WHERE TO GO?

...IN DURHAM

BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE WESLEY FELLOWSHIP

A Freshman’s Guide to...

Hey Fellow Dukies,

We here at the Wesley Fellowship welcome you to Duke University. Ori-entation week can be quite an affair, and the tons of activities, speakers, Shooter’s trips, class scheduling, and activity fairs make that first week one of a kind. We hope its a once in a lifetime week.

We wanted to welcome you to campus with a guide to the city of Durham. East Campus is a wonderful place, but many of us. We hope it’ll help.

Warmly,

The Wesley Fellowship

A NOTE From Wesley

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Where to take your parents (or rather where to go when you’re not the one paying). These are the nicer res-taurants that are great for when you’re parents are visiting, a date, or other special occasion.

Nana’s - 2514 University Drive Durham. This restaurant has amazing food for a

bit less than you might expect from other fancy restaurants. The staff are exceedingly friendly, and know the menu top to bot-tom Expect to pay about $20 a plate.

The Fairview at Washington Duke - 3001 Cameron Boulevard. This is a very swanky restaurant with great food, atmosphere, and BEST of all, it takes Food Points! This is a great place to go at the end of the se-mester to blow off your extra food points 4

FoodWesley is the Methodist Fellowship, and thus we know Food. Nearly every event is started with, accompanied, or ended by some type of food. Below you’ll find some of our favorite places to study, eat cheap. take our par-ents, or places to get adventurous. Feel free to check out the list below, but for all your Durham food enquiries, check out CarpeDurham.com. It’s a local blog that has sampled every food truck, cafe, and stand and thus is your best bet to discover Durham’s great selection of food. Also, make sure to sign up for both livingsocial.com and groupon.com, two websites that feature tons of great deals for food and fun in the triangle. They send you an e-mail each day with some really great deals.

Your best places to try out a new restaurant are either, right behind East Campus on Ninth Street. If you’re feeling adventurous journey south on 15-501 and try out the countless restaurants on UNC’s Franklin Street. You’ve got four years to try all the food in America’s Best Place to Eat, this is a small sample!

and reward yourself at the same time. Expect to pay about $30 a plate.

Shammas - located in Brightleaf Square. This restaurant is for the carnivore in you. An all-you-can eat smorgasbord of beef, chicken, and lamb. Make sure you skip a meal before this one, and don’t eat too much of their salad bar! Expact to pay about $30 for the affair.

Maggiano’s - 8030 at Renaissance Shop-ping District at the South Point Mall. This traditional Italian eatery is a great place when you’re craving some traditional and exotic Italian fare. This place is constantly busy, so perhaps not the best place for a date, but with reservations you’ll avoid +90 minute waits. Expect to pay about $20 a plate.

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Cheap EatsBali Hai - 2414 Wake Forest Road. This restaurant is a great place for a large group to spend 6 bucks and get a nice Mongolian stir-fry. Located 100 feet past the end of Ninth Street, going to Bali Hai involves stacking (ever-so-carefully) a variety of meats and veg-gies into a small bowl and then picking a sauce for them to sauté it in. Two bowls is 3 bucks more. Expect to pay about $7 with a drink.

Cosmic Cantina - 1920 (.5) Perry Street. Odds are by the time you’ve read this you’ve already gone to Cos-mic. This place is opened late, tastes great, and is right by the campus. Expect to spend about $7 to fill your stomach.

Honey’s - 2700 Guess Road Durham. Honey’s is the very definition of a greasey spoon restaurant. Open late. Expect to pay about $8 bucks a plate.

Bojangles - All around Durham. Bojangles (oft pronounced Bo HAN gles) is southern chicken at its finest. Make sure to try the Bo-Berry Biscuit and their Sweet-Tea. Expect to pay about $6 a plate.

Study SpotsBlue Coffee Company - Ninth Street Durham. A great, close afternoon or morning study spot. Open Monday-Friday until 5:00. They’ve got great cof-fee, and really comfortable seating.

Francescas - 706B Ninth Street Dur-ham. Francesca’s features an ever-changing selection of gelato and sor-betto - favorite flavors include clove, pumpkin, apple, and peach. Franc-esca’s closes at 11:30 on weekdays and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

The Wellspring Cafe - 621 Broad Street Cafe. Located in the Whole Foods Market, the Wells[ring Cafe has a cafeteria/deli bakery style food, all of which is organic. They’ve got inside and outside seating. They’re open till 9 daily.

Mad Hatter Bake Shop - 1801 W. Main Street, Durham. Mad Hatter’s has a lot of deli sandwiches and soups and such, but almost everyone who walks through their doors is thinking of one thing, desert. Located right by East Campus, they’re open till 9:00 most days.

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Wesley FavoritesElmo’s - 776 Ninth Street Durham. Like Cosmic, you’ve probably already tried this place out. Elmo’s has all-day breakfast, and slightly upscale dinner food. Their are also ducks that you can color and decorate your dorm room with,

Q Shack - 2510 University Drive. Q Shack is the place you go if your idea of “Barbecue” is the Texas kind. Beef instead of pork (but don’t worry they have NC-style pork BBQ too). They have great pork ribs and okra.

Fosters - 2694 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. Owned and operated by Sara Foster, former chef of Martha Stewart, Foster’s comes highly recommended by nearly everyone in Wesley. They have a wide variety of sandwiches and soups. They have both indoor and out-door seating. Try a Saturday morning brunch here when you’re sick of the Marketplace.

Cookout - All around Durham. Open till 4 am, Cookout runs should be early and often. Make sure to try all the dif-ferent flavors of milkshake, and don’t question the pricing.

Food Trucks!Durham is home to a growing num-ber of food trucks. Though they can be anywhere, you’ll soon learn where your favorite can often be parked.

Only Burger - Often parked on East and in the Wannamaker Drive, this truck is known for burgers, fries, and grease. Often surrounded by students leaving a party a bit early, make sure say your order loud and clear with all the noise.

Pie Pushers - Often parked by Motorco or along West Chapel Hill Street, this truck has some of the best Pizza we’ve ever had. Make sure to try their spe-cialty pizza’s , they’re a bit pricey, but phenomenal. Also, make sure to play Mario Cart while you wait!

Local (M)eats - Often parked by Sam’s along Erwin Road, this truck’s clever name describes the truck quite well. Make sure to try their ribs.

Bulkoogi - Always parked out along 15-501 each night, Bulkoogi is great, greasy Korean BBQ. A bit more expen-sive than the others, their portions are better for two than one.

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What to Do

Southpoint Mall, a trip down south down 147 has just about everything you could ask want from a mall. There is Southpoint Cinemas, where your student ID will save you a buck or two. Also, they’ve got an Apple store that services your equipment much faster than the one on Duke’s campus. An afternoon spent in their Barnes&Nobles also is a great way to get away from the hustle and bustle of Duke’s campus.

The CBGB of the South, Cat’s Cradle is one of the best venues we’ve been to. They always have a varied schedule with fair pricing. They’re also a great place to catch acts right before they hit it big. Lo-cated in Carborro, make sure to try the pizza place in the same building.

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What to DoThe Durham Farmer’s Market has been around for over 10 years, and has just about everything you could want from local farm-ers, craftsmen, and wines man. Open from 8-12 on Saturday, and 3:30-6:30 on Wednes-day, its best to get their either really early (when vendors have the widest selection) or really late, when vendors are prone to offer discounts for wares they not want to haul back home. Be sure to come with an empty stomach, as there is always a ton of good food (particularly Scratch Bakery). Plus, if you’re looking for decorations to your dorm room, stores along the street are sure to have some interesting (and cheap) decor.

Home to Durham’s burgeoning mu-sic scene, MotorCo is located right by a great salsa place, and Fullsteam Brewery. They’ve got a great bar, cheap prices, and some really great local talent nearly every weekend. Be sure to grab something from one of the many foodtrucks that are sure to be surrounding the place.

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Seasonal Fun

Pick Strawberries! Right outside of Durham there are several farms that offer Strawberry, Peach, Blueber-ry, Apple, and Watermelon picking. A great Saturday morning adventure that starts in late April and con-tinues through until late fall, these trips are always a rejuvenating break from what can be a stressful campus. Make sure to come hungry and eat as many berries as you can while picking!

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If you like Folk Music, MerleFest, located about an hour from Duke’s campus is the best place you could go. Full of just about every folk band in the south, you can lose yourself in the several stages, many events, and friendly atmosphere.

Durham Bulls! You’ll most likely have already been to one of these with the entire freshmen class by the time you’re reading this. Independent of how that goes, definitely go back. They’ve got student discounts and cheap tickets that are sure to please. If you’re not feeling like sitting in the stands, be sure to go to Tobacco Road sports bar, full of reclining seats, individual tables, and a porch overlooking the stadium its a great way to watch a game while enjoying a nice meal. You’ve gotta go, there’s a movie about ‘em!

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VolunteeringPerhaps the most overwhelming thing to do when getting to Duke is decid-ing where you’re going to spend your precious free time. While Duke is sure to overload you with things to do at Duke, with Duke, and for Duke, if you’re looking for a place where you can volunteering in the wonderful town of Durham, with Durhamites, for Durhamites, here are a couple of organiza-tions to check out.

Urban Ministries is a multifaceted organization that works with and for Durham’s underprivileged. Operating a homeless shelter, food pantry, soup kitchen, job training program, as well as many other services Urban Ministries is in the heart Durham, serving Durham. Email jayne.ratliff@duke.edu for more information.

Habitat for Humanity, the nationally syndi-cated organization has a very active Durham Chapter. Often working on three houses at a time, its quite easy to volunteer on a slow day, or weekend with a couple of friends. Email Jenny Copeland for more information at jec17@duke.edu

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Interfaith Hospitality Network is a network of local churches that offer a place for women and children to stay when they don’t have any other options. Volunteers are needed to make meals, and care for the families each night. Email Jenny Co-peland at jec17@duke.edu for more information.

The Durham Crisis Response Center is a organization that works to provide support for abused women and chil-dren by offering a support line, group sessions, baby sitting services, court representation and more. Email jes-sica.howsam@duke.edo for more in-formation.

The Religious Coalition for a Non-Vi-olent Durham is a group of concerned Durham citizens working to bring ho-listic peace to the Durham communi-ty. Holding vigils for deceased victims of violence in the Durham community, bi-weekly meetings, and advocating for change are all ways they work to bring this about. Email Sam Zimmer-man at sam.zimmerman@duke.edu for more information.

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We envision the Duke University Wesley Fellowship as having three foci: fel-lowship, outreach and spiritual growth. By providing a safe, but challenging harbor, we can equip people to engage in ministry initiatives and enhance individual spiritual growth. When an individual grows spiritually, the com-munity is strengthened and even greater ministry challenges can be met. No single aspect of what we do within the structure of Wesley would succeed in-dependently of the other emphases. The interweaving of fellowship, outreach, and spiritual growth bind the fabric of Wesley Fellowship. I invite you to visit and experience our community for yourself.

Jennifer E. CopelandUnited Methodist Chaplain

Friendship is good. Fellowship is better. Through fellowship we build relationships that make us a stronger community. Of course, we do this in the normal friendship kinds of ways. We eat together, tent together (that basketball phenomenon known only to Duke students), watch movies, play games. Whatever the activity, planned or spur of the mo-ment, we create the kind of fun that will become your best memories of college.

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Spiritual growth happens in large and small settings. Our primary focal point for the week is the gathering of the en-tire Wesley community on Sunday evening at 6:00 at Asbury United Methodist Church (located on Markham Ave. just off East Campus). Here we come together to sing and pray, hear God’s word, and engage the faith. Weekly communion, semes-ter retreats, and small group gatherings enhance our spiritual growth and solidify our Christian commitment.

Spiritual Growth

Social justice defines who we are more than any other single aspect of Wesley. We don’t see our involvement in these activities as simple volunteerism or an occasional act of charity. We see it as a way of life defined by our grateful response to God’s grace. God’s call takes us to homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and after-school programs in the Durham area on a regular basis. It also takes us on Break Team trips to places as near as eastern North Carolina and as far away as Honduras.

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Brought to you by the Duke Wesley Fellowship

Contact Information:

Minister: The Reverend Jennifer CopelandPhone: 919-613-0307

Wesley on the Web: duke.edu/web/wesleyThe Wesley Office: 027 Chapel Basement