Sick of dinner and movie? Need a new idea for date night? We’ve got you covered with our Raleigh Date Night Directory!
Below is a list we have compiled of all the exciting, adventurous date night ideas around Raleigh (and we’re updating it regularly)! Let us know if we missed anything in the comments below!
Date Night Directory
❤️Join the circus for a night! Take a class in trapeze or aerial silks at Cirque De Vol Circus Arts Studios!
❤️ Laugh until your sides hurt at Goodnights Comedy Club or Improv Raleigh (get a Groupon)
❤️Learn the Olympic sport of curling with Triangle Curling
❤️Stroll hand-in-hand through a garden together. Duke Gardens and the JC Raulston Arboretum can take you on some beautiful adventures! For Garden’s Sake Durham also hosts adult events in the evenings within their garden!
❤️ Work those muscles with indoor rock climbing at Triangle Rock Club
Get a Groupon for a discount!
❤️ Let out your anger and smash stuff at wreck it rage room
❤️ Let out some pent-up frustration by throwing axes (at the target of course)! Rush Hour Karting , Urban Axes, and Epic Axe has many locations around the triangle for practicing your throw!
❤️Experience the new, fancy twist on a food court – the food hall! We have two in the area: Transfer Co. Food Hall and Morgan Street Food Hall.
Morgan Street also has Epic Axe onsite for some axe throwing while you eat! 🪓
❤️Have a high-flying adventure with INDOOR SKYDIVING at Paraclete Indoor Skydiving
Or do the real thing and get a Groupon for a discount!
❤️Take a cooking class together at Sur La Table North Hills
❤️Zip through the trees together! Pick from XTreme Park Adventures, Go Ape Treetop Adventures, or Tree Runner Raleigh.
❤️Make sweet, sweet, chocolate at The Chocolate Boutique in Lafayette Village. Your class comes with wine, chocolate, and you get to learn a bit about chocolate making and pour your own mold to take home!
❤️Just like in the movies, take a couples pottery class at Branded Vessels Pottery or Klaystation
❤️Explore the kayaking trail at Robertson Millpond. Take your own kayak at anytime or rent one on Saturdays.
❤️Practice your swing at Drive Shack Raleigh. You can also eat at the onsite restaurant!
❤️Test your wits in an escape room! We have many to choose from:
https://allinadventures.com/
https://www.amazeroomescapes.com/
https://wakeforestescaperoom.com/
https://raleigh.escaperoom5280.com/
https://thetowerescapes.com/
❤️Get competitive in an arcade!
Boxcar Arcade is a bar in downtown Raleigh with old school style arcade games.
Dave and Busters in Cary has your newer games, and they have a full restaurant onsite. Get a Groupon for a discount!
Stars and Strikes offers not just an arcade, but bowling, laser tag, and bumper cars too!
❤️Listen to live music and dance the night away. We are fortunate to have so many live venues in Raleigh!
https://www.livenation.com/venues/14476/coastal-credit-union-music-park-at-walnut-creek
https://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/
https://www.redhatamphitheater.com/
❤️Escape reality. Try virtual reality at Augmentality in Durham
Get a Groupon for a discount!
❤️Get close with some ballroom dancing!
http://www.americanballroomnc.com/programs.html
https://southernstarballroom.com/
https://asteptogold.com/
❤️Take a trolley tour around Raleigh
https://www.raleighnc.gov/parks/content/ParksRec/Articles/Parks/Mordecai.html
https://www.greatraleightrolley.com/
❤️Go watch a Carolina Hurricanes game!
❤️Go ice skating, as long as you catch each other when you fall!
https://www.iceplex.com/
https://www.icehousewakeforest.com/
https://www.raleighcenterice.com/
https://www.icehousecary.com/
https://www.icehousegarner.com/
❤️Experience the thrill of the roller derby with Carolina Roller Derby
❤️Take a romantic carriage ride downtown with J&L Tours
❤️Get creative and take an art class together
https://wineanddesign.com/locations/raleigh
https://www.pinotspalette.com/briercreek
https://www.arworkshop.com/raleigh/
❤️Sing your hearts out at Plus Dueling Piano bar. It’s a bar with a full service restaurant, but they have live dueling piano players as entertainment. They take requests and it’s a party every night!
❤️Go old-fashioned bowling at this uptown alley. Kings Bowling North Hills is one of the classiest bowling alleys I’ve ever seen! Get a Groupon for a discount!
❤️Test your balance with Stand-up Paddle boarding (SUP)
http://www.froghollowoutdoors.com/standup-paddle-board-instruction/standup-paddleboard-sup-express-clinic
❤️Practice your aim at Triangle Shooting Academy (they even have a restaurant onsite)!
❤️Knock each other around in the new sport sweeping the nation – Triangle Knockerball. Get a Groupon for a discount!
❤️Try your hand at archery
http://www.lifetimearchery.com/lessons.html
https://firstflightarchery.com/
❤️Tap into your artsy side and see a Broadway show, the ballet, or the symphony! The Duke Energy Center downtown and DPAC in Durham always have lots of fun shows to choose from!
❤️ The museums in town have after-hours programs for adults! Check the museum calendar for these scheduled events!
https://www.lifeandscience.org/adult-programs
https://www.marbleskidsmuseum.org/21marbles
https://ncartmuseum.org/calendar/event/2034/10/20/iris_after_dark/1730
❤️ Rent a Pedal Boat at Bond Park, Lake Johnson, Lake Wheeler, Pullen Park or Lake Crabtree.
❤️Visit a quaint outdoor mall and do a little window shopping at North Hills or The Village District (formerly Cameron Village)
Bonus: North Hills regularly has outdoor music series or other fun events. Check their events page for details.
❤️ Learn how to decorate cookies together with Darlin’ Designs and share a sweet treat afterward!
❤️ Blow glass at Starworks Glass Studio in Star, NC (2 hours from Raleigh).
Check their calendar for events that include dinner at the cafe, artist demonstrations with glass or ceramics, and live music at the bar afterward!
❤️ Need to stay closer to home but still want to work with glass? Try a stained glass fusing class with Christal Cerrone Glass Designs in Durham (Get a Groupon)
❤️ Take a cocktail-making class at Crude Bitters https://www.bittersbittersbitters.com/
❤️ Get cozy at one of the nation’s last drive-in movie theaters! Raleigh Road Outdoor Theater is about 45 minutes North of Raleigh in Henderson. (Get a Groupon for a discount package)
❤️ Have dinner at a romantic winery at sunset at Gregory Vineyards and Lane’s seafood and steakhouse in Angier, NC (30 minutes south of Raleigh). Grab a Groupon!
❤️Go downtown and listen to some live jazz music at a vintage jazz bar!
❤️Order a Date Night Box for a romantic night in!