One of the more off the beaten path restaurants in Durham, NC is the Nasher Museum Cafe located inside the Duke University Nasher Museum. Don't be put off that this restaurant is on the Duke University campus. The food is not like any dining hall you have ever been to before. The museum itself is an impressive building with a massive skylight roof.
The Nasher contains a permanent exhibit of ceramics, art and lithographs plus two temporary exhibit halls. When we were there, the temporary exhibits displayed works from North Carolina artists and political expressionism. Both fascinating and highly recommended.
The Nasher Museum Cafe is a recognized 2017 Diners Choice Award and one of America's Top 100 brunch spots. It also features seasonal local ingredients like presented in this delicious butternut squash salad.
The dinner menu changes weekly. The day we were there the host said the menu wasn't even available until closer to 4pm since it was a new week. We enjoyed seafood risotto, lemon linguine and swordfish. All delicious. We started with a cheese plate and a salad. Both very good.
The dessert was a molten lava cake with vanilla bean ice cream. YUM!
The Nasher Museum Cafe is listed on open table, but if the time is not available that you prefer, definitely give them a call and see if they can work out something for you. One quirky sidenote, if you happen to have a Duke student, they can use their food points at the Nasher. For the rest of us, plan to spend about $50 per person. Of course, use a credit card that gives you bonus points for dining like our favorite card the Chase Sapphire Preferred which is offering a whopping 80,000 bonus right now.
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