Gocciolina ★ 4.6
Indy Week's Best Italian 2024 and consistently booked weeks ahead, Gocciolina operates a short handmade pasta menu in a natural-wine room that seats under 30.
Vin Rouge is a french bistro fine-dining restaurant in Old West Durham, Durham.
Bakatsias's French bistro has kept classical French standards on Hillsborough Road since 2004. Steak frites, moules and French wine anchor it.
Editorially verified June 24, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: 2010 Hillsborough Rd, Durham, NC 27705
Indy Week's Best Italian 2024 and consistently booked weeks ahead, Gocciolina operates a short handmade pasta menu in a natural-wine room that seats under 30.
A Michelin-recommended Greek restaurant at Brightleaf Square. Small plates, grilled meats and curated Greek wines from the Bakatsias group on W Main St.
One of very few Zimbabwean restaurants in the US, serving sadza and nyama choma with a wine list featuring Southern African producers rarely seen in NC.
Indy Week's Best Italian 2024 and consistently booked weeks ahead, Gocciolina operates a short handmade pasta menu in a natural-wine room that seats under 30.
The AAA Four Diamond dining room inside the Washington Duke Inn serves refined New American cooking with NC producers. Sunday brunch is an occasion.
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.
Matt Kelly's steakhouse at American Tobacco Campus has a tobacco-leaf bar inlay. Prime and dry-aged beef anchor a celebration-restaurant room.