Foxcroft Food & Wine is closing its Raleigh restaurant and wine bar at 4421 Six Forks Road in North Hills, with a closing sale running through its final day of operation on September 5. The Charlotte-founded chain announced the shutdown on its business Facebook page on August 31, just 19 months after opening in the Lassiter District.
As reported by The News & Observer, the Foxcroft team said the company made the difficult decision to close the Raleigh location and expressed gratitude for the community's support. The restaurant is selling all wine bottles at 50% off ahead of the closure, according to the same report. The Raleigh outpost had offered lunch, dinner and brunch menus alongside wine and cocktails, serving pastas, charcuterie, salads, sandwiches, flatbreads, small plates, entrées and dessert.
The venue at 4421 Six Forks Road previously housed Midtown Grille, a longtime local restaurant that closed in September 2022 after 17 years in business, according to Raleigh Magazine. Foxcroft's Raleigh location arrived with a soft launch in January 2025, marking the Charlotte brand's initial expansion into the Research Triangle, per Axios Raleigh.
A Retail-Dining Hybrid With Serious Kitchen Investment
Foxcroft was founded by Conrad Hunter in 2004 in Charlotte's Foxcroft neighborhood as a boutique wine shop before growing into its current retail-restaurant hybrid model, in which customers buy bottles from open shelves throughout the dining room at retail prices rather than standard restaurant markups. The Raleigh location also offered private wine dinners and masterclasses, with wine dinners priced at $145 per person, and it featured a specialized Spanish Josper charcoal oven along with a temperature-controlled preservation bar pouring nearly 50 wines by the glass, per Wake Living.
The company refreshed its identity in 2025, rebranding from Foxcroft Wine Co. to Foxcroft Food & Wine to emphasize its scratch kitchen and full dining menu alongside wine retail. According to its website, the business describes its mission as making wine approachable and enjoyable for everyone. Following the Raleigh exit, Foxcroft still operates three locations in Charlotte plus one in Huntersville, North Carolina, according to The News & Observer's report.
North Hills Sees a Wave of Departures
Foxcroft's closure lands amid a broader shakeup of North Hills' dining scene. Neighboring competitor Sixty Vines opened a 13,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant and wine-on-tap venue in North Hills' Main District in December 2025, bringing a national wine-focused rival into direct proximity with Foxcroft's own wine-centric concept. The development, which Kane Realty Corporation redeveloped from a former 1960s shopping mall site in 2001 and reopened in 2004, now spans 1.2 million square feet across its Main, Lassiter, Park and Innovation Districts.
The closure also fits a pattern of Triangle restaurant transitions this year. The News & Observer separately reported that Triangle Wine Co. closed multiple locations after 11 years in business. And in Pittsboro, Café Root Cellar closed after nearly a decade, with its owners planning to pursue their Feed-Well Fridges anti-hunger nonprofit full-time.
What's Left on Six Forks Road
The Lassiter District sits across from Midtown Park and long-established dining staples such as Coquette Brasserie and Vivace, giving the corridor plenty of foot traffic even as individual tenants turn over. Foxcroft's closing sale, discounting every bottle by half, gives Raleigh shoppers one last chance to stock up before the doors shut for good on September 5.
