Side Street Restaurant & Catering Service

Side Street Restaurant is a small spot on North Bloodworth Street in downtown Raleigh. The kitchen turns out soups, salads, sandwiches, and sweet treats, and the room has a quaint, old-fashioned feel to it.

Sandwiches carry the names of customers, which tells you something about how long some people have been coming here. It is the kind of small downtown place that fills up with familiar faces, which is how a sandwich ends up named after somebody. Catering is available for anyone who wants the same food served somewhere else.

What to know

• Raving David’s Reuben is one of the named sandwiches on the menu.
• It layers lean corned beef, kraut, Swiss, Thousand Island, and mustard.
• The reuben arrives hot on toasted rye.