Lantern

$$$
Closed
yelp logo

(459)

Photos

423 W Franklin St
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Located in Chapel Hill, N.C., Lantern Restaurant offers various Asian flavors for gourmet diners. Established in 2002, it features a main dining room and full-service bar. Its menu includes smoked chicken, pepper shrimp, tea-cured salmon, soups, salads, appetizers, noodles, crab cakes, pork dumplings, beef sirloin, fried jalapenos, stuffed shells, and crab and pork spring rolls. The restaurant also serves a variety of chicken and seafood dishes. Lantern Restaurant serves an array of beverages, such as whisky, rum, cocktails, juices, shakes and nonalcoholic drinks. Additionally, its bar offers a selection of wines that includes Champagne, riesling, burgundy, sauvignon blanc, chardonnay, pinot gris, pinot noir and cabernet sauvignon.

Reviews

yelp logo
4.0459 reviews
Photo of steve l.
steve l.
6/28/2025

Food, service and experience always consistently good. Was inspired to write a review after I saw people complaining about the expectation they had for a 30 meal. The spinach is life changing.

Photo of Jeff B.
Jeff B.
7/9/2025

Not for me. Visited last evening and had pleasant service. The food and flavors were not to my liking. The salt and pepper shrimp were battered and cooked with the shell remaining. That didn't...

Photo of Felicia M.
Felicia M.
3/17/2025

Our daughter brought us here to dine when we came to visit this weekend. She had been telling us about this restaurant for sometime. We ordered the tuna, cauliflower, dumplings and warm squash...

Photo of Jason S.
Jason S.
10/4/2025

We were hoping for a nice relaxing evening with friends but we were being pressured to order dinner at the same time as our appetizer and then the dinners came out at different times. Drinks were...

Photo of Lloyd M.
Lloyd M.
11/30/2024

Returned for the first time in over ten years (had moved overseas for eight of the years) and it has not missed a beat. I would describe the menu as modern Asian but the most important thing is...

Own this business?
See a problem?

You might also like

Partial Data by Infogroup (c) 2025. All rights reserved.

Partial Data by Foursquare.