Author: Riley Watkins
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Is Standard Food + Beer Up To My Standards?
This revamped staple in the Mordecai neighborhood is serving staples that will blow you away. It feels like just yesterday I was walking into a strange grocery/restaurant concept that was fairly empty next to the Raleigh City Gardens. Fast forward many years (to think my freshman year of high school was actually almost eight years…
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Blue Moon Bistro Restaurant Review
On the hunt for a meal that feels straight out of an old inn? Look no further. Tucked away on a side street straight from a Nicholas Sparks book lies a few historical homes. They have white fences that oscillate and scents that waft out the front doors, welcoming you in for a certain good…
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Poole’side Pies Review
A place to dive into some good bites and relax in Downtown Raleigh Picture this: You’ve just spent nearly nine hours at a doctor’s appointment and left exhausted as well as with a delay on your chemo that you were expected to begin that day. You haven’t eaten, you’re starved, and frankly not in the…
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Objects For The Fun Foodies
What a girl wants, what a girl (kinda) needs. It’s no secret that I love beautiful things. Objects and decor pieces- anything for the aesthetic right? (I recognize this makes me sound incredibly superficial, but I promise I am not. It’s more-so a desire to curate than anything else. It’s satisfying!) With that being said,…
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Bida Manda
A Laotian eatery situated by Moore Square in Downtown Raleigh. It’s been a skinny minute since I last enjoyed a meal. Not because there has been a lack of good food- in fact, there’s been tons of great bites around me. However, having just received radiation to my throat again I have been bound…
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The Cortez
A tropical oasis for fresh flavors on Glenwood South. “It smells good as hell.” I’d have to agree. My dear friend Maddie and I were facing the doors of The Cortez, a tropical oasis on Glenwood South that has a beautiful courtyard and rooftop hangout, but it was a bit cold for that kind of…
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Hummingbird
New Orleans inspired food tucked away at the corner of Whitaker Mill and Atlantic Blvd. I owe a lot to Hummingbird. At the start of my senior year, a picky seventeen-year-old was on the hunt for a job (I just had to have money for clothes you know,) and an Instagram post caught my eye.…
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