August 21 is the day when supreme coolness hits Cary’s Booth Amphitheater. G. Love and Special Sauce will be playing along with The John Butler Trio. Tickets are $27.50 advance, $29 day of show, and go on sale May 17 at 10am at Ticketmaster outlets. Lawn chairs and blankets are allowed.
The Booth Amphitheater will bring in three of the biggest acts of the 90’s. Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, and Live are coming on August 16. Tickets are $60 reserved, $30 lawn, and go on sale May 9 at 10am. Lawn chairs and blankets are allowed, but the crowd will likely be SRO.
Wilco is coming to Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre on August 8. The presale for tickets begins at 10:00am this morning. General public tickets go on sale Friday.
Ben Folds will be rockin’ the suburbs come May 30th. The concert will be at 7pm at Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre. Lawn chairs and blankets will be allowed. Tickets go on sale May 1 at Noon and are $37.50 reserved, and $25 lawn
The Regeneration Tour will be making its way to Cary’s Booth Amphitheatre on August 27. The acts appearing are ABC, A Flock of Seagulls, Naked Eyes, The Human League, and Belinda Carlisle. No word on tickets yet.
The Koka Booth Amphitheatre’s season will get started soon. One of their first events of the season is Duran Duran with Your Vegas on May 21. Reserved seats are $65 and lawn seats are $35. Tickets went on sale March 14, but are still available.
Gregory’s restaurant reopened last week in Cary. The restaurant formerly had locations in North Raleigh on Six Forks and in Cary’s Waverly Place, but is now open in the former Fox and Hound location on Kildaire Farms Road. They currently do not have a website, so this is the exclusive online site for the Gregory’s menu (.pdf).
The Town of Cary held an information session on a proposed major road project. The town wants a new underpass that would allow traffic to bypass train delays (that can last up to 25 minutes) in downtown Cary. The $15 million project includes extending Walker Street 1,200 feet from its current end at Cedar Street northwards to Chapel Hill Road, installation of a grade-separated railroad crossing, and realignment of cross streets. The project is expected to be complete in early 2011.
Cary’s location of Mamma Mia has closed. The Apex location will remain open, however. This is one of many, many restaurants to fail in this location at Cary Pkwy and High House. The 1991 has already housed 3 restaurants: Mamma Mia, Chuck ‘em, and Jaspers. I’m always intrigued by seemingly good locations that have much turnover.
VarmintBites is reporting that Phil Evans has left Herons restaurant in the Umstead hotel. The restaurant recently earned 4-star honors from Mobil.
Cary’s Umstead Hotel (official site) has been awarded 4-star status by the Mobil Travel Guide. The hotel joins other North Carolina hotels receiving 4-star status such as Asheville’s Inn on Biltmore Estate and Richmond Hill Inn, Charlotte’s Ballantyne Resort, and Pinehurst’s Carolina Hotel. The Fearrington House Country Inn was the state’s only 5-star designee.
Heron’s restaurant (in The Umstead) (official link) also received a 4-star designation. It joins other North Carolina restaurants such as the Carolina Crossroads in Chapel Hill, Charlotte’s Gallery Restaurant, and Pittsboro’s Fearrington House Restaurant. 162 restaruants received the award nationally. No restaurants in the state were among the 17 national 5-star award winners.
According to Mobil:
It seems like an oxymoron—gourmet dining in a suburban hotel, but Herons at the Umstead Hotel is an exception. Tucked inside a large hotel in Cary, a suburb of Raleigh/Durham, Herons puts a Southern spin on American cuisine in a fashionable setting complete with a 2500-bottle wine cellar. The food is seriously good, but far from serious, and there’s even a spa menu designed for those participating in the hotel’s spa program. Of course, decadence is also available, beginning with the restaurant’s homemade cinnamon bun French toast with brown sugar streusel at breakfast and ending with the luscious brownie sundae baked Alaska.
The prestigious 4-star award is the latest for the upscale hotel developed by SAS’ Jim Goodnight. The hotel won 5-Diamond honors by AAA recently.
The rerouting of Cary’s Walnut and Holly Springs roads has created another major intersection (for the creation of another brick strip mall and full compliment of stand-alone pharmacies). The intersection’s NW corner features a new shopping center named Tryon Village. The lineup so far is a pretty nice one for a shopping center of its size:
About 2/3 of the center is leased, and it will interesting to see what Harris Teeter, Yoho, and Breugger’s do for the area. (map it)
