An early streetcar suburb east of Uptown, laid out along Central Avenue and The Plaza. Bungalows, a dive bar that has outlasted everything around it, a former church turned restaurant, and the tattoo shops and record stores that came with the rents. It has gentrified hard and kept more of its own character than most Charlotte neighborhoods managed.
One of Charlotte's oldest vegan restaurants, in an unassuming building off Independence Boulevard, with a long menu of fully vegan comfort cooking: barbecue, cheesesteaks, bratwurst, reubens, meatloaf and crab cakes.
Cilantro Noodle is a Vietnamese room on Commonwealth Avenue built around build-your-own fresh rolls and pho, with what its own site calls home style recipes. It is family-run and says so directly: that's Grandma you see in the kitchen. Vegan pho is on the menu.
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