Carolina Coffee Shop
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-3617
Phone: (919) 942-6875
- Price:
- $$
- Hours:
- Tue-Sun 9am-10pm
Editorial Review for Carolina Coffee Shop – by Alice Bumgarner
In Short
This college institution looks charming but well used, with ageless brick walls, wooden floors, decrepit chandeliers and wooden booths. True to its collegiate nature, breakfast is served until 2pm; eggs benedict and Belgian waffles pack in students and game-day alums.
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User Reviews for Carolina Coffee Shop
09/20/2008 Posted by footsy
The Coffee Shop was for years our place to take out-of-towners or for a comfortable dinner with friends before crossing the street to the Varsity Theater. The place had an interesting & changing menu with innovative items (trout was always interesting). It "feel" was old, local, comfortable, established, historic (since 1926). No more. Apparently the business plan has changed to attract UNC students. Last night we entered to hear muzak from the 60s and current. The menu is almost all burgers, sandwiches and a few salads (there are daily entrees, but none last night were appealing). My Coffee House Club Turkey was an acceptable turkey sandwich, but it was not a club sandwich, and it offered only modest amounts of turkey, bacon, lettuce & tomato (at $8, it was overpriced and not really as good as Arby's). My wife's grilled tuna sandwich was ordered with whole wheat bread came in a hamburger bun, and the tuna was dry. The pecan pie was indeed very good - better, my wife said, than her own recipe. But from now on, if we eat downtown it will be (gasp!) at Spanky's because of their wider menu (or Pepper's for pizza). And if we take out-of-towners to Franklin Street, we'll stick with Top of the Hill.
06/11/2008 Posted by gfw1253
BEST BURGER - The Hot Bacon Provolone Cheeseburger with onion!! Cozy atmosphere, a little pricey but nice!
Pros: cozy and quaint - a real college town atmosphere
Cons: no parking for call-in pick ups! But if you have a friend to drive around while you run in, it's worth it.
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