Optimist Hall

Optimist Hall is the food hall inside a converted 1890s textile mill on North Brevard Street in Optimist Park, just north of Uptown. More than a dozen vendors share a long central hall with communal seating, so a group can split up and eat different things at one table. Coffee, ramen, burgers, dumplings and ice cream cover most of what a mixed table wants, and the building itself is worth seeing for the restored brick and timber.

What to know

• Harriet’s Hamburgers and Undercurrent Coffee are among the anchor vendors.
• The hall runs from breakfast through late evening seven days a week.
• Parking sits in a lot beside the building and fills on weekend evenings.
• The Blue Line’s Parkwood station is a short walk away.