Bank of America Stadium
Make a Panthers or Charlotte FC game a full day out, with Uptown restaurants close by and a pub nearby for more sports on TV.
Spectrum Center
Make a Hornets game a full day out, with Uptown restaurants and a brewery close by and a pub nearby for more sports on TV.
Jerry Richardson Stadium
See 49ers football at UNC Charlotte, then eat at a family-owned restaurant or a brewery near campus.
Wooden Robot Brewery
Wooden Robot calls itself an urban farmhouse brewery and says it blends art and science to make its beer. The South End room at 1440 S Tryon is the original taproom and it runs a kitchen and a coffee bar alongside the beer, opening at 8 a.m. on weekdays. A second Charlotte room, The Chamber in NoDa, holds the wood-aging program and a rooftop bar.
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Sports & Game Day Charlotte
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Bean Vegan Cuisine
One of Charlotte's oldest vegan restaurants, in an unassuming building off Independence Boulevard, with a long menu of fully vegan comfort cooking: barbecue, cheesesteaks, bratwurst, reubens, meatloaf and crab cakes.
Sun Burger Vegan Cuisine
A whole-food plant-based kitchen on Elizabeth Avenue built on African and Caribbean cooking rather than imitation meat. Its own line is that this is true food cooking from Mother Nature, not fake meat substitutes. It runs partly as a subscription meal service: customers pick a monthly plan, choose entrees and sides by Saturday midnight, and the food is delivered Wednesday afternoon.
Town Brewing Co.
Town Brewing sits on Grandin Road in FreeMoreWest, a block off West Morehead, and runs a full kitchen alongside the beer. The taproom keeps a standing weekly calendar: open mic every Monday, trivia, a run club, trail talk meetups and a kids-eat-free night. Indoor and outdoor seating both run to a decent size.
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