New unlimited premium sushi and sashimi spot in Charlotte 🍣 Mr. Tokyo Premium just opened their first Charlotte location, and premium is the right word for it. This isn't a buffet line. It's an elevated space with everything made to order and brought to your table. Endless sushi, endl

Every October, Conway, SC becomes the City of Halloween. Not a nickname, an actual proclamation. The whole downtown goes all in with decorations, events, and enough pumpkins to make it feel like a movie set. It's the kind of place that's worth the drive, and an easy weekend trip if you p

Prose McCullough Station is in University City, and this one's worth the tour. One beds from $1,250 and two beds from $1,599, base rent. Inside you get full-size washer and dryer, Samsung appliances, walk-in closets, premium plank flooring, and a kitchen island big enough to actually eat at.

Postino just opened in Plaza Midwood and it's dangerously easy to lose three hours here. The menu is made for sharing, starting with their bruschetta boards. Pick four, pass them around, order more. Wine, beer, cocktails and zero-proof cocktails too, so everyone at the table is covered.

Inner Peaks is indoor rock climbing with three locations around the city: South End, NoDa, and Matthews. Perfect when it's cold, raining, or you just want something to do that isn't another bar. Never climbed before? First timers are genuinely their specialty, and the staff walks you thr

Save this one, you'll be coming back to it all month. SCarowinds, select nights through Nov 1 Scarrigan Farms, through Nov 1 Great Elizabeth Pumpkin Wall, Oct 25-Nov 1 Scarecrow Hollow at Daniel Stowe, through Nov 1 Beat the Bomb haunted mission Halloween pop-up bars around the city Ri

If you're moving to Charlotte or deep in the apartment search, Ascent Uptown belongs on your list. Floor to ceiling windows, city lights, and a skyline that does most of the decorating for you. You're in the middle of Uptown with restaurants, bars and both stadiums around you, and sushi

Unlimited sushi and hibachi in Charlotte starting at $16.99 🍣 Magic Sushi does all you can eat sushi AND hibachi, which is not a combo you see often. Lunch is $16.99, dinner is $26.99, and on Saturday and Sunday it's dinner pricing all day. They also have a full vegan and gluten free m

Charlotte Ballet's Black Box Series runs Oct 2-17, and it's a different kind of evening than the usual dinner and drinks. The theater only seats 200, so you're close enough to hear the dancers breathe and land. That's something you just don't get in a big house. Grab dinne

Sauna House is a sauna and cold plunge studio in Charlotte, and it's the reset you didn't know you needed. The routine is simple: sit in the sauna until you're done, drop into the cold plunge, then rest. Do that a few times and you walk out feeling like a different person. It's c

Sea Level NC, and the espresso martini alone is a reason to go. They print a custom image on top of it, so you can put whatever you want on your drink. Order the 5th Street Tower and share it. 18 oysters, chilled mussels, raw clams, shrimp cocktail, and ceviche. Or go the short rib and Chef’s fe

Nalan Indian Cuisine does a full lunch combo, and it's a lot of food. Curry, rice, dal, naan, a samosa, and gulab jamun on one tray. What you can get: Parotta combo with Master's lamb curry Boneless chicken biryani Lasooni dal Malai kofta Butter chicken Madurai goat curry Ghee dos

This one is so fun. Piedmont Town Center is hiding a $1,000 prize package somewhere on the property this Saturday, Sept 26, and the first person to find it wins the whole thing! Here's how it works: the hiding spot gets announced on their Instagram, and then it's a race. Phones out, shoe

Easy Like Sunday has the patio, the pumpkin pancakes, and the seasonal toasts. Weather's finally cooperating too, so. Classics are all there if you're not doing the fall thing yet. Eggs and steak, pancakes, the brunch burger. 📍 Easy Like Sunday, Charlotte Save for your next brunch🤎

FoodieLand is at Charlotte Motor Speedway today and tomorrow. Here's what we got: 🍼 Big Baby Bottle 🧀 Cheese Wheel Pasta 🥤 Cream & Soda 🥢 Lumpia Bucket 🍕 Sushi Pizzeria 🍣 We Bee Rollin 🍯 Hawaiian Honey Cones And that's seven out of 250+ vendors. Plenty more to eat and shop t

The seasonal menu just dropped! 🎃Pumpkin Spice Cheesecake Latte, with cinnamon crunch on top 🥕 Carrot Cake Matcha, with maple spice cream 🍌 Banana Brûlée Latte 🍑 Peach Creamsicle Matcha, with salted bourbon vanilla cold foam 🍫 Snickers Latte 📍 Babaloo Coffee Club, South End Save this

We're giving away 10 tickets to the Charlotte Film Festival. Two winners, five tickets each. Bring your people. CFF runs September 22-27 at the Independent Picture House, and this is year 18. Six days of independent films, filmmaker Q&As, and the kind of festival where you end up talk

Live at Ascent and most of Uptown is a few blocks out. Sushi in the building, coffee shops and bars all around, and restaurants for anything from casual to a real occasion. Panthers and Knights games are minutes from the door. Romare Bearden Park is right there. Free museum nights on Wednesdays

Broadstone West End in FreeMoreWest, and let me walk you through the day. You wake up, coffee on the balcony, skyline right there. Work from the co-work hub downstairs because your apartment isn’t your office. Saturday you’re at the pool. Sunday you’re grilling out by the courtyard. ☀️ ♠️T

Babaloo Coffee Club. Warm browns, soft light, and the kind of space you end up staying in. The drinks are the fun part: Ferrero Rocher coffee Toasted s’mores coffee Miami vice matcha Raspberry white matcha And the Dulce de Leche Pavé is the one to get. Order it even if you weren’t planni