Restaurants in Matthews

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At both Charlotte locations, 1900 Mexican Grill's chefs grill up chicken for sizzling fajitas, prepare jumbo burritos, and craft classic Mexican dishes. The kitchen also prepares specialty entrees such as pan-seared snapper in an olive-and-tomato salsa, which diners can pair with a refreshing margarita.

Crafting each dish from scratch, Saffron's head chef Hari Kesavan marries the tradition of northern Indian recipes with Western fusion fare to deliver a diversely seasoned menu. Diners can prep palates with flavorful appetizers such as tandoori shrimp ($9.95), a poppadom basket flush with garlic-and-chili shrimp baked in a clay oven. The menu's Avant-Garde collection, named for its original font, boasts ensembles such as marinated lamb and portobello mushrooms simmering in lamb nazakat's almond sauce ($18.95), and the vegetarian selection supplies herbivores with spinach-laced homemade cheese in palak paneer ($12.95). Tossed in a rich tomato-and-butter sauce, tandoor-baked chicken tikka masala ($13.95) is among the most popular entrees due to its luscious taste and habit of shielding patrons' plates from stabbing forks and knives.

Though bagels were originally introduced to America in 1893 to eradicate cream cheese, bagels had no natural predator in the wild and soon began to overpopulate the land. Help undo the eco-damage of this deliciously doughy pest with today's deal: for $7, you get $15 toward all menu items at Owen's Bagel and Deli. Owen's is open every day in Dilworth's South End from 6:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., so get there before the clock strikes four and all the bagels spontaneously lose their holes.

Zizi’s serves up a menu of 100% vegan provender, including meat stand-ins such as lentil burgers and seitan steak, and veggie creations made from organic, natural ingredients. A starter of meatless chili nachos kicks off an evening of healthy eats before entrees like the mango tofu arrive bearing sautéed, non-GMO, soy-based sustenance swimming with bell peppers in a tangy red sauce that tastes vaguely of sunshine. Lentils replace ground beef in the gluten-free lentil loaf, served with cauliflower mash and broccoli, and the balsamic portobello reveals its piquant flavors under a balsamic glaze among fire-roasted red peppers and steamed veggies. The carrot cake softens palates with garden-grown confections as sweet but less time-consuming than manually mowing fields of sugar cane with your mouth.

Founded by Jim Noble of Noble's Restaurant renown, the unassuming striped awnings and pale bricks at Rooster’s conceal an unconventional dining interior dominated by a wall of wine on one side and a wall of stuffed roosters on the other. The dinner menu offers Noble's tomato basil bisque ($7) as a soothing opener to a charcuterie sampler ($18) of chicken-liver mousse ($6), house-cured duck ($7), house-smoked salmon ($8), and other cured delicacies. Gourmands with a taste for heartier fare can skip ahead to sweet potato gnocchi with hazelnut pesto ($10), rib-eye filet ($22), or spitfire-roasted Carolina BBQ pork shoulder ($9) served with a side of Anson Mills grits with bacon ($6). All entrees pair well with assorted mushrooms fresh from the woods ($10), fire-roasted asparagus fresh from the garden ($7), artisanal cheese fresh from the artisanal cheese tree.