Restaurant Ratings: Liquid Legends Kitchen and Cocktails, Manhattan Café, The Cardinal Bar, The Exchange Café and Rise Biscuits

Five on Your Side's Keely Arthur shows us where and what inspectors found in this week's restaurant ratings report.
Posted 1/2/2026, 11:46:27 PM Updated 1/3/2026, 12:00:06 AM

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WRAL.

YOU KNOW, EVERY FRIDAY, 5 ON

YOUR SIDE TRACKS, RESTAURANT

HEALTH SCORES AROUND THE AREA.

>> TODAY AS WE START A NEW

YEAR, WE ARE FLIPPING THE

SCRIPT AND SPOTLIGHTING THE

RESTAURANTS, DOING EVERYTHING

RIGHT. LET'S CELEBRATE KEELY.

ARTHUR HAS THE ONES WITH

PERFECT OR NEAR-PERFECT SCORES.

>> FIRST, A LIQUID LEGENDS

KITCHEN AND COCKTAILS AT 45.

51 NEW BERN AVENUE SUITE.

ONE 90 IN RALEIGH. GOOD LEGENDS

GOING 99 IN DECEMBER PREVIOUSLY

SCORED A 96.5 IN JULY OF 2025.

AND A 96.5 IN MARCH OF 2025.

OVER TO MANHATTAN CAFE AND 1004

LOWER SHILOH WAY IN

MORRISVILLE.

AND CAFES FOOT IN 98.5 IN

DECEMBER. IT PREVIOUSLY SCORED

A 98.5 IN JULY 2025. AND A 98

IN JANUARY 2025. NOW OVER TO

THE CARDINAL BAR AT 5.35, SOUTH

WHITE STREET IN WAKE FOREST,

CARDINAL BARS FOR THE PERFECT

100 IN DECEMBER. THERE WERE

NO PREVIOUS COURSE AT THIS

LOCATION. FINALLY TO RISE.

THIS COULD STILL IT'S SAD.

ONE 69 GRANT HILL PLACE IN

HOLLY SPRINGS, FORD AND 99.

IN DECEMBER, A PREVIOUSLY

SCORED A 98.5 IN JUNE 2025.