Great café with coffee and pastries in eclectic downtown Carrboro.
Busy café for breakfast and brunch (our favorite!), just north of Main Street in Carrboro.
Best burgers in the Triangle, 20 minutes north in lively downtown Durham.
Tacos and tequila on beautiful Franklin Street in the heart of Chapel Hill. Try the quesabirria!
Highly recommended Thai food just into Carrboro.
Excellent milk tea, fruit tea, and boba.
The best ice cream in Chapel Hill, with unique flavors and several dairy free options! Well worth the short drive.
UNC's free, public art museum on the north side of campus, with regularly rotating collections.
Explore the legacy of Carolina Basketball near the historic Dean Dome.
Managed by the North Carolina Botanical Gardens, Coker Arboretum is a beautiful, shady spot just off Franklin Street on the UNC campus.
Our favorite bookstore! If you'd like to get some quiet time and shop for books, this is the place to go.
If you just can't get enough of botanical gardens, the Duke Gardens feature a more diverse array of flowering plants with picturesque scenery.
While there's no shortage of bars in this college town, Atlas provides a more relaxed lounge atmosphere a bit further from the party scene.
For the full bar and restaurant experience, look to the Top of the Hill on the southeast corner of Chapel Hill's center at Franklin and Columbia.