Beyu Caffé 335 West Main Street Downtown Durham Website Breakfast, Lunch: $4–$10 Dinner: $8–$18 Desserts: $2–$5 Cocktails: $5.75–$9 Coffee: $1.60–$4.50 This review comes from three separate trips to Beyu Caffé (pronounced Be You); one for dessert and coffee, one for dessert and cocktails, and one for breakfast and coffee. There have been mixed reviews on
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Alfredo’s Pizza Villa *CLOSED* 1125 West NC Highway 54, Suite 301 Hope Valley Commons, Durham Website Pizzas: $9.95–$22.95 Pastas, Calzones, Subs: $5.50–$7.50 By the Slice: $2.25–$2.75 Alfredo’s Pizza Villa is a Chapel Hill pizzeria that recently opened a new location in Southwest Durham.  Inside, you can get whole pizzas, slices, calzones, subs, and pasta. There’s
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Chubby’s Tacos 4711 Hope Valley Road Woodcroft, Durham Website $2–$8 per item Chubby’s is a local taqueria chain that opened up this location in the Woodcroft shopping center around the beginning of the year. At first, I was worried that it would take away business from Bandido’s just across the way, but I learned that
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I just posted my dinner review of Revolution last Friday, so this is but an  addendum to that one, since we checked out their Easter brunch in the meantime! It was three courses for $35 a person, including biscuits and cornbread (both just all right) and coffee, tea, or juice. We were a little too
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Revolution 107 West Main Street Downtown Durham Website Entrees: $16–$32 Smaller Plates/Apps: $8–$16 Tasting Menus from 3 to 7 courses: $40–$95 Revolution is a downtown Durham restaurant with a lot of buzz. It’s quite popular, even midweek, and can get a bit loud when full. It’s got a sleek interior with a heavy emphasis on
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Momoyama 8200 Renaissance Parkway Southpoint, Durham Website Entrees: $11–$18. Sushi Combo Dinners: $18–$87. Momoyama is an unassuming, Japanese restaurant with lots of good quality sushi options as well as the standard stir-fries, teriyaki, hibachi, udon, and tempura options. Japanese music played over the speakers and the walls were decorated with simple Japanese drawings. I liked
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I’m pulling today’s post straight from Carpe Durham, where I just posted it there. Read on for recommendations on great spots to eat outside in Durham. I’ve got reviews of a number of them hanging out around here, too. Now that the weather’s getting gorgeous, we had a request to put together some recommendations for
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Southern Fast Food Series #4: Biscuitville Locations throughout Virginia and North Carolina This location: 2822 Chapel Hill Street, Durham Website Meal deals w/one side and a drink: $3.69–$5.19 Sandwiches only: $1.89–$3.79 Biscuitville was next on my southern fast food tour. This is mainly a breakfast spot with hours from 5:30 AM to 2:00 PM most
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I posted the press release for Empty Bowls 2010 a few weeks ago. It’s a unique annual fundraiser that benefits Urban Ministries of Durham. At the time, I was unsure that I would make it, being as it was my fourth wedding anniversary and all, but we ended up going last Friday anyhow. Why not
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Chick-fil-A 7836 Leonardo Drive Renaissance Village, Durham Website Sandwiches: $2.89-­­$4.25 One chicken club combo with a slice of lemon pie: $9.53 I’ll admit it right now: this was not the first time I’d been to a Chick-fil-A. I will also admit that I honestly thought the restaurant was spelled Chik-fil-A, which exposes that I did
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