Restaurants in North Carolina
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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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Salsa's
This tiny, brightly painted joint serves amazing, mutant Latin fusion cuisine - think lamb empanadas with goat's cheese and banana salsa or crab-jalapeño-saffron-fennel egg rolls. Beware huge crowds, unreasonably spicy appetizers and unannounced substitutions, and always order off the specials menu.
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Blue Point
Overlooking Currituck Sound in the upscale town of Duck, this contemporary bistro serves refined Southern coastal cuisine - think seared sea scallops over arugula - and is considered by many to be the best fine dining on the Banks. At lunchtime, paninis and fancy salads are delicious and reasonably priced.
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Jolly Roger
The atmosphere in this OBX institution could be described as 'pirate bordello, ' with Christmas lights, mermaid murals and evening karaoke contests. Come for huuuuge Southern breakfasts, groaning platters of shrimp fettuccine, or late-night burgers at the bar.
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Awful Arthur's Oyster Bar
Oysters go down easy at this friendly restaurant and raw bar (emphasis on the 'bar'), as do the excellent soft-shell crab sandwiches and sky-high, homemade key lime pie. Don't be shy about ordering a beer before noon; the locals aren't.
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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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Howard's Pub
Howard's Pub has been around in one incarnation or another since the 1850s. Listen to live music on the big wooden porch while snacking on a crab cake sandwich and sipping a mug of one of the 200 beers of tap.
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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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Rosetta's Kitchen
An institution among Asheville's dreadlocked set, where you can belly up to the counter for a bowl of peanut butter tofu (looks awful, tastes heavenly) at 2am.
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Early Girl Eatery
Order a tofu scramble or a plate of free-range roast chicken in this neighborhood café's sunny, crowded dining room, overlooking a small city park.
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Knights on Main
This wood-paneled family diner is the place to try livermush, a mountain specialty consisting of…well, you can guess.
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