Best New Restaurants in Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill Triangle, 2022 | Eater Carolinas

"Perhaps Raleigh’s most-anticipated restaurant opening of 2024, and now a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best New Restaurant. Helmed by former Poole’s chef-de-cuisine David Ellis, Figulina focuses on handcrafted pasta as the vehicle to explore local ingredients and Southern cuisine. There’s a nori bucatini with crab, chili, and black garlic, rigatoni with braised sweet potato, and cappelleti with short ribs and mushroom conserva. Pastas pair with a small plates menu of items such as lamb rillette and charred savoy cabbage. The cocktail menu is heavily influenced by Italian amari, and the wine menu is pulled together by local photographer and Italian wine expert Jeff Bramwell." - Matt Lardie