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Downtown Cary's new daytime cafe

Downtown Cary's new daytime cafe

+ Dix Park's future market, March and April planner

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Mar 07, 2025
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Hi y’all. I arrived home on a flight late Wednesday night and spotted signage for Oscar Diaz’s Adios! near Gate C17.

It’s yet another local chef with a RDU outpost in Terminal 2. Adios! will have Mexican-meets-southern food like cornmeal hush puppies, fresh citrus cocktails and a birria platter featuring “banana leaf braised beef with traditional spices.”

🛬 The estimated time of opening is fall 2025.

I’m curious — who else would you want to see open a RDU location? Reply and share.

Keep scrolling for:

  • Faulisi’s next act

  • Why Dix Park’s future market might be like Downtown Cary Park’s market

  • Catch up on the news

  • March + April events, just for paid subscribers

Thanks for being here! ✌️Sarah Day


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THE ENTHUSIAST

Faulisi Caffe & Enoteca

ICYMI, Pizzeria Faulisi in Downtown Cary recently re-opened as a daytime cafe with coffee, breakfast and lunch items.

  • It’s now open 9-3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

The vibes: Order at the counter then tuck in to warm red booth seating as jazz plays in the background. This is a spot to linger with friends and enjoy, not a coffeeshop to bring your laptop.

  • It was a nice option when I had family in town visiting on Friday morning.

Don’t miss: The mocha, made with Escazu chocolate.

  • We also ordered “one long biscotti” each and I tasted hazelnuts and pistachio in the chocolate cookie.

What else: You can also get coffee or a selection of Italian-style baked goods to go, and I’m planning to return to try out the lunch menu of salads and sandwiches on fricaccia.

  • Some Pizzeria Faulisi classics are on the menu like margherita pizza and gnocchi.

  • Pizza is on the Saturday brunch menu.

Enoteca translates to “wine shop,” and a selection of bottles are priced on one side of the cafe when you walk in. Nighttime wine events are on the horizon:

  • The first wine dinner, a four-course pairing with Chateau de la Font du Loup is a reasonably priced $100/each (includes food, beverage and service) on April 2.

Find it: 215 E. Chatham Street, Suite 101, Cary. [more info]


STORYLINES

Dix Park gets a market

The first major project in Dorothea Dix Park is getting close to opening — a live feed shows some playground equipment is up and park benches are installed:

Screenshot of live feed on Friday early afternoon.

And now we know more about what the experience will be like, and it includes a market from the same father and son team who run Downtown Cary Park’s Bark Bar and Market 317, John and Mike Cline.

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The market in the House of Many Porches will be grab-and-go spot next to the playground and picnic areas.

  • Food will include sandwiches, wraps, baked goods, dips and frozen desserts.

  • Coffee, beer and wine will also be available, similar to Downtown Cary Park.

More about the historic renovation: The market will be in the House of Many Porches, a Victorian cottage built in 1898.

  • Other historic renovations at the park include the Stone Houses and Gatekeeper’s Cottage, which added needed public bathrooms and a visitor center in May 2024.

What’s next: The Gipson Play Plaza and the market are expected to open in late April or early May, according to the News & Observer.


THE NEWS DIGEST

Catch up, quick

📚 Raleigh HBCU Saint Augustine’s lost an appeal for accreditation. They have one more chance to stay accredited, INDY Week reports. How we got to this point, also in INDY Week.

🚔 Raleigh’s new chief of police, Rico Boyce, is a veteran of the department who worked up the ranks from recruit in 2000 to deputy chief. [WRAL]

🤘 Red Hat Amphitheater 2.0: A “rock on” hand sculpture, no Shimmer Wall. [N&O]

🍦 Simon Says Dip This, a dipped ice cream shop that originated in Durham, is opening its second location at Bloc 83 today on Hillsborough Street.

🤔 What should DMV site become? Join a working group meeting this month on recommendations for the Southeast Raleigh site. [INDY Week]

🫖 The Littlest Tea Room: I’m looking forward to trying this — a high tea experience at Little Native coffeeshop in Downtown Raleigh. [Axios]


A PLANNER’S PLANNER

To do list for March + April

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