Your Guide to Pinehurst Dining
Best Restaurants at Pinehurst Resort
By Alex Podlogar
You don’t have to be a golfer to enjoy a wide variety of delectable dining offerings as your heart and tastes aspire. Plan to stay awhile.
It’s not just the food that fuels Pinehurst Resort’s executive chef Thierry Debailleul, affectionately known as “Chef T.”
For all the myriad of dishes and cocktails on a menu, for all the choices that run from bountiful breakfasts to casual lunches to fine dining to nightcaps, it’s the natural setting that inspires him.
“That’s the beauty of Pinehurst,” Debailleul says. “We’re not a high-rise tower. We’re not stuck downtown. We’re kind of in a semi-wilderness in the pines, and I think it’s fun to utilize that and express that for a lot of people.”
Have lunch at Pinehurst’s main clubhouse. In The Deuce, a pub with large windows that open behind the bar and onto the club’s east veranda, diners breathe in the pine-scented breeze while overlooking the 18th green of famed Pinehurst No. 2. Choose from casual entrees like Southern salads, burgers and handhelds.
“What’s important, as we have a lot of casual restaurants, is that there’s something unique in every one of them,” Debailleul says. “Every dish is uniquely made. We don’t have the same burgers everywhere, the same Reubens everywhere.
“You can be rushing between two rounds of golf, but whatever we can do to make your lunch special, we’ll do it. The speed of service will be phenomenal, the burger will be amazing, everything cooked to order, spot on. That’s what we’re after. It’s always an experience.”
Pinehurst Brewing Company is more than just its 10 beers brewed on-site; it’s a smokehouse full of options.
Just up the hill inside The Manor, the North & South Bar is a whiskey and bourbon bar unlike any spot in Pinehurst, with more than 70 spirits along with traditional and inspired cocktails on the menu.
“To be in culinary, you have to be passionate. You have to have a love for it,” says Chef T. Cooking is not an act of feeding yourself — it’s an experience.”
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