If you don’t know Ethiopian food, expect rich meat or vegetable dishes served on and with spongy sourdough flatbread called injera. There’s a short menu of things like mole, menudo, and excellent tacos, but tamales are the main event, with fillings that range from chicken to cheese to pork. But take a seat at the bar, and the women who run it will hurry out of the kitchen. This little restaurant is so spare and simple, you might think it’s not even open. Save room for Bosnian coffee, served in a copper pot with a square of Turkish delight to hold between your teeth as you sip.Īt Euro Grill & Café, order Bosnian coffee, served with a square of Turkish delight. Both are served with a tasty flatbread called lepinja and the traditional sauces: ajvar (roasted red peppers) and kajmak (a creamy, milk-based spread). You can’t miss the sign at this Bosnian market with a tiny café on the side: “House of Cevaps.” The short, stubby sausages are a specialty, but so is the spicy Bosnian sausage. Surprise touch: Your check arrives with a little plate of Vietnamese cookies. Don’t miss the bahn xeo, a crispy egg pancake crispy-soft tofu with garlic and pineapple fried rice served in a pineapple half. Today, it’s known for owner Dan Nguyen, who always remembers repeat customers, and for the menu of more than 130 classics. One of Charlotte’s oldest Vietnamese restaurants, Lang Van opened in 1990. You’ll find many more restaurants than we can list here, but this guide will give you a taste of international Charlotte.Ĭentral Avenue has long been Charlotte’s most diverse corridor, attracting residents and restaurants from around the world. These neighborhoods are a good place to start. Which means that if you want to explore the city’s diverse food scene, you’ll need to get in your car - and be ready to venture into some holes-in-the-wall. The result is a mingling of ethnicities, like a mix of ingredients in a salad.
Instead, what you’ll find is what Charlotte historian Tom Hanchett has dubbed “the salad-bowl suburbs”: People are moving into areas with affordable housing and reasonable rates for commercial spaces, not distinct neighborhoods. But how do you find them? Single districts where people group together by nationality are more common in older cities - this isn’t something that happens much in younger cities with newer immigrant populations, like Charlotte. Today, there are dozens of international restaurants across the city. It also means that Charlotte is becoming a very diverse place to eat. All of that diversity - racial, ethnic, and national - helps feed Charlotte’s economic success, Simmons says. Asian countries are well-represented in Charlotte, too: People from India are the largest sector, but other countries of origin include Vietnam, China, and Korea. That’s followed by people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Colombia. photograph by Tim Robisonīy far the biggest international population in Charlotte, Simmons says, are people from Mexico. Chow down on Korean-style wings and bao buns at Hawkers Asian Street Fare in Charlotte’s South End neighborhood.
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