Queeny's

Queeny's is a bar and restaurant at 321 E Chapel Hill St, modelled on the neighbourhood bar-and-grill: comfort food, cocktails and long tables. Discover Durham lists it as LGBTQIA-owned (August 2026). The back room holds Rubyfruit, a small queer bookshop named after the novel Rubyfruit Jungle, and the calendar includes the monthly Great Durham Bakeoff drag show and Queer Book Bingo (INDY Week). Google lists it open daily from 11:45am until 2am. It scores 4.3 from about 570 reviews. At dinner it is a mixed restaurant crowd; the queer programming happens on event nights, so check their Instagram for dates.