Restaurants News in Raleigh

A member of the same family who brought us El Rodeo and Jibarra Mexican Restaurant will be opening El Cerro Bar and Grill in Mission Valley on Avent Ferry Rd. This restaurant will utilize the space formerly occupied by RockOla.

Glenwood South is the busiest street in the downtown area at the moment. Cars, bikes, scooters, rickshaws, and pedestrians all crowd the street at night looking for fun, drinks and the occasional boutique. Thaiphoon Bistro opened Thursday in the middle of all the energy and will add nice style and flavor to the street without being overzealous about anything except their food.

The owners of Thaiphoon Bistro have been working for a couple of months to get the next restaurant on Glenwood South open by the end of summer. The wait is almost over and doors will open tomorrow night for dinner.

It has almost been a year since we announced that Waraji was opening a second store in downtown Raleigh. Construction in the space hasn’t gone very far since and recently a note and a padlock appeared on their front door.

The downtown Raleigh restaurant will be featured soon in Bon Appetit magazine and today at noon, there will be a discussion about Poole’s Diner on WUNC’s program The State of Things.

Next week Pooles also hosts Final Pop The Cap Dinner Invitation below the Fold