There were a lot of people downtown Saturday afternoon, and I overheard a few tourists commenting how much they liked the city. When you put people in some of Raleigh’s more charming places, it really changes how one experiences it.
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There is a ton to love about DTR - its laid out well, pretty flat, numerous squares, and a variety of architecture including some great state buildings. I love DTR!!
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We don’t always think of Wake County as a tourist mecca.
But as the most populous county in over 250 miles in any direction, it’s quite the regional powerhouse.
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Raleigh is “the big city” for half the state.
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Indy posted another article about Katsuji Tanabe and his new restaurant in City Market. He has really started to embrace the city, I’m starting to really like this guy. Literally the Indy’s first question Why did you choose Raleigh over Durham?
Also I believe this is a picture inside his new restaurant
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As someone not native to NC, Durham and Raleigh (and Chapel Hill of course) always seemed like the same ecosystem. Haven’t been to a place so determined to be separate from a neighbor 20 min. away since maybe LA or DC.
The Research Triangle name ties everyone together to outsiders, but once you get here, you hear people speaking very firmly about not living in Durham/Raleigh and so on. Or living in Cary and how that is not Raleigh, when really to any objective outsider, Cary would just look like a suburb of Raleigh.
On the flip side, I’m glad he chose downtown because now I can walk there for lunch…
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The Indy often annoys me with questions like this one. It reads like it has to be explained. My oh my, how could any culinary star choose Raleigh over Durham? With a Raleigh chef winning national chef of the year, Its citizens recently electing two gay council members, and now this!..how is Durham going to keep justifying its self proclaimed superiority when it comes to being cosmopolitan?
I like his inclusive answer to the question about regional identity, and enjoying both food scenes. This must be why he chose Raleigh, because that’s what we do; we’re regionally inclusive. If he chose Durham, he’d be the type of person that pretends that Raleigh didn’t even exist.
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Well usually places 20 minutes away are suburbs/central city. Raleigh and Durham happened to be two central cities with their own orbits. So there is more gamesmanship going on. That was doubly true years ago when neither was strong enough to stand on their own so each “loss” to the other hurt that much more. I think finally Raleigh is at a point that it doesn’t matter what Durham does, and it can see it more as a complement than a competitor.
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“Durham is more authentic than Raleigh, just look at all the poor minorities below my $2,000 a month apartment complex. Excuse me while I take my Tesla over to my $150,000 a year IT job.”
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Indy has such an obnoxious Durham bias.
Years ago Durham had the Indy and Raleigh had the Spectator. And both were biased to their respective cities. Then the Indy bought the Spectator and shut it down. So now you just have the Indy with their Durham bias and nothing for Raleigh. It really stinks that they refuse to loosen up a bit and actually report things in the entire triangle honestly.
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I mean I’m not hating, they still report on all things Raleigh just as well, and were pretty integral to informing citizens of the behind-the-scenes of this year’s City elections, and I’m grateful they spent so much coverage on it. But when they show their Durham bias, it just really shows.
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While some bias remains I feel like they do. Take the election coverage for example - content and prediction was on point for Raleigh by the INDY
I don’t understand the rivalry. I like to think that the two downtowns are not competing but complementing each other. It’s an asset to have CH and Durham that close with distinctly different feels
Let’s not be the insecure big brother to Durham like Charlotte is to Raleigh 
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Our Durham friends never want to come to Raleigh to dine out. They blame “our” traffic & their great restaurants. I don’t get it. They are all Duke-centric, though.
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Anyone remember when Durhamites married their city, promising to love and cherish? I think my aunt committed bigamy that day.
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Charlotte is really the middle child to Raleigh’s big brother - hence their insane insecurity and insistance on everything being a rivalry.
As to Durham vs Raleigh, I lived in Raleigh for a decade before I ever even went to Durham. Course, as a kid there was no real reason to go, and Durham was spiraling downwards as the cigarette factories all closed up.
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They might be the middle child to Raleigh, but we are 6’ 180 pounds and in good shape to their 6’6" 300 linebacker body.
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I always thought of Charlotte as having the middle child syndrome, sandwiched between cool big bro Atlanta and nerdy smart younger bro Raleigh. In this context, perhaps Durham is the neighbor kid who feels edgy to the point they have to remind you every 5 seconds just how edgy they are.
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Does that mean Durham cuts itself for attention?
Also, what is the Triad?
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