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This “land of eternal youth” pulls a good pint and serves up tasty traditional fare.

Reviews:

• “The NEW menu is outstanding”
• “The best Guiness I’ve had in a while, food was very good too.”
• “Wonderful Irish food!”
• “A Great Place to get away”
• “Great service but below average food paired with lack of knowledge from the GM makes for a disappointment.”

Tips: The bar stays open daily until 2am from Monday through Saturday and around 1am on Sunday.

Tir Na Nog Irish Pub & Restaurant
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One of Raleigh’s favorite Irish spots serves traditional pub fare and drinks to draw in the crowds on Glenwood.

Reviews:

• “cool pub”
• “Great Pub with Outdoor Seating!”
• “Nice place, boring food”
• “Good Food”
• “Worst dining experience….”

Tips: Sunday’s all-you-can-eat buffet starts with Irish breakfast items and adds nontraditional items like salad, fruit, salmon platter, omelet station and dessert.

Hibernian Restaurant & Irish Pub
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Quick mini-dates with 20 to 25 other similarly aged professionals; talk, then check “yes” or “no” if interested or not.

Reviews:

• “Highly Reccomend It!”
• “Referral Discount Made The Event Very Inexpensive”
• “I Am Dating the Guy I Met at the Event”
• “I’m Really Glad I Tried It”
• “HAD A GREAT TIME!!!!”

Tips: If you don’t check “yes” for any of the singles you meet, you will get invited back to another event at no charge.

DateSwitch.com
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TVs, tunes and a Las Vegas-style game room: Glenwood’s hot spot draws in young, energetic crowds.

Reviews:

• “Definitely try it out. "
• “Great Place To Go Watch A Game”
• “Rude Bouncer”
• “$5!!!! You will not believe it!”
• “go there!”

Tips: Tournaments and drink specials are featured almost every night of the week; check the schedule if you’re interested in a specific game.

Hi5 American Restaurant & Sports Bar
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It’s hard to please everybody, but this Durham restaurant comes darn close.

Reviews:

• “Great Variety "
• “Terrible service all around…very sad”
• “Good food but expensive”
• “Long wait for wrong order”
• “If you only knew…”

Tips: You can’t take the rolls with you. If you want sushi, you’ll have to park it at the sushi bar and eat it there.

George’s Garage

Get a bird’s-eye view of downtown Chapel Hill at this Franklin Street brewery and restaurant.

Reviews:

• “Good view and food,nice beers, but GREAT MAGIC”
• “Really, what’s the fuss?”
• “2 hour limit on groups?!”
• “Decent Beer and lots of women!!!”
• “Great Food”

Tips: You can light up in designated areas, and Top of the Hill sells cigars.

Top of the Hill Restaurant & Brewery
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Downtown Raleigh nightspot pulls double duty as tapas restaurant and swanky watering hole for hip urbanites.

Reviews:

• “Something different from the average restaurant. "
• “25% tips?”
• “Excellent Sangria – Service only fair”
• “Still good, but sliding downward”
• “Paella? You call that paella? more like rissotto and an average one at that”

Tips: A DJ spins nightly. Wednesdays is Latin night with free salsa and merengue dance lessons on the stage.

Red Room Tapas Restaurant, Wine & Martini Bar of Downtown Raleigh NC
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Frank Sinatra would have loved this spiffy steakhouse chain.

Reviews:

• “Great food, good service, expensive”
• “Mother’s Day brunch not up to par”
• “Not living up to the new downtown”
• “Great spot to bring a group, especially when you want to impress”
• “Very good steak restaurant”

Tips: There are few bargains to be found on the selective wine list: one is a jammy pinot noir from Rodney Strong ($35).

Sullivan’s Steakhouse

Swanky spot adds a touch of class to Powerhouse Square nightlife.

Reviews:

• “Let me stand up for my favorite Bar!”
• “Ladies night = fiasco!”
• ""Ladies’ Night"? What a joke!"
• “If you want a good time, don’t go here”
• “Horrific service and attitude! Horrible experience – very aggravating and uncomfortable for all. I would never go here again.”

Tips: Blue Martini features wireless Internet access.

Blue Martini
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Reviews:

• “Goodberry’s Rocks!!!”
• “Missing Goodberry’s”
• “Creamy Dreamy Custard”
• “Fabu!!”
• “Absolute Heaven”

Goodberry’s Frozen Custard

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