📍 Uptown, Charlotte

A regal Uptown dining room blending Mediterranean and Levantine cooking with Southern ingredients — called out by Eater Carolinas as a steakhouse alternative worth the switch. Plus...

Expansive French brasserie on Tryon Street in Uptown — the Charlotte outpost of the Holsman Hospitality group. White-tile walls, brass fixtures, a raw bar and steak frites menu, an...

Emerald velvet, brass everything, a fireplace, and a champagne-and-caviar program that has made it one of the most photographed bars in the South. Inside the Ivey's Hotel in Uptown...

Twenty-one floors up on top of the Skye Condos in Uptown, Chef Rocco Whalen runs a rooftop steakhouse with views that do most of the marketing — dry-aged ribeye, a lobster mac that...

Indigo Road's Charleston steakhouse, transplanted to North Tryon — wood-grilled bone-in ribeye, oysters Rockefeller, a hash brown cake that has become its own signature, and a room...

Michael Mina's Bourbon Steak coming to the Ritz-Carlton in Uptown — USDA prime, American Wagyu, butter-poached Maine lobster, and the duck fat fries that have followed the brand to...

White-tablecloth seafood on Levine Avenue of the Arts — raw bar, tower presentations, broiled whole fish, lobster rolls done correctly. Rare Roots Hospitality operation, OpenTable,...

The basement under Duckworth's on North Tryon — a candlelit room that more or less set the speakeasy standard for Charlotte. Bone marrow, wagyu sliders, whiskey pours done with pat...

The Southern-sourced restaurant inside the Dunhill Hotel in Uptown — a historic 1929 boutique property. Locally-sourced Appalachian-influenced menu, refined takes on chicken and du...

The warm Italian dining room inside the Ivey's Hotel in Uptown — wood-fired pizza, a charcuterie board, breakfast and dinner daily, and a Saturday-Sunday brunch that has quietly be...