What's the first thing you like to do when you go back to visit? My brother picks me up, and we go to Bojangles'. It's considered a fast-food restaurant, but it's not really fast food. They have Cajun chicken, buttermilk biscuits, and dirty rice, and it's just heaven. Seriously, I eat at Bojangles' the entire time I'm there. Cam McRae, who is the father of my best friend from my growing-up years, started out making biscuits at Bojangles' when we were five years old. Now he's the major owner of the franchise. Cam's the perfect example of that work ethic that I'm talking about. He's on the board of the Department of Transportation and heads up Aviation and Marine/Waterways Transportation. And he is partial owner of the Kinston Indians, which is the minor-league baseball team in our town. He's a big part of why I never gave up - watching him work so hard to get to where he's at to help better the town. But yeah, I go home and eat my egg-and-cheese biscuits from Bojangles'.

Well, I'm guessing that you don't eat at Bojangles' for every meal. You'd be surprised!

Fair enough - those biscuits do sound fabulous. But do you have any other recommendations in Raleigh? Churchill's is an old local spot in Five Points. It's a bar where everyone loves to go hang out. There's also a great Chinese restaurant, called Five Star, that's downtown, and it turns into a fun, wild bar scene at night. And then there's Hayes Café - it's in the back of Hayes Pharmacy - and it is a retro diner that's a Southern-lunch-and-brunch hot spot that then turns into a romantic dinner spot. Oh, and one place that is so much fun is Stool Pigeons, which is a really nice sports bar on Glenwood Avenue.

Is Glenwood Avenue the place to be? Yeah, just about everything is right there on Glenwood, which is really close to the airport. You'd stay right there at the Marriott, and everything else, like the Crabtree Valley Mall, is nearby.