Seriously, who are you all talking to in these other North Carolina cities that have these negative attitudes toward Raleigh?
Within the fairly limited universe of people who care about this stuff, Raleigh is usually ranked very highly as a foodie city. It was #12 on Zagat’s list of the best foodie cities in America, for instance. This is probably not a widely known fact about the city, but that’s probably because the vast majority of city residents are normies who prefer to eat at chain restaurants and couldn’t name a single one of the hip, cool restaurants in Durham.