Rue Cler 401 East Chapel Hill Street Downtown Durham Website:  http://www.ruecler-durham.com/ Brunch/Lunch:  $7-17 Dinner:  Prix Fixe $30, a la carte $9-17 Rue Cler is a French restaurant and bakery café located on a cozy corner of downtown Durham. The bakery opens up at 7:30 for orders at the counter and continues until mid-afternoon. It gets
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Last Saturday morning, I actually managed to get myself out of bed by 8:00am and headed downtown to Durham’s Central Park to watch the first few teams finish The Doughman, a crazy, food and athletics filled event that is in its second year.  In their own words on http://www.doughman.org/: The DOUGHMAN is the world’s premier
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Petit Caprice Vin de Pays 2007 Other words on the label: Mis en bouteille a la propriete, Vin de pays de vaucluse, Red table wine, Product of France. The nose of this wine is light and plummy, yet the first mouthful is very juicy and tannic. I honestly taste zucchini once the initial punch of
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Pancake Cellars 2007 Big Day White Other Words on the Label:  Paso Robles, California This wine is worth buying for the novelty of the label art alone.  A giant flapjack grape terrorizes a city block and a quick turn to the back reveals that it is all the dream of a young pancake grape, safely
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My sister, who is not the outdoorsy type, actually suggested we take a hike while she was here a few weeks back.  After I got over my amazement, I decided to give the Eno River a shot as I’d never been there before and it’s only 15-20 minutes from home. We headed out to North
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Il Palio Ristorante at the Sienna Hotel 1505 East Franklin Street Chapel Hill http://www.sienahotel.com/ilpalio.cfm Lunch:  $10-14 Dinner:  $18-31, Tasting Menu Available I finally dined at Il Palio, the Italian restaurant in the Sienna Hotel, after wanting to try it for a long time.  A friend and I decided to give it a go for lunch
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Mars and Venus Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 The nose is musty but in a good, inviting way.  It smells closest to sweet tobacco from a pipe. The taste is complex and not obnoxiously so, like some wines that pack in too many flavors.  Extra ripe fig is the main player.  It is medium-bodied and has a
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Drum roll, please…this is my 40th restaurant review!  Yippee!  Thanks, Triangle, for having so many awesome places to dine at! Piazza Italia 905 West Main Street, Suite 18A Brightleaf Square, Durham http://piazzaitalia.us/ Entrees:  $11-24 Piazza Italia is a combination of two restaurants and one gelato counter.  Per their website, there is also a market but
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Chateau Vielle Tour La Roche Bordeaux 2006 Other words on the label: Grand Vin de Bordeaux, appellation Bordeaux controlee, EARL Vignobles LABONNE, proprietaire a F33790 MASSUGAS, Mis en Bouteille au Chateau, Produit de France.  There’s also the certification of the French agriculture department but my brain was too tired to type it out. This Bordeaux,
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On Saturday, April 25th, Durham held an Earth Day Festival in and around the CCB Plaza downtown.  I went in part to get some sun, in part to see what an Earth Day Festival would entail and in part to explore downtown’s architecture and history a little more with the aid of my trusty guidebook,
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