Cheeni ★ 4.7
Eater NC's Restaurant of the Year with two James Beard Best Chef Southeast semifinalist nods for Preeti Waas, crossing South and North Indian traditions.
Mateo Bar de Tapas is a spanish tapas fine-dining restaurant in Downtown, Durham.
Multiple James Beard Best Chef Southeast semifinalist Matt Kelly built his name here. Mateo is NC's definitive Spanish tapas restaurant, driven by wood-fire.
Editorially verified June 24, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: 109 W Chapel Hill St, Durham, NC 27701
Eater NC's Restaurant of the Year with two James Beard Best Chef Southeast semifinalist nods for Preeti Waas, crossing South and North Indian traditions.
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Matt Kelly's steakhouse at American Tobacco Campus has a tobacco-leaf bar inlay. Prime and dry-aged beef anchor a celebration-restaurant room.
Eater NC's Restaurant of the Year with two James Beard Best Chef Southeast semifinalist nods for Preeti Waas, crossing South and North Indian traditions.
The Triangle's first omakase counter seats guests for a precision Japanese tasting. Tables offer a la carte as a more accessible entry to the programme.
Selected for Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants, M Tempura is the most focused of Michael Lee's concepts. Savannah Miller leads precise tempura.
A Michelin-recommended Cajun and Creole restaurant at American Tobacco Campus. Louisiana flavours and NC sourcing; the terrace view is the best seat.
Michelin-recommended Little Bull is Oscar Diaz's creative Mexican kitchen built on birria dumplings and a BBQ mole pork chop as the house signature.