Charlotte NC| The Dish On Charlotte
August 17th, 2008 Categories: Charlotte News and Politics
reprinted from CNN who reprinted this Southern Living article- hope you like it.
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Culinary school Johnson & Wales University relocated to Charlotte in 2004
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The banking boom brought a diverse market hungry for fine dining
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Uptown serves power lunches by day and buzzing nightlife after hours
By Kim Cross
(Southern Living) — Nibble your way through Charlotte, North Carolina, and you’ll taste the New South. Shining on the Piedmont with a modern skyline and brimming with emerging restaurants, this is a city that savors the fresh and the new.
The outdoor patio at M5, a popular spot in SouthPark 
Charlotte’s emergence on the food radar — a recent and welcome debut — combines fascinating ingredients: a surging urban renaissance, support from the country’s No. 2 banking town, and fresh talent from the newest campus of Johnson & Wales University. This well-respected culinary school’s 2004 relocation from Charleston, South Carolina, cemented Charlotte’s position as the South’s new food city.
The restaurant revolution
You may remember Charlotte as a steak-and-potatoes place, home of the country club rib eye. That was before the banking boom brought an international workforce and a diverse market hungry for fine dining. Sophisticated palates demanded more — and got it.
Now the restaurant revolution is in full force. Take our neighborhood-by-neighborhood tasting tour.
The tasting tour
Uptown: Urban and upscale
Power lunches by day, buzzing nightlife after hours — what a far cry from the old ghost town days.
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