Bentley’s Restaurant

Bentley’s is the French leaning fine dining restaurant and steakhouse at Piedmont Row in SouthPark, formerly Bentley’s on 27 in Uptown. Tableside service survives here from another era. Dover sole gets filleted at the table and bananas foster is flamed in the dining room. Regulars call the steak tartare the best they have had anywhere. Service here is the point. Piedmont Row parking sits in the garage below, and weeknights are the easier reservation. It is the most old fashioned dinner available in Charlotte, and that is exactly why people book it.

What to know

• Steaks, local seafood, scallops and veal fill out the menu.
• The wine list is expansive and worth lingering over.
• An anniversary creme brulee appears unasked.
• On a quiet night the room can feel empty.
• The restaurant is closed on Sunday.