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The restaurant is Southern style - fried stuff, southern vegetables. it's hardly healthy. We've been once with friends visiting from out of town, mostly for the "experience."
A good place that serves up a lot of "local" meat and produce is the Tribeca Tavern. There's one in Cary (High House) and another in Raleigh (Falls of Neuse, I believe).
This is a good resource for finding "farm to fork" restaurants: Slow Food Triangle
One of the first articles on that page is for a Pittsboro Pepper Festival. As a lover of spicy foods, this greatly excited me. Then I clicked the link and discovered it was mainly a bell pepper festival.
There is a reason there are two large pig statues guarding the entrance to that restaurant. Yes, there is fresh meat for sale at the Farmer's market, and yes, it comes from farms.
My kids won't ever eat at that restaurant, the pigs follow them with their eyes and creep them out! We like the seafood anyway, even if it is like getting food from a roadside rest area.
It is without a doubt the worst restaurant I have ever dined in, by a LARGE margin. A farmers market restaurant should not be serving margarine, corn syrup based syrup instead of maple syrup, and fruit preserves instead of fresh fruit. It's a Denny's with another name, and surprisingly even worse food.
I agree with the prior comments about the restaurant. It's a disappointment that the vegetables don't seem fresh at all. I ordered a side of sliced tomatoes and they were gross supermarket tomatoes, not lovely fresh ones that I was hoping for. However, I thought the barbecue chicken was very good, a spicy yet sweet sauce. Otherwise there are far better restaurants around but if you are at the market and hungry, it's an option as long as you go in with relatively low expectations.
Otherwise there are far better restaurants around but if you are at the market and hungry, it's an option as long as you go in with relatively low expectations.
If I'm hungry at the market, I just go over to the fish house. Much better food, even if it's just fried fish and hushpuppies.
If I'm hungry at the market, I just go over to the fish house. Much better food, even if it's just fried fish and hushpuppies.
ITA!!! love the fish! I once briefly considered the restaurant as a place to take my parents for brunch to make a trip to the Market more of an Outing. Would have been nice, but...
I wonder when the current management's lease is up? It really would be a great location for a whole foods kinda place. Like the Moosewood Restaurant!
I wonder if there's someone to contact over at the Department of Agriculture to suggest that the restaurant oh I don't know, serve food made from market goods? I've tried contacting the owner of the restaurant (same owner as Gypsy's Shiny Diner) and they couldn't care less. I guess I can't blame them when the restaurant is slammed almost every weekend.
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