The downtown Cary restaurant serves a big, dumb cottage pie that will blow your mind.
Nick Williams
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Review: Hillsborough’s James Pharmacy Will Be Your New Seafood Addiction
It improves on its predecessor, LaPlace, in every way.
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Review: The Resurrected Nana’s Is Decidedly Old-School, For Better and Worse
After closing for nine months, Nana’s has reemerged into a restaurant scene that has largely passed it by.
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Wye Oak’s Andy Stack Is a Serial Collaborator. To Find His Own Voice as Joyero, He Had to Be Alone.
In Marfa, Texas, there’s no city to go back to. You are really fucking far away from everyone—just you and the cleansing enormity of desert and sky.
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Review: Bodega Triumphs Over Tapas Fatigue
The six-month-old Wake Forest restaurant succeeds by keeping it simple, but good luck if you’re a vegetarian.
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Review: Papa Shogun Leaves Us Wanting More
The Triangle’s Itameshi restaurant has unlimited potential. It just needs to bring the funk.
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Review: You Can’t Really Review Panciuto. You Can Only Capture a Moment in Time.
The delightfully ephemeral—at least on our visit—Hillsborough restaurant’s local-as-all-hell menu is constantly changing.
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Review: M Tempura Pursues Deep-Frying Perfection—and Comes Pretty Close
In a meal that was essentially a procession of impeccable marvels, the eggplant stood out as the apotheosis.
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You Never Get Over Your First Stoned Hot and Sour Soup
Every pot smoker has had mundane foodstuffs elevated to giddy heights by a few preprandial puffs. But friends, this was not “the munchies.” This was transcendental.
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Local Whole-Fish Dishes Cater to Family-Style Diners and Adventurous Gourmands Alike
“In Mandarin, the word for ‘fish’ and the word for ‘abundance’ have the same pronunciation.”
