What To Have

You might have gathered from the title that I like tequila. There are several places downtown that offer great tequila and tequila drinks. Tequila in all it’s various forms is my favorite drink. I like it served many different ways: straight up, on the rocks, chilled or in a margarita. Here’s a quick list of places with some great tequila.

The duck and dumpling has one of my favorites. Tres generaciones – One of my favorites, I love this smooth tequila straight up.
Riviera has margarita thursday, they offer a wide variety of seasonal margaritas such as white peach and prickly pear.
One of the newest additions to downtown, Dos Taquitos, has an amazing tequila menu. I’m sure it won’t be long before I try each one.
Fins makes a couple great margaritas. They have a special Patron coffee tequila that makes a great drink. They also have Patron’s orange liqueur that they can use to make an excellent top shelf margarita.

I’ve decided to expand the scope of my discussion a little bit. This blog was started because I got a lot of questions about where to eat/go when friends came downtown. I’m still focusing on that and I’m going to include a couple other aspects. Mainly, I’m going to include parking in downtown when you go to these places. I constantly hear about parking being a hassle in downtown but I believe it’s more of a lack of knowledge about options that are available. So, from now on I’m going to include where to park in my recommendations.

The second addition will be theme based recommendations. For example, look for an upcoming article about where to get good tequila. I’m a tequila fan so I’ve got some recommendations. Other topics can be best burger, or good late night.

As always, thanks for reading and let me know if you have any suggestions.

-Matt

Hello,

So it’s been a while since my last post. It’s summer so there have been a lot of things going on. But i’m back, look for some new info and possibly new authors on the site in the near future.

In other news, there are a lot of events and openings coming up in downtown raleigh in the very near future. Look for the BBQ festival and several well known restaurants opening up downtown locations soo. (well known in raleigh at least, think sushi and mexican)

It’s the summer but i’ll assure you that restaurateurs aren’t sitting around. I’ve had some great food so far and it’s only going to get better. Some things i’ve had but haven’t written about include the following:
seared bluefin with wasabi crust
chilled cucumber soup
edamame and crab salad
cajun peel-and-eat shrimp
wild-boar carnitas
grilled lamb with mint tzatiki

So go out, try new things and let us know what to have.

–Matt

I’m taking a little departure for the next set of articles, I’m partaking in a week of sushi with some friends from work (ulanguzi). We started on tues at Wild Ginger, wed was Sushi Tsuni (not really downtown but close) thursday was Mura and Friday will probably be Kanki (yes at the mall but trust me). I’m gonna write a bit on each once i get a chance, but you’ll defintely hear about the best experiences I have.

–Matt

Hello, everything will be back shortly, we’re converting the site to something that offers more flexibility.

–Matt