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A Preview of The Mint

RALEIGH, NC - A new upscale restaurant, The Mint at One Exchange Plaza, is coming to Fayetteville Street in downtown Raleigh. The long-awaited opening for this chic dining venue is scheduled for winter 2007.

With 8,500-square-feet, The Mint of One Exchange Plaza is poised to be a culinary jewel worthy of its prestigious downtown address. Featuring contemporary Southern cooking with global influences, the entrée and a la carte menus will include delicious seafood and prime cuts of beef, pork and lamb. Guests will have the option to eat in the beautifully decorated dining room, outside in the spacious, 65-seat courtyard or just relax in the M-Bar.

From the exterior architecture to the interior design, The Mint at One Exchange Plaza is a work of art years in the making. It will anchor Raleigh's entertainment destination at Fayetteville Street. The convenient location is an extensively renovated site that transforms an old marble bank into a dining retreat.

Raleigh Restaurant Group, owner of The Mint at One Exchange Plaza, is bringing to the highly anticipated downtown revitalization effort a cosmopolitan restaurant that includes fascinating elements of the former bank. The Mint's entryway will incorporate the bank's six-ton vault door. Lead glass screens from the bank's lobby, believed to be from the early 1980s, will be blended into the architectural design. And the restaurant's name itself pays homage to the bank of yesteryear.

"The Mint will be an incredible addition to the downtown revitalization that Fayetteville Street is experiencing," says Peter Ryan. Mr. Ryan of Restaurant Solutions, is a Myrtle Beach-based consultant for restaurant startups who is working with the Raleigh Restaurant Group. "It will be open for lunch and dinner, thereby enhancing the after-work and weekend appeal that will keep the area bustling."