Award winning Tupelo Honey Cafe is coming to Charlotte.  The Asheville based restaurant is going to fill the former Pewter Rose location in Southend.  Restaurants located on the 2nd floor of buildings generally have a tough time but if anybody can pull it o

Luciano's has opened in Southend.  We have chronicled the many delays and postponements this restaurant encountered but good things come to those that wait.  Initial reports are Luciano's has great food and outstanding service at a reasonable price point. 

  In what has become the slowest build out and opening in recent Charlotte restaurant history, Luciano's is STILL not open.  We talked to a Luciano's spokesman in Atlanta today and we were told that they would be opening in a couple of weeks.  Restaura

I drive by Luciano's at least twice a day and hope to see a now open sign but sadly every day I am disappointed.  I have no idea what is taking this place so long to open the doors.  I can see the construction stickers still on the windows.  For those of y

Better late than never the saying goes.  Well Luciano's has finally set a tentative opening date of "sometime in late March" according to a spokesman we talked to last week.  Luciano's is going into the former La Paz site on South Boulevard right next to Su

Taco Bell is going to launch Cool Ranch Taco's according to their CEO Greg Creed.  Cool Ranch is a flavor of Doritos.  The Doritos Locos Taco was the biggest launchfor any product in Taco Bell history.  They are hoping lightning will strike twice.  Cool R

I hate to give my Restaurant Traffic colleagues too much credit but since I have known them it seems like they are involved in virtually every restaurant deal in Charlotte.  Adam Williams and David Tschirhart who in their day job at Legacy Real Estate Adviso

Vinnie's Raw Bar in Southend has closed down.  They had a 20 year run.  Vinnie's was a good old fashioned dive bar that featured daily dollar beer specials and pretty good seafood.  They had attractive servers and bartenders and were pioneers in Southend.Â

When I found out today that the New Orleans Hornets were switching their nickname to the Pelicans I just had to go find a Big Easy restaurant here in the Queen City.  I took Legacy colleague Rodney Faulkner, who we call the mayor because he knows everybody,

Luciano's Ristorante Italiano has had some bumps in the road in trying to open.  They were scheduled to open several months ago but due to some ill fated delays are still in the construction phase.  Restaurant Traffic stopped in to check on how the construc