Angela Perez

Sleek and modern seem to be two words rarely used in describing the many Indian restaurants dotting Cary and Morrisville. Despite its generic strip mall location, though, Nazara Indian Bistro is just that. Deep blue walls and white leather booths and chairs glow beneath hanging pendants. Ambient house music plays overhead as waiters in black […]

I kind of have a crush on 18 Seaboard. On our first date, this iconic Raleigh restaurant did everything right. And for Triangle Restaurant Week, an event that can be fraught with negatives like boring choices and uninspired food, the joint nailed it again.

When I asked a friend if she wanted to join me for dinner at Faire, a steak-and-seafood restaurant in Cameron Village, her dismissive response was, “Oh, you mean that place where everybody’s parents like to go?” I took her quip to mean she believed the surf-and-turf restaurant concept to be an out-of-date one, appealing to […]

Weary from a food culture that can take itself entirely too seriously, I opted for kitsch and whimsy for my third night of Triangle Restaurant Week. I wanted yummy fare and good fun, and The Little Dipper—a fondue restaurant that opened in 2013 in Durham’s Brightleaf Square—fulfilled that dream last night. There are worse ways […]

After surviving the first ice storm of 2016, I felt the need for a brief respite from the short winter slog. So for night two of Triangle Restaurant Week, I chose Babylon, an upscale Moroccan restaurant on the edge of downtown Raleigh. Exotic, right? In 2011, workers renovated this century-old yarn mill, painstakingly transforming it […]

I must confess: I have avoided Triangle Restaurant Week since I first heard of it several years ago. To me, the entire affair smacked of an amateur-hour prix fixe circuit, appealing to those who might visit a new or expensive restaurant only for Thanksgiving or Valentine’s Day. Like New Year’s Eve and Halloween, it’s a […]