Restaurants in North Carolina

Are you looking for North Carolina’s finest restaurants? Featured in this article are few of the most recommended dining places in the state where you can nourish not just your appetite but also your heart as well. Here are the finest dining places where you can bring your friends and family and enjoy a sumptuous meal together.

Located inside the campus of Durham’s Duke University is a fine dining gem, a luxury old English-style hotel, the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club which features the Duke University Golf Course and the award-winning Fairview Dining Room. If one is looking for an exceptionally delicious meal flavored inside a very relaxing ambience as it is adorned by English antiques, fine paintings and richly hued fabrics, as well as being praised by ordinary customers and food critics for its exceptional service and extensive wine list which has been praised by the Wine Spectator Magazine.

This fine dining haven's regional neo-American specialties have been very much a popular treat among customers: from the appetizers, to homemade desserts. Fairview Dining Room has been a recipient of the AAA Four Diamond Award fir 14 consecutive years.

Indulge yourself in their full course meal which includes salads (Mixed Field Greens, Classic Caesar Salad, Grilled Ginger Beef etc.), appetizers (Artisan Cheese Plate, Poached Tiger Shrimp Cocktail, Meyer Lemon Gnocchi etc.), main course (Grilled Bison Delmonico, Organic Chicken Breast, Roasted Saddle of Colorado Lamb) and wines (Zardetto Prosecco, Perrier-Jouët ‘Grand Brut, Tolosa Pinot Noir etc). The restaurant accepts walk-ins and also implements a business casual dress code. Aside from the amazing food choices, they also offer banquets, entertainment area, full bar, outdoor dining, private room and more. Payment options are the following: AMEX, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa. Fearrington House Restaurant located in Chapel Hill, in the original Fearrington farm house. is the only AAA Five Diamond Restaurant in North Carolina.

This fine dining paradise's interior embodies a romantic French influence that would keep couples coming back and experience not only the food but also for the ambience which is definitely relaxing, adorned with European antiques and Southern art that are nonetheless contributing to the place's elegance.

Resist the temptation and treat yourself along Fearrington’s wide array of food choices which include Yellow Tomato Gazpacho with a Lobster Salad, Midnight Moon Goat Cheese with Fig and Beet Chutney, Seared Foie Gras with Pain d‘épice, North Carolina Peaches, Hazelnuts and a Sweet and Sour Reduction, a triple chocolate dessert and a selection of wines. Once can also reserve online, or by phone, but they also accept walk-in diners. They accept payments through AMEX, MasterCard and Visa.

Other notable fine-dining restaurants in North Carolina are the following:
Saint Jacques French Cuisine, BIN 54, Rio Churrascaria - Cary, Herons, Frazier's Restaurant, Bella Monica and Il Palio.