Our website has been profiled in the new issue of Durham Magazine, the Foodie issue!

Pick up a copy, and you will learn the history of how RPP and YAR started Carpe Durham (including their and some of our real names–ooh, ahh!), the basic premise behind how a restaurant gets written up (it’s not complicated, folks), and how you—the active, opinionated, and fantastic readers and commentators here—have made this site a success.
In addition to some of our regular bloggers’ thoughts, comments by Lysistrata, 9/9, and burgeoningfoodie on …

I have often been disappointed by Restaurant Week meals, but if you pick well there are some excellent deals.  Plus, sometimes it’s good to have an excuse to try something new (and, perhaps, even make a trip to Raleigh).
http://www.trirestaurantweek.com/

Places like Bullock’s are what Carpe Durham is all about to me. If you can swing by today, or any other day, I’m sure they’d love to see you.
I received this email in my inbox this morning so sorry for the late notice.
“I just wanted to give you an update on what is happening with Bullock’s BBQ.  Tommy’s business has suffered through this presumptive salmonella issue…to the tune of an 80% drop in customers and cancellation of almost all of his catering …

Great news for East Durham residents: TROSA’s grocery store at 2104 Angier Ave. is opening May 13th.   Mayor Bell will cut the ribbon at a ceremony beginning at 11:30am.

Now that the weather’s getting gorgeous, we had a request to put together some names of restaurants and eateries that have outside dining available. I’m not sure why sitting outside while we eat is so gosh-darn appealing—but it is. So without further ado, here is our list of outdoor dining locations, compiled by the oh-so-scientific method of asking contributors to send in some choices and note anything they thought might be helpful in relation to the outside section and that specific spot. If the name is hyperlinked, it goes to …

And by “hiring” I mean we are still actively seeking volunteers to spend their valuable time contributing to Carpe Durham and help keep this community alive.  We are grateful to our existing community contributors, but would like to add several more to increase the posting volume.  In particular, we hope people that are interested in exploring the cheaper dining options will get involved.  Please contact us if you are interested.  There is no time commitment or high level of expertise needed (really, if we could do it, anyone can!).
In other …

We temporarily disabled the George’s Diner post until we can come up with a system to deal with the comment abuse on that post.  Stay tuned.

Adam heads to Backyard BBQ Pit, Wimpy’s, and participates in the Doughman Relay.
Wednesday, Sep. 2 at 10pm on the Travel Channel.

We have long felt that the user comments are the most valuable part of Carpe Durham.  Because we did not want to discourage participation, when we redesigned the site to include user registration, we left anonymous commenting enabled.  That being said, we recognize that comments on the Internet have the potential to greatly impact (for better or worse) the reputation of local businesses.  To balance accountability and anonymity, within the next few days we plan to implement a new feature displaying the IP address of those users commenting without a …

I just came home from Whiskey.

That sentence just feels good to type.