Things to do in Charlotte
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Price's Chicken Coop
A Charlotte institution, scruffy Price's regularly makes 'Best Fried Chicken in America' lists. Line up to order your 'dark quarter' or 'white half' from the army of white-jacketed cooks, then take your bounty outside - there's no seating.
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Mimosa Grill
What says 'New South' like filet mignon topped with pimento cheese? This stylish-yet-relaxed Downtown eatery is equally classy for impressing a date or making a business deal.
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Afro-American Cultural Center
The Afro-American Cultural Center, largely housed in a historic old church has excellent visual-arts exhibits, films and performances in the outdoor amphitheater. The fine art collection is well worth a look and performances cover everything from trad jazz to poetry 'slams'.
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Mint Museum of Art
The Mint Museum of Art is housed in the imposing 19th-century US mint building. The hushed halls display historic maps, American paintings and an impressive number of gruesome Spanish Colonial bleeding saint statues.
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Bar-B-Q King
Wilkinson Blvd, the first four-lane highway in North Carolina, has several retro drive-ins, including this venerable place where carhops deliver minced-pork platters and perfectly-fried trout sandwiches to your driver's side window.
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Discovery Place
Wander through a rainforest, peer inside a huge eyeball or sample liquid-nitrogen ice cream in the chemistry lab at the hands-on Discovery Place science museum, complete with an Omnimax cinema.
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Boudreaux's Louisiana Kitchen
'Laissez les bon temps rouler' (Let the good times roll) is the motto at this purple-, red- and green-walled converted NoDa warehouse, featuring New Orleans standards like gumbo, crawfish etouffee and blackened catfish.
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Rí Rá
A friendly mixed-age crowd downs Guinness and nibbles fish-and-chips at this cozy uptown pub, meticulously outfitted with worn brass and burnished wood to transport you to Victorian Ireland.
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Levine Museum of the New South
The slick Levine Museum of the New South has an informative permanent exhibit on post-Civil War Southern history and culture, from sharecropping to sit-ins.
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Lowe's Motor Speedway
NASCAR races, a homegrown Southeastern obsession, are held at the visible- from-outer-space Lowe's Motor Speedway, 12 miles northeast of town.
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Mint Museum of Craft & Design
The Mint Museum of Craft & Design, which chronicles the history of glass, wood, metal, and jewelry crafts.
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Neighborhood Theatre
This renovated movie theater in the NoDa district is an excellent live-music venue.
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