Restaurants near North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

What a beautiful restaurant! The fountain adds a bubbly relaxing vibe, and the staff is incredible, attentive (but not too attentive), polite, and knowledgeable. The manager even came over with a list of local recommendations when they found out we had recently moved to the area which is really above and beyond sentiment to their hospitality. The baguette and cheese appetizer with strawberry preserves and grape grapes was incredible, highly recommend that and the fried artichokes. The ribeye sandwich was delicious too.  I am still thinking about the Schaumburg rosé paired with the baguette and cheese, they were that good! A lovely afternoon and highly recommend. The glass roof is so charming and likely beautiful and a rain storm too!

Mulino is a great spot for Italian! Their patio is great, highly recommend!

Chicken with artichokes and the kebabs were outstanding

DELICIOUS! Great friendly staff that accommodates food allergy/preferences to perfection! YOU MUST TRY!

We ordered four different menu items. Three were well prepared. The Fruit of the Sea I ordered was almost inedible. It came with a layer of fried squid which had been cooked to the point of carbonization. The shrimp and two scallops were fine and the pasta in the middle was attractive. If the squid had been sauteed or the dish had included a broiled fish it would have been OK. The charcoaled squid scattered over the dish were not good. For $35.00 I expect more than what was delivered. I started with a Ceasar salad which was average. Not bad, not worth a noteworthy mention. It contained a number of large lettuce stems. I kind of expected for a higher end restaurant more care would have been taken with the ingredients. At the end of the meal we had tiramisu which was very good. I ordered a coffee which came out tepid. Our waiter took it back and made a new pot of coffee. The second cup brought out was as one would expect for a $4.00 cup. Our server was attentive to keeping our water glasses filled and took our order in a timely manner. The noise level was low enough to be able to carry on a conversation with ease.