High Park Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Raleigh

If you’re looking for a place to bring your family to be belittled, embarrassed, lied to and gaslighted in attempt to fight you by staff, then look no further than High Park Bar and Grill.

We patron there last year for Mother’s Day and had a good experience. It took a long time for the food, but nevertheless things went well on Mother’s Day 2024.

Mother’s Day 2025. It’s time to place our order. I asked the server who was very kind and professional. What type of hashbrowns did they serve? Were they shredded or diced. He told me they were diced and they were served with onions and green peppers, I thought green peppers in hashbrowns were a little odd, so I chose mashed potatoes after he informed me that I could substitute it for any of their regular side items.

I started to experience a cramp in my hamstring, so I left the table and walked to the front door to relieve the cramping in my leg. As I’m standing by the host stand. I asked the two ladies if I could get the hashbrowns without green peppers, they told me only onions are in the hashbrowns, not green peppers. A short guy with long hair and some facial hair tells walks up & says that there are green peppers in the hashbrowns and they cannot be removed. I said OK great thank you and I finish relieving my cramping and I go back to my table.

Our food is being served, and I noticed everyone that ordered hashbrowns does not have any onions and green peppers in it. I was walking back up to the hostess stand to inquire about it a second time and the short guy meets me halfway there again, and I asked him are you sure because we just got served our food and there’s no bell peppers in the hashbrowns. Then I asked him to please follow me and let me show you, I showed him the food clearly with no green peppers and onions in it, and he got defensive about it, look at me and says I told you there are SOME in it and walks away from the table. I then said sir, four or five times and he keeps walking away so then I follow him to the hostess stand and I said politely and calmly excuse me, but I was talking to you and you just walked away from me then he tells me I was going to get your hashbrowns. I said OK thank you.

I sit back down to the table with my family, and as I was explaining to my wife and my daughter who is sitting on my right and my left hand side exactly what was just sad, normal tone voice, sharing the conversation that was just had between him and I with my table. As he’s bringing me a little bowl of hashbrowns, he tells me that I need to stop talking crap and to keep my voice down. I looked up at him and I said excuse me?? I’m talking to my family and I’m not yelling. My voice is down. I was just sharing with them the conversation that you and I had Then he leans down and gets in my ear and tells me that I can leave if I don’t want the potatoes and that I need to keep my voice down, but let me remind you that I have not raised my voice, not one time. Now I’m starting to feel attacked and embarrassed in front of my family. Next thing I know I have another lady who’s standing beside the little guy telling me that if I don’t stop talking and keep my voice down they’re gonna call the cops and make me leave. Well, I told the little guy he’s got five seconds to get out of my face because he was bent over talking to my ear And he said, “and if I don’t, what are you gonna do about it? “ I responded. Are you serious right now? I told him to get out of my face and I stood up and told him if you want we could take it outside. So now it’s starting to go sideways At this point, of course I’m starting to get angry because I have done nothing wrong. The short guy tells me to box up my food and take it with me. The lady manager says for me to leave my food there and to leave before she cause the police. I told her I don’t care call the police I haven’t done anything wrong.

I called Uber to take me back to Cary Have had a couple of hours to process this & I am shocked at the way the staff treated me

Hopefully this post reaches caring...

I live around the corner and normally come to this bar all the time but this past night I had the unfortunate experience of seeing a seemingly racially motivated situation. This group of people are getting drinks, this guy spills a water-they begin cleaning it up immediately mind you. The bartender- this blonde girl throws a rag at another guy in the group who is just eating his wings. The rag falls in his food and others in his group as why she would do that. They apologize about the spilled water but she’s seemingly doesn’t care and is mocking them. She then begins to tell them to get out of “her bar”. After continuous mocking we ask point blank period why she was being so aggressive, she then laughs in our face. After this we decide to leave the establishment but more before the bartender begins to tell our friend that “his people” are always rambunctious. She then continued to her friend that he needs to get “ his type” of people out of the bar and “his people” needs to stay away. Our friend who was now visiting from his base out of town is extremely uncomfortable to visit this establishment. We are extremely disappointed in this establishment and basic...

Food is bland & a tad better than hospital cafeteria quality. The two pool tables are not well maintained with not even enough space so the cue sticks to hit the wall. The service is extremely slow. I've been there well over a dozen times with different friends and most of my friends would independently comment about how ridiculously long it took to get the attention of the bartender when the business was completely slow. The bartenders would clearly see us waiting, avoid eye contact and just chat with outher patrons for over ten minutes instead of approaching us. It was bizarre. Sometimes another customer who was a local would even notice how long we were waiting and speak up for us. It was that bad. Most disturbingly, the staff is discriminatory to any non-regulars; especially anyone without a southern accent. Not all staff, but most are bigots, racists and hate any outsiders. Especially that one younger blonde haired thin woman. It's pretty pathetic. Avoid this place at all costs unless you're already a local regular and "one of their own". Not sure if they host KKK meetings on Wednesdays, but it wouldn't...