Comments on: News & Observer’s Top 20 Restaurants in the Triangle http://varmintbites.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/ Food and Family in the Research Triangle of North Carolina Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:48:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Varmint http://varmintbites.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-645 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:32:09 +0000 http://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-645 I had lunch at Fins today, where we had a discussion of whether Greg Cox thought that Fins was the best restaurant in the Triangle by calling it his “restaurant of the year.” I’m thinking that he wasn’t necessarily calling it the “best,” but thought it best represented what’s going on in the Triangle. Talented chef moves to downtown Raleigh in very upscale space. It’s a very good story, and it shows that there is some future to our fair city’s downtown eating scene.

Greg Cox may also consider it to be the best place in the Triangle, but I’m not so sure.

Oh, and I think Herons is one of the top 20 restaurants in the Triangle, but I suspect he didn’t include any newcomers.

One omission was An, which is a pretty damn good place. Pretty space, too.

]]> By: durhamfood http://varmintbites.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-629 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:43:43 +0000 http://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-629 Susan: lol :)

I’m a big fan of Piedmont myself. I know quite a few people who have had less than brilliant meals there, but we’ve always had a great time. It’s one of the restaurants I’m not recognized at, I think, so it’s nothing to do with the blog, methinks. I guess we’ve just been lucky.

By the way, they’re putting up daily menus on their website now, which is a great idea. I wish more places would do the same (eg the Fed…)

]]> By: Nibbs http://varmintbites.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-621 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:27:40 +0000 http://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-621 For the Durhamites, Rue Cler also has the best latte and egg sandwich around. I’m pretty jazzed up on one right now. The latte, not the latter. The egg sandwich is served with a choice of meat and the yolks are still runny. Piedmont I see as being hit or miss, but still improving. We still really need to get to Red Palace.

]]> By: Susan http://varmintbites.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-614 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:17:34 +0000 http://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-614 Maybe he was afraid to mention jujube – then he remembered it was his own blog, not “that other one”.

]]> By: Cheryl http://varmintbites.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-613 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:25:45 +0000 http://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/news-observers-top-20-restaurants-in-the-triangle/#comment-613 While I’m certainly a fan of Betski’s, not so much with Piedmont, I don’t understand why they’re on the “newcomer” list since they’ve both been in business over a year. Haven’t tried Rue Cler….since I’m a Raleigh resident, I’m very reluctant to go to any popular restaurant in Durham without having reservations (we’re not into waiting to be seated) and RC doesn’t even accept reservations.

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