Caroline’s Oyster Bar

Caroline’s Oyster Bar is the oyster bar and seafood restaurant at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Uptown. It carries one of the largest review counts of any restaurant in Charlotte, with a rating that has held near perfect across thousands of visits. Oysters come from the Northeast, and people who grew up in Boston vouch for them. The kitchen also turns out skillet biscuits with honey butter that people talk about afterward. The room is comfortable enough for a long evening, and the bar seats fill first with people who came for a dozen oysters and stayed for three. Service stays warm even when it is busy.

What to know

• Oysters Rockefeller, clam chowder and crab hush puppies fill out the menu.
• Happy hour makes a hotel menu genuinely approachable.
• Servers have been known to bring an umbrella out in the rain.
• It keeps late hours every night, which is rare for Uptown seafood.
• Dietary restrictions get handled without any fuss.