Cafe Carolina & Bakery

Cafe Carolina and Bakery is on Clark Avenue in Raleigh, a bakery and a cafe in one room. The cases hold fresh pastries, and the kitchen turns out hearty wraps, crisp salads, grilled paninis and soups.

The approach is kept plain: good ingredients, simple flavors and food made by hand every day. It works as well for a sit-down lunch as for a stop on the way to somewhere else, and handmade comfort food is what the place is built around, from the morning bake onward.

What to know

• Breakfast can be as simple as coffee and a quiche.
• Orders can be placed online ahead of a visit.
• Catering for offices and groups runs through EZ Cater.
• Delivery is available, so a meal can come to you.
• The kitchen sums up its aim in two words: simple meals.