Dining guide
Bistro La Bon
A small European-style bistro on Central Avenue, one of the more restrained rooms in a corridor full of loud ones.
A small European-style bistro on Central Avenue, one of the more restrained rooms in a corridor full of loud ones.
Where it sits
Bistro La Bon is on Central Avenue in Plaza Midwood, and reads as a european bistro room best suited to brunch, unhurried dinner.
Central Avenue's dining mix runs from counter service to late-night, and the smaller bistro formats are the ones residents tend to keep to themselves. For Elizabeth households the appeal is a sit-down meal that does not require driving uptown or into South End.
It also illustrates something about this part of Charlotte: the commercial buildings are small and old, so the restaurants inside them are small too. Rooms seat dozens, not hundreds, which is why waits are common and why large groups usually end up elsewhere.
On-street parking, tighter at dinner than at brunch.
What to know before you go
- Small-format bistro on the Central Avenue corridor
- Brunch and dinner rather than all-day service
- Small room; expect waits at peak hours
Accuracy note
This page publishes no hours, menus, prices, or ratings. Independent restaurants change all of those without notice, and a stale operating detail is worse than none. Confirm current information with Bistro La Bon directly before planning a visit. Price band is a general category, not a quoted price.
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From the interior residential streets, most of the neighborhood's dining is a five to twenty minute walk, which is one of the practical arguments for living here. Sidewalks are continuous on the main connectors, and crossings on the wider corridors — Hawthorne Lane, Central Avenue, Independence Boulevard — are the part to plan around rather than the distance.
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