The parking lot at Poole’s in Raleigh, North Carolina tells a story written in license plates from states you’d need a map to locate.
These aren’t tourists who stumbled upon the place by accident while visiting the state capital.
These are dedicated food lovers who planned entire trips around a single dish, which sounds extreme until you taste what they came for and realize they’re actually the reasonable ones.
The restaurant occupies a former pie shop in downtown Raleigh, and the building seems to understand its purpose in life: to house a place where people gather to eat really, really good food…