Restaurants in Davidson

Owner Ronald LeBreton brings more than three decades of New England–area restaurant expertise to the menu at Joe Fish Casual Seafood. Diners sink teeth into haddock sandwiches, chargrilled mahi-mahi and salmon, or handmade crab cakes. Servers ferry plates of fresh seafood, steaks, and pasta to high-top bar tables or seats on the canopied outdoor patio.

Torch-like chandeliers and sconces flicker above pristine white table linens inside the dining room of Sangam Indian Cuisine. Waitstaff transport plates of delicately spiced lamb, vegetables, and seafood baked in clay ovens, deep-fried, stuffed with fruit and nuts, or topped with garlic according to traditional North Indian recipes. An all-you-can-eat lunch buffet fills chafing dishes with regional specialties made from vegetables, meats, and lentils, and fills minds with ideas for how to use up the lifetime supply of naan they won in the lottery.

Owner Garmon Moore and the team of chefs at Hole in the Wall Crab Shack pile plates high with in-the-shell blue crab legs and crab cakes made with lump meat, brought in from the Carolina coast weekly. House-made lemonade washes down tender helpings of made-to-order fare, including garlic crabs, tilapia sandwiches, and sides of hushpuppies.

Inside the brightly decorated restaurant, chefs re-imagine Mexican plates with California-style touches. Surprising ingredients pepper Baja Soul's entire menu, including tucking caramelized red onions into steak tacos. The fish tacos—a house specialty—reflect the cross-border fusion, especially the Negra Modelo fish, battered in Negra Modelo and topped with refreshing pico de gallo and chipotle crema. Adventurous chefs remix spices and flavors in a sextet of house-made salsas, such as the piña-fire flavor brewed from roasted habañero chilies and sweetened with grilled pineapple.

Behind the full bar stocked with imported and craft beers, mixologists season mojitos with freshly pressed guarapo, or sugar-cane extract, and pour house-made margaritas and shots of premium tequilas. While servers whip up tableside guacamole, diners can play with interactive touchscreen booths that stream music and videos.