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Breweries and nightlife

Eat & Drink Updated Jun 2026 Next review Dec 2026 Suggest a correction

Wake Forest after 8 p.m. is smaller than Raleigh and better than it was. Here is all of it.

Breweries

White Street Brewing is the anchor: taproom, stage, food trucks Thursday through Sunday. Youngsville has two more within fifteen minutes.

Live music

Brooks Street Records on Saturday afternoons, the brewery most nights, the Renaissance Centre for anything with seats.

Late

Shorty’s until 11 on Fridays and Saturdays. That’s the list.

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