Charlotte's first streetcar suburb, laid out in 1891 south of Uptown, with East Boulevard as its main street. It lost several restaurants in 2025 and the survivors are mostly long-running neighborhood rooms rather than new arrivals.
300 East has been serving East Boulevard in Dilworth for more than 35 years, in the Street Car Station Shops. The kitchen works seasonally with an emphasis on seafood and local sourcing. It runs weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is patio seating, weather permitting, and patio tables cannot be reserved. Guy Fieri filmed it for the Indulgent Dishes episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
Bonterra is a restaurant and wine room inside a converted church at Cleveland and East Worthington in Dilworth. The building went up in the late 1800s as Atherton Methodist Church, the first permanent place of worship in the area, got its brick exterior in 1914 and was renamed Dilworth Methodist Episcopal Church South. It later housed the First Church of Nazareth and Greater Providence Baptist Church before it became a restaurant. Chef Blake Hartwick cooks classic American food from local farms and says he wants the food to speak for itself. The wine room and cellar host wine pairing dinners, and the phone number spells out 704-333-WINE.
The Dilworth room on Scott Avenue, the Charlotte original of a wood-fired pizza company that now runs twenty locations across four states and still keeps its corporate office on East 7th Street in Charlotte. It publishes a kids menu and a separate gluten-free menu as downloadable PDFs, along with an allergen sheet.
Neighborhood pub on Park Rd in Dilworth. Its site says televisions are propped at all angles and every seat has a view. It also runs a second Ed's Tavern in the Lake Norman area.
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