1. Mateo
9.0
107 W Chapel Hill St (at W Main St), Durham, NC
Tapas Restaurant · 60 tips and reviews
Paul Inserra: Dear lawd, dont leave without trying the oxtail donut & the crispy manchego duck egg tapas
Aly H.: Delicious and interesting tapas. The Cheerwine sangria is awesome!
Celeste Hope: Make a reservation in advance, or you will have a wait. We sat at tge bar. good service. Fantastic food!! We ordered about 4 tapas & ate every bit up!
2. Taberna Tapas
8.2
325 W Main St, Durham, NC
Tapas Restaurant · 19 tips and reviews
Kaitlin: Some of the most authentic, delicious paella I've had stateside. Their tapas are wonderful, too. Pricy, but that seems to be standard for American tapas.
em: Best croquettes I've had in NC so far...
Christine Cox: Great food and ambiance. Perfect place for a date.
3. Bar Virgile
9.1
105 S Mangum St (Main), Durham, NC
Cocktail Bar · 10 tips and reviews
Rob: Amazing Old Fashioned... sit at the bar and order a bunch of small plates
Jason Baxter: Cheese plate, fennel salami, Italian Sausage were great. Fries are great. German chocolate cake...great!
Greg Londres: Friend oysters....drinks, staff, deviled eggs. The burger!
The Wall Street Journal: If you’re looking for groovy small plates in the Momofuku mold, Juju, younger sibling of popular local Asian-fusion restaurant Jujube, is a great bet. Read more.
Betsy Brucker: Food was tasty, but a bit overpriced for the portion sizes. The suggestion that tapas equals same prices for smaller portions seems to apply here. Drinks are also highly priced. Nice decor though.
Marion: Wild boar dumplings, guinea hen dumplings, hawker noodles, and hanging pork belly with coconut grits were all incredible. Looking forward to trying every other thing on the menu.
5. M Sushi
9.0
311 Holland St, Durham, NC
Sushi Restaurant · 17 tips and reviews
Candise H.: Get the eel steamed bun, you won't regret it! The tuna small plate is also delicious
Abby Wu: Grilled octopus was delicious. Make sure to get a reservation as it fills up quickly! You are paying for high quality sushi and food and it’s definitely worth it.
Rachel Easter: We got a vegetarian bento and it was probably some of the best good I've ever had in my life. Not kidding, it was so flavorful and inventive, like eating abstract art.
Chris Vuocolo: Pop in between 3 & 6, M-F for 1/2 off tapas.
TJ Styers: Entire staff is fantastic, every appetizer and meal I've had here is great and the craft draught beer selection is superb. Many craft beers are switched out often so there's always something new.
TJ Styers: A few notable mentions... Calamari, ground steak Lasagna, Rigatoni Alfredo, the OLIVES (omg), jail island salmon over spinach... mmmm
Amanda S: try any of their breakfast pastries. My favorite is the spinach croissant but you really can't go wrong.
Food & Wine: Claudia Kemmet-Cooper named her pastry shop after the guglhupf, a traditional German cake with almonds, rum-soaked golden raisins and powdered sugar.
Justin Baker: The pancakes are so amazing and fluffy for one brief moment I thought I was eating on a cloud on my way to breakfast heaven.