Life and Real Estate in Chapel Hill and the Triangle ~Spartacus Restaurant

Besides being a day to visit construction sites and look at Triangle real estate Sunday is a good day to go out to lunch. The Triangle, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill was written up in the November issue of Bon Appetite as the "Americas next culinary hot spot in the country" citing "reinvigorated downtown areas, rising star chefs, and local farms.".

Although not one of the ten restaurants profiled, one of our favorites is the Sunday buffet at Spartacus http://www.spartacusrestaurant.com/index.php in Durham. 

 We like to get there at 12:00 when it opens. It's usually a family affair for us with my daughter and husband, sister, brother in law and their children along with who ever might be in town visiting. It's also a family affair for the owners, the Kalfas family. Mrs. Kalfas thought it was pretty funny that I wanted to take pictures of the food.

I can't even begin to remember everything on the buffet. We started out with salads including chickpea, orzo, potato, pasta, green bean, Greek, tomato and cucumber, shrimp with cocktail sauce,stuffed grape leaves and, of course, hummus and Tzadziki. Here's a picture of the salads.

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After a short break we went on to the entrees. This week there were three fish dishes,  salmon with dill cream sauce, fried sea bass and grilled sea bass, steamed mussels, mousaka (with meat and without), grilled lemon chicken, gyro lamb, several kinds of pastas with seafood and cream sauces, and spanakopita. There were also lots of different vegetables, potatoes and rice. I'm sure I left some dishes out but you get the idea...

 I almost forgot desert: Petite Baklava and Galactobureko(Custard baked in phyllo dough with cinnamon and honey and rice pudding.

After THAT lunch we wanted a nap but needed exercise so we headed over to the flea market at the NC State Fairgrounds and spent the rest of the beautiful afternoon. I'll fill you in on the flea market another time.