Wow! Another 4 or more star review from Greg Cox. (He's having a good dining year, and so are Triangle diners with such great new options.) This time, Greg visits Little Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Apex, which earned 4-1/2 stars. Go HERE to read his review.

(Earlier this year, Greg gave a 4-1/2 star review to Mandolin and 4-star reviews to Batistella's and Hayashi-Ya, all in Raleigh. Those are rare and so worth noting. Click on those restaurant names to read those reviews if you missed them.)

Just a reminder: More than 80 restaurants across the Triangle will be offering prix fixe lunch and dinner specials from June 4-10.

Participating restaurants may offer a $15 lunch special or a $20 to $30 three-course dinner special. Some of the restaurants include Little Hen in Apex, Blue Mango in Raleigh and Carolina Brewery in Pittsboro and Chapel Hill.

For details, go to blvd.tv/trw/restaurants/

Get your reservations sooner rather than later!
 

So much news to share about restaurant openings in the Triangle:

• Little Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Holly Springs, is now open. Go HERE to read my earlier post. To see their menu, go to www.littlehennc.com.
• Unwine'd Wine Bar opened in late December in Cary. Go to the website for more information: http://unwinedcary.blogspot.com/
• Also in Cary, Mahoney's Irish Pub opened this week at the corner of Tryon Road and Cary Parkway.
• In the same shopping center as the Trader Joe's in Cary, Hurricane Grill and Wings will open March 26.
• In the Maynard Crossing Shopping Center, two new restaurants: KoMo KoMo, a Korean French restaurant, and Paisan's, a new Italian place.
• And thanks to @chanlea on Twitter, El Coyote Bar & Grill in Durham opened last month. (Trying to get some more information on them.)

Little Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant, will hopefully open by the end of July in Holly Springs.

The restaurant is the dream of husband-and-wife team Regan and Dawn Stachler. The couple, both 34, met in class at the French Culinary Institute in New York City. He grew up in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. She is originally from Singapore. He started working in restaurants at the age of 14. She is trained as a lawyer and currently does business litigation for a Cary lawfirm. In New York, he worked at Gramercy Tavern among other restaurants and she staged at Blue Hill, the farm-to-table mecca that he says is a model for Little Hen.(A stage in the culinary field is akin to an internship while in school.)

They moved to North Carolina in 2008, planning to eventually open their own restaurant. Stachler worked at Piedmont in Durham, and his wife went back to practicing law. Once Little Hen opens, he will work as the chef and she will work the front of the house and continue to work part-time for the lawfirm.

The couple has partnered with farmer Bobby Tucker of Okfuskee Farm in Siler City to provide meat and vegetables for the restaurant.

"Whatever they give me is what I'm going to put out," Regan Stachler says about his effort to support local farmers. "My menu will change - in some parts - daily."

The 70-seat restaurant will be located at 5160 Sunset Lake Road, Holly Springs, near Archibald's Tavern.

Check out the website to see the menu and other details: www.littlehennc.com