one of my best friends and her husband designed a few of those

5/29/2013 7:24:32 PM

^cool...they are a great addition to downtown!!

Some are so nice and new looking I never see bikes on them....nobody wants to ruin the art.

5/29/2013 7:46:50 PM

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"The guy who had the main complaint about parking was a retired colonel. So its pretty much exactly what you expect from a colonel"

I don't understand. Are colonels supposed to be pussies or something?

[Edited on May 29, 2013 at 7:47 PM. Reason : quote]

5/29/2013 7:47:08 PM

^He probably meant about being a hardass over small issues? Maybe? I don't quite get the connection either.

5/29/2013 9:22:16 PM

Higher military rank = better parking spots.

5/29/2013 11:20:46 PM

That's the part I don't get. The spots in question are literally directly adjacent to a skyway into city hall.

5/29/2013 11:36:42 PM

Quote :

" Friday Fun Food Facts - May 31, 2013 Triangle Restaurant News Triangle restaurant news...that not everyone knows. Impress your co-workers at the water cooler. Featured Restaurant News Triangle Restaurant Week’s summer event starts Monday and goes through June 9. More than 85 restaurants in Raleigh, Cary, Durham and Chapel Hill will be offering three-course lunches for $15 and three-course dinners for $20 or $30. And speaking from experience, I’d highly encourage you to secure reservations before heading out (and you can do that via Open Table for 54 of those restaurants here). Get all the details here. Wake County Restaurant News After some pretty significant delays, Randy’s Pizza announced last week via their Facebook page that they will officially swing open their doors at their newest location (Lake Boone Trail in Raleigh - former Bear Rock location) on June 3rd. Check them out here on Facebook. The Triangle Business Journal reported this week that Kai Sushi & Sake Bar restaurant has opened in the Greystone Village shopping center at the intersection of Lead Mine and Sawmill roads. Kai Sushi is filling the corner space that was previously occupied by the Stella Mare Ristorante & Pizzeria that closed last year. The Triangle’s second location of PDQ will open to the general public this Sunday, June 2nd at 10:30 a.m. in Wake Forest. PDQ is a fast casual restaurant specializing in chicken tenders, salads, sandwiches, fresh cut fries and milkshakes. The address is 11690 Northpark Drive. Get all the details here. Last week we told you that the Fuhgeddaboudit Pizza in Cary at 3450 Kildaire Farm Road was becoming Camos Brothers Pizza. Their website now says that they are open! They also have a location on North Raleigh. Get more details here. Also in Cary, I got word this week from my buddy Shane Phillips that Alison Rocker has bought Unwine’d on Chatham Street in Cary and is changing the name to Unvined. Look for it to open on or about the first week in June. It will be a wine and tapas bar where they will also be selling the wine they serve by the bottle or case. We will keep you posted. "

not much in the way of downtown news, but it is Triangle Restaurant Week next week.

Anybody heard any news about AC's coffee shop Joule?

5/31/2013 10:29:10 AM

Quote :

"Last week we told you that the Fuhgeddaboudit Pizza in Cary at 3450 Kildaire Farm Road was becoming Camos Brothers Pizza. Their website now says that they are open! They also have a location on North Raleigh. Get more details here. "

I wonder if anything is changing besides the name? I've always thought their pizza was pretty good. "see more details here" just takes you to their new website. Not very helpful.

5/31/2013 10:40:16 AM

It's the same. The other one was named the same as Cary in North Raleigh for a while. Weird situation...

Luckily I found Salvio's in Cary which is good...

6/1/2013 7:18:03 PM

CityGate Realty took over the building on the corner of Peace & Glenwood, across from MoJoe's.

They painted over that godawful mural that faced Peace, which was an excellent decision.

However, now they've done something even worse: the front windows (facing Glenwood) are now filled with two giant video screens bordered by blue neon. The screens show homes and agents' headshots, but the colors are super saturated, so the night is lit by four foot images of orange men and women in polo shirts and tank tops.

It looks like something out of Tim & Eric. I might not hate it in a vacuum, but on the edge of Brooklyn Heights it's pretty goddamn garish.

6/1/2013 9:48:14 PM

^Email them and tell them. I haven't seen it at night.

I did drive by on the way to a Brooklyn Heights yardsale today... which sucked. Step it up, multi-family yardsales.

6/1/2013 11:18:06 PM

Email them what? That the colors are too saturated? It'd be just as bad if they didn't look like cartoons.

At the end of the day, this is America and they can do what they want. I'm not going to email someone because I don't like their fucking sign.

I suppose it sounded like a complaint, but I'm not complaining; I'm saying, "Look at these idiots!"

6/2/2013 12:37:21 AM

I like how right now the right side screen is just the lady sliding in with various transitions and nothing else

Quote :

"I don't understand. Are colonels supposed to be pussies or something? "

Its the rank when they start turning into pampered prima donnas. The only thing that would surprise me less would be if we found out that the wife was angry because she was a colonels wife and couldn't use his better parking spot.

6/2/2013 1:40:59 PM

nothing new: http://www.wral.com/possible-sale-of-seaboard-station-worries-business-owners/12511294/

6/4/2013 9:34:59 AM

So great

6/4/2013 10:01:39 AM

^what a giant upgrade....makes me want to sucker punch whomever decided to throw the stucco walls up over that beautiful building!

James has a knack for this stuff clearly, at least the right people around him, and plenty of cash. I hope he completes 100 more projects in the coming years!

6/4/2013 11:08:18 AM

New L Building rendering

http://dtraleigh.com/2013/06/the-l-shows-off-updated-renderings/

6/6/2013 1:12:43 PM

Quote :

" Wake County Restaurant News After an unconventional “soft opening” we got word this week from the Triangle Business Journal that the Garland officially opened this past week. The restaurant will serve dinner only on Tuesday through Saturday nights and will introduce lunch and late-night options in the coming weeks. The dining room is still being renovated, so for now, service remains “through the window.” Check them out here. While not 100% confirmed, we feel secure in telling you that the former Hot Box Pizza location on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh will become the newest location for Tijuana Flats here in the Triangle. With locations already in Raleigh and Cary, and one on the way to 9th Street in Durham, this will be the 4th Triangle location. Check them out here. Here's another good rumor, New Raleigh hinted this week that Klausie’s Pizza would be opening a brick and mortar location in the former Draft location on Glenwood South (and before that, Hi-5). We’ll keep an eye on it and give you updates as we get them. In the meantime, track Klausies down here. And speaking of pizza, and downtown Raleigh, New Raleigh also turned us onto the news this week that Donato’s Pizza is moving into Seaboard Station. No word yet on their time frame, but we’ll keep an eye on it. Check them out here."

http://trianglefoodguy.blogspot.com/

Some decent downtown/h-boro street news today. Happy for Klausie's Pizza, not sure if that is the right space for them, but its cool that he has been successful enough to open a brick and mortar shop.

6/7/2013 9:14:05 AM

love me some tijuana flats. i make it wet every time.

6/7/2013 9:18:35 AM

^^that space is an over-priced death trap for businesses

6/7/2013 9:58:11 AM

^agreed, location and price may not be right for Klausie's...although having the hotel next door now is nice. I pictured them in a small space on Wilmington street or in City Market.

6/7/2013 10:39:03 AM

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2013/06/ohio-pizza-chain-coming-to-raleigh.html

More on Donato's Pizza

6/7/2013 10:45:31 AM

I really hope that location doesn't sink Klausie's.

6/7/2013 12:52:42 PM

Can't sink him any more than his demeanor.

6/7/2013 2:02:07 PM

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2013/06/jimmy-vs-opening-in-downtown-raleigh.html

Jimmy V's coming to the Sheraton soon with a big patio seating area!

6/10/2013 2:49:13 PM

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"The downtown Raleigh Jimmy V’s restaurant, however, has no affiliation with the Jimmy V’s Steakhouse & Tavern at the MacGregor Village shopping center in Cary, says Terry Pegram, owner of the Cary restaurant."

weird

6/11/2013 12:04:15 AM

Wonder how far Donato's delivery range will be. It would be nice to have a delivery option from a non shitty pizza chain (assuming Donato's is any good).

6/11/2013 8:54:54 AM

^^ Seems like anybody can just slap Jimmy V's name on a restaurant in that case.

6/11/2013 9:04:31 AM

^^ capital creations delivers

6/11/2013 9:18:00 AM

Thanks for the tip, never eaten their pie. Deliver south of the beltline I wonder?

6/11/2013 9:42:16 AM

Probably, depending on how far south. and they'll deliver all over raleigh if you give them a 24-hour notice. I'm a fan of CC, even if most of their workers are hippies or metal punks. Good pizza, great variety, and their salads are really good and pretty cheap.

6/11/2013 9:46:24 AM

south of the beltline meaning inside the beltline? Yes. South of the beltline meaning OTB south of the beltline? Not sure, they are located on Wake Forest near Capital.

Anything of theirs is good, if you want something that is a little different than your typical Pizza, I recommend the State Fair:
"STATE FAIR (WHITE CRUST)

Dijon Mustard with Italian sausage, provolone, white onions and green peppers."

Their spreads are also good and you can get them with bread from Vie de France.

6/11/2013 9:46:33 AM

Sounds tasty, I'll check out their menu. I doubt they'll deliver to me though; I live in Renaissance Park.

6/11/2013 10:00:03 AM

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" We caught wind this week from New Raleigh that Oak City Meatball is coming to the Red Hat building in the space formerly occupied by Wild Ginger. This is another concept from Ken Yowell, who is also behind Moonlight Pizza, Calavera Empanadas and Tequila as well as 3 more restaurants that are on the way. Two of those will be in Carrboro - East Main Meatball Company and another empanadas concept. Stay tuned for more details. The spirit of Jim Valvano lives on. And this time it is in a new restaurant concept called Jimmy V’s Osteria + Bar which will be opening this summer adjacent to the Sheraton Hotel Downtown Raleigh. The unique partnership with the V Foundation will result in a donation of 2.5% of all sales to the foundation. We’ll let you know when they set an open date. Get a sneak peak at their website here. We told you about it last week, but thanks to the Downtown Raleigh Alliance, we have confirmed the opening date of Donatos Pizza Subs & Salads in downtown Raleigh’s Seaboard Station. They will swing open their doors on June 25th. Get more information on Donatos here. In the vague category, we got word this week from New Raleigh that a new ice cream place is coming to Wilmington Street in downtown Raleigh. How is that for vague? We’ll keep an eye on it. "

http://trianglefoodguy.blogspot.com/

6/14/2013 9:15:37 AM

Hopefully they'll call it Oak City Ice Cream.

In fact, lets start a new thread called Downtown Oak City Revitalization.

6/14/2013 9:25:50 AM

I like to call it Oakvegas

6/14/2013 10:15:02 AM

^kill yourself

A Meatball Shop? Best news I've heard this month.

6/14/2013 10:56:34 AM

RIP Salisbury Bridge
http://www.wral.com/bridge-work-closes-part-of-salisbury-street/12556764/

I didn't realize that it had been closed since 2008. Just shows how fast the city works.

6/15/2013 4:11:22 PM

Quote :

"I'm a fan of CC, even if most of their workers are hippies or metal punks"

I'd make fun of this, but it's 100% true.

6/16/2013 1:36:33 AM

Quote :

"shimmer effect"

6/16/2013 5:36:43 PM

"Shimmer City Cycling" sounds better than "Oak City Cycling" anyway.

6/16/2013 6:38:03 PM

if you are ~

6/16/2013 8:34:01 PM

Anybody been to the Garland yet? I think I am going to stop by and try the pork dish with the sticky/crispy rice. Menu looks pretty good....do they set tables out around the window?

6/19/2013 10:54:33 AM

^ They do have a few tables set out, but if they're busy at all, expect to stand or take away.

6/19/2013 11:37:52 AM

^ You can also take it downstairs to Neptunes and eat down there.

6/21/2013 2:38:28 PM

^^food was solid, had the pork bowl/sticky rice. Very enjoyable, and I will be back. Hope the expanded menu/restaurant opens soon!

and

http://www.gogoraleigh.com/2013/06/21/details-emerge-about-the-l-building/

6/21/2013 2:56:11 PM

gogoraleigh author must be a smoker, they mention it twice. Only 19% of adults are smokers, and this is falling quickly. i wouldn't expect a building designer to think about them too much.

i am surprised that they don't have doors that open to railings at least since there are no balconies.

6/21/2013 3:24:14 PM

Seems to also apply somewhat of a suburban mentality with regards to outdoor space. Balconies are nice don't get me wrong, but one of the advantages of city living is that you are surrounded by such space. It's difficult to convey that point sometimes. I often talk to people who are aghast at the idea of living somewhere like New York City and will usually cite primarily things like tiny apartments and not having a yard. But, if you live in a place where you have easy to access to beautiful park spaces and such an incredible wealth of great public spaces, bars, restaurants, etc., those sorts of amenities become less important.

6/21/2013 3:28:49 PM

yeah, that article about the L is shit

6/21/2013 3:36:03 PM

^^well said.

6/24/2013 9:03:51 AM