10 Food & Drink in Durham That You Shouldn't Miss

What better way to get to know a place and its people than to eat its food? Offering foodie taste boxes, walking tours, food tours, and virtual chef events. Private and custom boxes and events are available. This is a great way to experience a city, sample its best dishes, and feel like an insider! Enjoy a vibrant food and drink scene that celebrates independent restaurants and locally-sourced ingredients.

Walk. Talk. Taste. Sip. - The original walking tour. Explore the Triangle one food tour at a time. Don't just see the city...taste it! An exciting way to sample the sights, sounds and tastes of the Triangle. Enjoy one of our guided walking food tours in Raleigh, Chapel Hill & Carrboro, Durham or Cary. We also offer private tours for small businesses, nonprofits and corporate customers. Call us.

Since its inception, Durham Distillery has been rethinking how to make great spirits that both embody and pioneer the New South. The answer: equal parts art and science. The result: world-class gins and liqueurs that put the New South on the map Award winning gins and liqueurs. Named North Carolina Distillery of the Year at the New York International Spirits Competition.

Welcome to Graybeard Distillery! Come tour the distillery for a behind-the-scenes look at how we get all that magic into a bottle of our flagship spirit, Bedlam Vodka. Learn more about how we bring in non-GMO rice from small co-ops in Arkansas, and have your mind blown with the distillation process we have pioneered with our state-of-the-art equipment. Don’t forget to taste test along the way!

Hop on our lounge on wheels and visit local breweries, distilleries, cideries, and meaderies on our all-inclusive bus tours! We include a meal from a local restaurant on each tour. Discover the unique styles and flavors of the South, including regional ingredients like muscadine grapes, persimmon, and paw paws. Tour behind the scenes and get exclusive access to the brewers and distillers who create these amazing craft beverages. Choose from our public tours or customize your experience with a private tour. Ride to each stop in luxury on our 15-passenger bus, equipped with coolers and limo seating – ideal for making friends with your new drinking companions. You’ll have a driver and a tour guide for the entire day - everyone is a VIP on our tours. The atmosphere is casual and unpretentious, so whether you’re a craft beer lover or just beer-curious, you’ll feel comfortable and entertained. Grab your tickets before the next tour sells out!

Honeygirl Meadery is a small urban meadery located in downtown Durham NC. We ferment with local and global true source honey, and local fruits, flowers and herbs, to make artisanal meads (honey-wines). Visitors can enjoy a mead tasting, flight or glass in our tasting room Thursday through Sunday. Bottle sales are also available. Meads are seasonal and availability changes throughout the year. Check our company website for the current mead line-up. In addition to making and selling our meads, we support efforts to benefit honeybees and other pollinators - we sponsor a beehive with Bee Downtown, and volunteer on the committee for Bee City Durham. COVID-19 UPDATE: We are open for service and outdoor seating only Friday - Sunday. Outside seating is weather dependent - check our Facebook page for regular updates. We are open for curbside pick-up Wednesday - Sunday. Preorder online in our website shop for pick-up.

The BULL doesn't play by the rules. Hard cider doesn't have to be sickeningly sweet and taste artificial. Our ciders are made with 100% apple juice and never back-sweetened with high fructose corn syrup, so you taste the apple in all its glory! Gluten-free yeast and ingredients ensure a naturally gluten-free cider. We're crafting unique ciders that bridge the gap between wine and beer. Honey, black tea, hops, ginger, tart cherries, bacon, candy corn and hibiscus allow us to redefine cider. The BULL is bucking the trend of mainstream ciders. Taste the revolution!