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I recently met a group of friends at Hot Point Cafe, in North Hills Mall. It’s a brightly lit cafe offering a wide selection of food at very reasonable prices. I ordered the Crab Cake Salad, above, for only $6.25. It was a really huge meal and this was only the small size. The crab cake was very good and contained a decent percentage of crab meat. The salad was unexpectedly spicy, but not excessively so. The menu did mention “green demon pesto”, so I should have guessed. As you can see, the salad had a lot of parmesan cheese and sesame-ginger salad dressing, which someone more health conscious than I might consider asking to be placed on the side.
This is the catfish quesadilla, which was the meal of choice for the author of North Hills Buzz. It looked very impressive, as you can see.
This was a small Greek Salad, for $5.95. Again, this was gigantic for the price. You can see from the bright red tomatoes that the ingredients, which also included olives, banana peppers, lettuce, feta cheese, peppers and cucumbers, were very fresh.
The Maximo pizza was topped with Italian sausage, pepperoni, bacon, red onions, green pepper, mushrooms, black olives, mozarella and their homemade red sauce. With all those toppings, it was on the juicy side.
The Marvin the Monster sandwich was layered with smoked turkey breast, roast beef, ham, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and hummus, with Russian dressing. Given its monsterous size, I might have had to have eaten this with a knife and fork, but its owner was able to happily slay it with ease.
Overall, it was a very pleasant dining experience. The next time I go, I’ll want to try out their black bean soup and their Zuni pizza, which is topped with barbecue chicken and onions. It also looks as if it is a good and affordable place to get breakfast, any day of the week.
3 Responses to “Dinner at Hot Point Cafe”
By John F. on May 29, 2008 | Reply
Food looks awesome, great pics! I thought Hot Point was a more upscale expensive restaurant from the outside, never been in. I think I will give it a try.
By rudester on Jun 1, 2008 | Reply
it is an awesome place to eat the food is awesome and the staff rocks man take it from someone who just got here from nyc and spent 15 years in san francisco .. great for raleigh
By Anora McGaha on Sep 4, 2008 | Reply
How about including a link to directions as well as their website… I’m trying to find that… so far, as I go down the google search results, I found this before I found that.
Cheers!