Some restaurants chase trends like a dog chasing its tail, but the Carolina Coffee Shop in Chapel Hill has been doing the same thing right for over a century, and that’s exactly why you need to visit.
This place has been feeding hungry Tar Heels since the Roaring Twenties, which means it’s older than sliced bread (literally, that wasn’t invented until 1928).
Walking into the Carolina Coffee Shop is like stepping into a time machine, except this one smells like bacon and serves biscuits that could make a grown person weep with joy.
The white exterior with its classic signage announces itself proudly on Franklin Street, the beating heart of Chapel Hill, where college students, professors, and locals have been gathering for generations to fuel up before tackling whatever the day throws at them…