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.
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.
See 49ers football at UNC Charlotte, then eat at a family-owned restaurant or a brewery near campus.
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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Customshop sits on Elizabeth Avenue in the Elizabeth neighbourhood and is run by chef-owner Andres Kaifer, who cooks Latin and Italian influences into North Carolina seasonal produce. The menu is printed fresh each day around whatever the farms have sent, alongside a rotating craft cocktail programme and a curated wine list. It made the inaugural MICHELIN Guide American South as a Recommended restaurant in November 2025. It serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday and is closed Sunday and Monday.
Rada is a small room on Selwyn Avenue in Myers Park that opened in 2025 with almost no announcement and was MICHELIN Recommended in the inaugural American South guide within months of opening. Charlotte Magazine credits chef Callan Buckles, who came from New York kitchens, with a tight European wine list and a Basque-influenced cocktail programme alongside the food. The New York Times picked it up in the same stretch. It takes bookings through Resy and runs a wine club.
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