tomatoes with Corn and Mustard Butter Sauce, Cold Stuffed Pork Loin with an Artichoke Spread, Scallops with Spinach and Hominy, Really Good Banana Pudding, and Honeysuckle Sorbet. Structured around the seasons and inspired by the abundant local produce, these recipes not only reinvent classics of Southern culinary tradition, but offer up imaginative interpretations of bistro fare.

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