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[JunktionFET]

QC704, on Oct 19 2003, 10:13 PM, said:

Does south end by the remount road intersection or by the east blvd intersection by you guys definition?

I'd take it on down towards Remount. SouthEnd Brewery and Atherton Mill are south of the East Blvd intersection anyway.

It seems like there are some businesses down near Scaleybark with the "SouthEnd" in their name... but obviously that part of South Blvd isn't as nice and trendy as the northern parts. This intersection is also where that fancy elevated LRT track will be, and where they will be building the station in the middle of the road. So, redevelopment will come to that area for sure.

There is a "SouthEnd" redevelopment project underway (according to the biz journal) on S Tryon south of Remount...

[uptownliving]

monsoon, I agree, Charlotte needs more eclectic restarants, including vegatarian.

[Raleigh-NC]

uptownliving: Thanks for the list; that's what I am (and others who are interested in visiting Charlotte are) looking for. Although I would exclude any coffee, chain fast food and smoothie/ice cream places (for the sake of keeping the list shorter), it is always nice to have a thorough list of what's out there. What was the name of the Uptown Charlotte restaurant where they filmed "Shallow Hal"? The one with the scene where Jack Black goes out for dinner with his neighbor, and his girlfriend goes there with her parents. I know the movie was filmed in Charlotte (at least for most part), but I wonder if that restaurant was there, too.

monsoon: Sorry, but your options are very limited when it comes to vegetarian restaurants. I am sure you will find many vegetarian items in most restaurants' menus, but I doubt you will find many strictly vegetarian restaurants here in Raleigh. There are two places I would recommend: Sweet Tomatoes (chain; buffet) and Zest Cafe (North Raleigh, on Six Forks Rd and Strickland Rd, next to Borders bookstore).

[49er]

That was Capital Grille in that scene.

For clarification, the BID for downtown Charlotte, Center City Partners, is defined as everything inside the loop + some areas east of the loop over to old Independence. So most parts of CPCC are technically downtown. It includes the site of the new Home Depot Expo store, but not the Midtown Mall site that Peter Pappas is redeveloping.

I know this sounds stupid, but downtown Charlotte just needs a freakin' TGI Fridays or something for suburbanites and boring travelers. A huge number of people just like eating somewhere familar - especially those with kids.

[uptownliving]

Part of Shallow Hal was filmed at the Fuel Pizza on W Trade St next to the Federal Courthouse...not sure if that is the scene you are talking about or not.


49er....there is a Appleby's downtown, can't get more chain suburban than that. Also CCCP recently aquired the SouthEnd business district org, so they are running the show there too.

[Raleigh-NC]

uptownliving: There is a scene, where Hal gets back his "real" vision and his girl/neighbor across from his apartment asks him to go out for a dinner. Then, they both go to a restaurant (most likely Uptown Charlotte), where Hal's girlfriend walks in with her parents. Hal goes to public phone inside the restaurant, after passing by his girlfriend (he doesn't really know how she looked before Anthony Robbins gave him the power to see the "real" person); then he calls her cellular phone number and she tells him pretty much that he is a psycho, since he passed her by without talking to her... Anyway, if anyone is aware of the name of that restaurant, I'm very curious to know.

[uptownliving]

I would have to watch the movie again to see. I really don't remember too much about it as the movie sucked.

[49er]

Yeah the scene in the nice restaurant is capital grille. The one where she flattens the chair was in Fuel.

Uptownliving, the Appleby's is a hotel restaurant in the Adams Mark, its not the same as "Applebees". There isnt an entire chain of "Applybys" is there? Ive never seen another. Also, CCP is merely paying the bills and answering phones for Southend while it gets its act together. They're still two separate Bids with separate boards and separate tax checks from the city. In the near future, an actual merger may occur.

[uptownliving]

49er...good catch, you are right about Appleby's and Applebees. You are also correct about CCCP and SouthEnd having different boards, however they are collaborating to integrate SouthEnd and Center City more.

[QC704]

NorffCarolina, on Oct 20 2003, 04:34 AM, said:

QC704, on Oct 19 2003, 10:13 PM, said:

Does south end by the remount road intersection or by the east blvd intersection by you guys definition?

I'd take it on down towards Remount. SouthEnd Brewery and Atherton Mill are south of the East Blvd intersection anyway.

It seems like there are some businesses down near Scaleybark with the "SouthEnd" in their name... but obviously that part of South Blvd isn't as nice and trendy as the northern parts. This intersection is also where that fancy elevated LRT track will be, and where they will be building the station in the middle of the road. So, redevelopment will come to that area for sure.

There is a "SouthEnd" redevelopment project underway (according to the biz journal) on S Tryon south of Remount...

Personally, I'd end it at Remount. However, the way it's growing, you may have to extend it a few more miles down the road in a few years to around woodlawn. Then you can also claim Don Quioxte and Beef 'n Bottle for SouthEnd.

[pompeyjohnson]

Ha! This is so funny to me. Iwaited until Ighoyt thiry some-odd replies before I said anything......................well anyway. I don't know how many restaurants we have here in Durham Downtown,but I'll give it a go.

Theres:
Fowlers
Devines
Down underPUb and grill
Fishmongers
Bread and Kabob
McD's
Carolina Blue Co. (?)
...A lot of Hot dog joints and subs joints on main street( they are usually open for lunch time.
Talk of the Town
The executive
and we even have few jamacan grills

If it is safe to say that ninth street is a part of Downtown then, they have a lot of bars , grills and eateries that cater to nitelife of the Duke students!

[uptownliving]

Well its way more than Duke Students that frequent 9th St in Durham...I really like George's Garage and that desert place, Francescas, or something like that.

[Raleigh-NC]

Nikos Taverna, in Brightleaf Square (DT Durham), is an excellent place to eat... and not a chain either. There is at least one more eatery in that building, too.

uptownliving: I agree with you, George's Garage is an excellent place, and so is Francesca's. Parizade's Cafe, at the First Union Plaza (is that what is called?) is also an excellent restaurant. I am not sure if 9th Street area is considered part of DT Durham, but personally I would include it, as well.

[pompeyjohnson]

If you look on the  Durham visiters bureau site, you will fine that they consider ninth street downtown.