Another new restaurant is coming to Carrboro. Tandem, serving modern American cuisine, will open Friday.
Tandem replaces Cafe Symmetry.
The restaurant will serve dinner during their Grand Opening weekend. Tandem is open from 5 PM until 10:30 PM on Friday and Saturday. They will be open from 5 PM until 9 PM on Sunday.
Their regular hours begin on Tuesday, April 13. Tuesday and Wednesday 11 AM to 10 PM, with the bar open late night. Thursday and Saturday 11 AM to 10:30 PM with the bar open late night. Sunday, Tandem will be open from 10:30 AM to 9PM.
The restaurant is the brainchild of Younes Sabouh and Emma Dunbar. They worked together for four years at Chapel Hill’s City Kitchen.
Chef Younes hails from Morocco and learned from the finest French chefs throughout Europe before moving to the Triangle to work for Scott Crawford at Herons Restaurant at The Umstead in Cary. Most recently he was Executive Chef and created the menu at City Kitchen in Chapel Hill for Giorgio’s Restaurant Group. Emma Dunbar has an equally impressive resume in front of the house, working for two world-class hotel groups before being named GM at City Kitchen.
Visit Tandem’s website for more.
Another nearby nightlife destination in Carrboro, The Station, reopened on Thursday.
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