Dining in the Triangle After Dark

Triangle Locations

Raleigh/Cary

• CupAJoe coffeehouse on Avent Ferry Road, next to the Mission Valley theater, is open until 11pm on Sunday and midnight the rest of the week. The one on Hillsborough closes earlier around 8 or 9pm, but allows smoking inside.
  Food: some sandwiches, bagels, huge cookies.
• Sushi Blues on Glenwood Avenue (near Crooked Beat Records) has a sushi bar that's open late - until midnight on weeknights, 2am on Friday & Saturday. The sushi is used to be excellent, the non-sushi (such as the yaki-soba) was wonderful. Both have gone down in quality, though. Good beer & wine selection. Music is classic jazz & blues (Ella Fitzgerald, BB King), sometimes at almost club volumes.
• Five Star serves its full menu until 2am, even on weeknights. They've been known to close the kitchen sometime after 1:40am on slow nights, but if you get there at 1:30 you can at least get takeout.
• For pricy sandwiches, the Rockford on Glenwood Ave (next door to Crooked Beat Records) is also open late.
• IHOP on Hillsborough St is open 24 hours.
• Waffle House on Hillsborough St is open 24 hours.
• Oak City Diner in north Raleigh is open 24 hours.
• Denny's in north Raleigh is open 24 hours.
• Gypsy's Shiny Diner is open 24 hours on Friday and Saturday. Has east Cary and Garner locations.
• Several of the fast food places on Western Boulevard near the beltline have their drive-throughs open either late (Wendy's 1-2am), really late (Miami Subs 4am) or 24 hour (McDonald's).
• The Harris Teeter grocery stores (Cameron Village shopping center, Western blvd & Buck Jones Rd) tend to stay open 24 hours - except for closing 11pm-7am Saturday and Sunday nights.

Other Triangle locations