These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: Charlotte, NC

Hey everyone,

Last weekend we traveled over to Charlotte, North Carolina for the first time ever as a belated Christmas gift to Madi and Valentines Day gift to each other. We had such a good time! Madi describes Charlotte as an “in between” city, meaning it’s bigger than Tampa but smaller than Chicago. It was the perfect size to safely walk around and explore. Not ever having been there, there was plenty to see and do! Here are our few of our favorite things from the Buzz City:

1) Midwood Smokehouse

Talk about some good old southern barbecue! This place was a delicious spot for lunch! I thought it was decently priced, and would have been a good dinner place too but was a little ways out of the city, and we didn’t want to have to move our car once we parked it downtown. Definitely recommend the Mac & Cheese! YUM!

2) Amelie’s Bakery

This cute little French coffee, sandwich and pastry shop was a great find! Open late (which worked well with our schedule this trip) and a wide selection of goodies made me want to bust out my big girl pants and eat all night! I settled for splitting a small cake slice with Madi though ;) (yes he actually ate half!)

3) Fahrenheit

Y’all. This was my favorite part of the trip! It’s a rooftop bar/restaurant that is free to go up and just chill on the patio and watch the sunset. They don’t ID until after 7pm, which in the winter is just before the perfect time to watch the sunset.

4) The Green Park

A cute little park that would be perfect for just hanging out, sipping a coffee or smoothie, or reading a book on the lawn. I love the tribute to books! 

5) The Original Pancake House

Oh. My. Lanta. This place is the bomb. Definitely one of the best priced breakfast places we’ve been to. The omelette was huge! They also have so many different types of pancakes and everything we ate was so delicious!

There were plenty more good eats and places we could have explored while in Charlotte, but these were our favorite of what we got to do for our first trip! We did also go to a Hornets game to watch Duke player Luke Kennard play some minutes for the Pistons vs Hornets game, which was super fun too! If you know of anywhere good to go to eat or fun things to do that we missed out on let us know! I will be heading back to Charlotte for sure in the New Year to see Justin Timberlake (whoop whoop!!) with some of my friends. 

Thanks for keeping up,
- Olivia