Where To Eat In Raleigh, NC: Dreamville Festival Insider’s Guide

How many times is too many times to say how much WE LOVE Southern food?

While we’re in town for Dreamville Festival (April 1-2), we’ll be chowing down on some staples: bbq, battered chicken, biscuits, and quenching our thirst with some sweet tea.

Love, love, love.

Never been to Dreamville Festival or Raleigh?

Dreamville Festival is held every year in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was founded by rapper J. Cole and his record label Dreamville Records. Expect to see both up-and-coming and established rap, hip-hop, and R&B artists.

And Raleigh, North Carolina is known for its Southern cuisine. So yep today let’s talk about where we’ll be eating. Here are 10 spots to try. We go into where to find Southern-style food plus popular patisseries and other restaurants (in case you want to eat something other than BBQ).

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Southern Food

Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits

Style: American regional chain of fast food restaurants serving cajun-seasoned fried chicken, buttermilk biscuits, and sweet tea

Order: chicken biscuit with egg and cheese, sweet tea

Hours: 5:30 am - 11:30 pm

Beasley's Chicken + Honey

Style: Southern comfort food, their specialty is fried chicken, and the space is rustic and casual

Order: fried chicken and waffles sweet tea

Hours: Thursday to Saturday 11:30 pm to 9:00 pm, and Sunday to Monday 11:30 pm to 8:00 pm

Humble Pie

Style: specializing in small, Southern plates

Order: homemade sourdough, Mac-n-cheese, and crispy brussel sprouts

Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Longleaf Swine

Style: traditional BBQ restaurant cooking over open pits

Order: the brisket, ribs, smoked chicken, and mac n cheese

Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11:00 am to 10:00 pm or until sold out

Patisserie

Layered Croissanterie

Style: this bakery specializes in croissants and other French pastries Order: this: magic toast croissant dough slices topped with graham cracker frangipane, coconut, and pecans then baked. Finished with caramel and chocolate shavings

Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 8:00 am to 2:00 pm