Holly Springs Restaurants

18 Seaboard Ave., Raleigh, NC, 27604

News & Observer food critic Greg Cox says: After working in some of the most celebrated restaurants on the East Coast, Raleigh native Jason Smith has returned home to open 18 Seaboard, his first restaurant. Smith's Southern-accented contemporary bistro fare is both memorable and

135 S. Wilmington St., Raleigh, NC, 27634

Ask any Italian-American what 'gravy' is, and they'll tell you it's the pasta sauce that their mothers and grandmothers cooked fresh every night. At Gravy, we take the same care, using fresh tomatoes and locally grown herbs to create our signature gravy, the same way it was made

901 W. Morgan St., Raleigh, NC, 27603

Not a Trend. An Institution. Award winning Irregardless Cafe has been nourishing our community with delicious meals, attentive service and music from talented entertainers from around the Triangle since 1975. And speaking of trends, we were "green" before it was the thing to be

2025 Renaissance Park Pl, Cary, NC, 27513

Greg Cox: I tried to resist, really I did. But the temptation was just too great. I broke my long-standing rule about allowing a new restaurant a month to iron out the wrinkles before paying it a first review visit.

225 S. Wilmington St., Raleigh, NC, 27634

Greg Cox says the Busy Bee is emphatically not your grandfather's -- or even your father's -- café. It's a multilevel, multifunction gathering place that caters to the wants and needs of the modern urban professional crowd from sun up to long past sundown.