Albertine

Albertine is the Mediterranean inspired fine dining restaurant from Joe and Katy Kindred, the husband and wife team behind Kindred in Davidson, Hello, Sailor on Lake Norman and the all day cafe Milkbread. It sits inside Duke Energy Plaza on South Tryon in Uptown, and it is the restaurant the Kindreds built for the big nights.

The room is elegant and cosmopolitan without tipping into stiff, and the menu is meant to be explored rather than ordered straight through. The Kindred group’s next project is a steakhouse in Mooresville, which says something about how far this restaurant family has come from a single dining room in Davidson.

What to know

• Start in the meze section, share a pasta, then pick an entree from the grill.
• The menu is seasonal and changes with it.
• Inside Duke Energy Plaza in Uptown; the Blue Line’s Stonewall and 3rd Street stops are both close.
• The restaurant most Charlotteans name when asked where to celebrate something.