Durham, NC advice (mostly food)

So I'm going to be in Durham for the first time in my life next week. I won't be there too long (Monday night - Thursday morning) and I won't have much free time (I'll be working 12 hour days), so I feel most of my exploring will be done with a fork and knife.
Where should I be eating?
Mostly I want awesome Carolina BBQ, but other genres are also welcome.

Thanks!

 

Oxymoron. But there is some good food in Durham and I hear downtown has a lot more than when I lived there a few years back. Pops in Brightleaf Square is a fantastic Italian place.

 

One word: Cookout. Eat all your meals there.

 

Cookout is excellent, though eating every meal there means you miss out on some other good places. Still,that's the smartest thing he's ever said.

Blue Corn Cafe on 9th Street has great Latin American food.

 

Chubby's Tacos on Ninth Street -- most excellent.

Here is a guide to the restaurants in the American Tobacco District area, mostly to highlight Tyler's, which has a good beer selection, and Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, which is decent and seats you in left field of the Bulls ballpark.

http://www.americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com/restaurants/page/10784063/

 

My office was above Tyler's, great joint if you are looking for a sports bar-type place. They used to have great specials on Canadian beer during Canes games.

 

When I google cookout Durham NC, I get three results, Hillsborough, Roxboro and Miami st. Which one should I be going to?

 

They're probably all the same and excellent. Most are open until 2 or 3 a.m. Get the burger all the way or the cheese dog with a Cheerwine and you'll be set.

 

Hillsborough and Roxboro are little towns nearby, but you likely have no reason to go there. Miami Street is a Durham location, south part of town if I remember right. The other one must be the one closest to Duke.

 

Ok, cool. Thanks!

 

Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen in Chapel Hill. Utterly glorious chicken biscuits made even better when you add an egg and cheese. Greasy, disgusting, murderous and completely unforgettable. You'll hate yourself and pledge to do it again as soon as you can.

 

Just in case you're looking for "Bull Durham" locations:

http://www.fast-rewind.com/locations_bulldurham.htm

And Annie Savoy's house, which isn't in here, is 911 N. Mangum St. There's no sign, and somebody actually lives there.