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Raleigh Map: Second Empire Restaurant and TavernSecond Empire Restaurant and Tavern Frommer's Highly Recommended

Cuisine International
Hours Restaurant Mon-Thurs 5:30-9:30pm; Fri-Sat 4:30-11pm; tavern Mon-Sat 4:30-10pm
Address
330 Hillsborough St
Location Around Town
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 919/829-3663
Web site www.second-empire.com
Prices Main courses in restaurant $25-$35; main courses in tavern $16-$30
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V

Frommer's Review

The historically important landmark that contains these two restaurants is one of the most visible antique houses in downtown Raleigh. Originally built in 1879 in the French-inspired Second Empire style, it devotes most of its architectural glamour to the restaurant, and a somewhat folksier and less formal venue to its (less expensive) tavern. Frankly, we feel a bit more comfortable in the tavern (the restaurant, at its worst, can be a wee bit pompous). Among the restaurant's well-prepared menu items are buttermilk-fried quail and arugula salad, steamed local clams with penne pasta, pan-roasted halibut, and grilled Angus beef rib-eye. The food in the tavern is less expensive and less fussed over, and includes fried calamari, "pulled chicken" pasta, Kobe beef hamburger, and seafood paella.

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