on today's video we're going to take you on a tour
of some of our favorite rooftop bars and restaurants in raleigh north carolina
hi this is chris morton real estate broker with exp realty in raleigh north carolina
on today's video we're going to give all you folks that are locals
thinking about moving here or just curious about raleigh the low down on some of the very best
rooftop bars and restaurants in the raleigh area that we hope is going to be very helpful for you
and if you stay until the end we're going to give you a look at a little-known secret rooftop bar
in raleigh that not a lot of people know about great views probably the best views of raleigh
great drinks great food staying to the end and we will hook you up with that but first
let's get started with our first rooftop bar restaurant and that is level seven
now level seven we've talked about before and if you check out our video tour of north hills
area you will see level seven it's absolutely one of our favorite places we go there all the time
it is on you guessed it the seventh floor of the ac hotel in north hills amazing views
really good very strong adult beverages they have some non-alcoholic beverages for all of you
teetotalers out there but a very great place to see and be seen amazing views of north hills and
it looks like about basically every time we go back there's a new building being built in north
hills so it's really cool to see that uh great place to watch the sunset and just totally a great
place we recommend it does tend to get a little bit noisy so probably not the best place to go if
you want to have a meditation session or a quiet conversation with your grandparents but otherwise
really really nice place next up let's talk about jolie jolie is a french restaurant in downtown
raleigh by very well-known noted restaurateur scott crawford it is his second restaurant beside
crawford and son and it has a rooftop restaurant bar thing going on great food escargot is amazing
had really really good experience there and in a really really nice view of the downtown area
highly recommended very very cool vibe definitely something you want to check out and just so you
know jolie is located in the historic oakwood district near krispy kreme so after you have your
dessert as jolie walk over to krispy kreme to get second desserts there's nothing wrong with that
next up let's talk about the hibernian so hibernian is a very very nice
irish restaurant bar in the glenwood south district downtown raleigh
very good food we had fish and chips there and a have burgers before there and they had these
really cool shrimp appetizer things so we got that and had a really good time when we recently went
great great view of glenwood south and as many of you may know that are locals glenwood south
is sort of the happening bar fun scene weekend place to go so you can definitely imagine sitting
up there you're going to get a good bird's eye view of a lot of stuff going on but this very
interesting fact about hibernian it burned to the ground a few years back and it took a while
for them to rebuild it it was a one or two story building forgive me for those locals that know
better please put in the comments below but it's like a one or two-story building kind of small
they rebuilt this massive massive complex with a rooftop bar it's really cool now definitely
somewhere you want to give a try to and again great irish fair next up let's talk about
taverna agora so taverna agora is downtown raleigh on hillsborough street it's right next door to
second empire which is one of our favorite and one of the best restaurants in the area so that's
all no how you'll know you've gotten there second empire's on the corner to tavern agora next door
really great ambiance Mediterranean fare very delicious food they have sunday brunch which
is when we got to go they also have lunch and dinner again highly recommended place you will
not be disappointed when you go there the only negative i would say about taverna agora is the
view is not all that great you're on hillsborough street and you're on like the second or third
floor so it's not like you've got these sweeping vistas that you saw in some of the other rooftop
bars but i will tell you the ambience here is amazing you will really enjoy yourself it's like
a little slice of the mediterranean or of greece in the middle of raleigh so definitely somewhere
i would recommend you guys go we had a really good time eggs benedict was really really good
next up let's head back to that glenwood south district i told you about earlier
and head to the raleigh beer garden this is a massive massive complex indoor outdoor and
rooftop seating at this thing it has the largest selection of draft beers in any restaurant around
that we know of possibly in the country not really sure it's also very very dog friendly
they've got a dog menu you're able to bring your pooch to the outside section the and you guys are
able to hang and chill and have a good time they like i said they've got a menu for dogs
you can get water bowls all of that sort of thing rooftop is a little small but it's
very very cool because you get a full view of the complex and also part of glenwood south
definitely somewhere we recommend going we tried the beer cider um did not try any food
here but we definitely are going to do so in the future because the menu look really really good
raleigh beer garden definitely somewhere you want to check out
next up we have 10th and terrace this is on the 10th floor of the residence inn in downtown
raleigh by the performing arts center this is that hidden gem we were telling you about
amazing amazing views great ambiance we really loved our time here we are definitely going back
who would have ever thought something like this would be on the top of a hotel
in downtown raleigh but it is drinks were great food was amazing we got the charcuterie board
and our people next door to us got like the bacon-wrapped meatballs and all kinds of stuff and
really really loved this place definitely recommend it it's a hidden gem most people
don't know about it and i think most people that go there are probably going to be like local
locals like in that nearby area or they're going to be people that staying at the residence inn
it's open to everybody highly recommend it the bar people are crazy good i got this like margarita
pineapple jalapeno drink and i said to the guy um if the drink is a 10 like i said how spicy is he
said it's spicy i said well if it's a ten can we knock it down to like a spicyette and he's like
what's a spicyette i said you know like a six or a five on a scale of one to ten and they absolutely
did that and the actual guy that invented the drink the bar tender guy that invented the drink
came out asked me what i thought about it loved it it was so good it had just a little bit of a
bite to it and but it was really delicious and tanner had this like peach drink that had like
the ring of like the chewy peach candy ring thing on it i don't know what those things are anyway
sour thing whatever he loved it thought the drink was really really good we had a great time we will
definitely go back to this place and we recommend you give it a try whether you're visiting or
you're a local it's definitely worth your trouble and come hungry because the food is really good so
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