Take Five: Great food (and wine) and a great big waterslide
Triangle events to add to your daybook:
Adventures in dining
Through Sunday; Triangle area restaurants; $15-$30; trirestaurantweek.com
Only a couple more days to take advantage of Triangle Restaurant Week. Check for the list of participating restaurants online.
Slide baby, slide
9 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday; 200 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh; $15-$99; slidethecity.com/location/raleigh
This street-level waterslide – don’t worry, it’s padded – claims to be the biggest of its kind in the world.
Back in time
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Bentonville Battlefield, 5466 Harper House Road, Four Oaks; free; nchistoricsites.org
Witness camp life and what it was like to be an enlisted man during the Civil War, from cooking to cannon firing.
Txakolifest
1-4 p.m. Sunday; The Rickhouse, 609 Foster St., Durham; $75-$100; nando.com/txakolifest
Fans of this sparkling dry wine produced in the Basque country of Spain can sample up to nine txakolis plus some pretty amazing food from chefs at Black Twig Cider House, Pizzeria Toro, Juju, Gocciolina, Bona Fide Sandwich Co., Blu Seafood and others.
Yippee ki-yay
1-6 p.m. Sunday; along Fayetteville Street, Raleigh; downtownraleighfoodtruckrodeo.com
Another food truck rodeo with more than 50 trucks from across the state and seating for more than 1,000 people along the sidewalks.
This story was originally published June 9, 2016 at 12:00 PM with the headline "Take Five: Great food (and wine) and a great big waterslide."