Charleston Happenings Vol. 47
Pawleys Island-based Restaurant Close To Opening In Mount Pleasant
Another new restaurant will be opening soon in Moultrie Plaza on Coleman Boulevard. The owner of Get Carried Away announced a tentative soft-opening on January 11. Among other things, it’s famous for its Palmetto Cheese pimento cheese brand.
They’ll also have an outside area called The Perch, which will be open for casual eating and drinking and will offer full service in late winter or early spring.
This will make 2 restaurants that have opened recently in Moultrie Plaza, in spaces that were vacant for surprisingly long periods. Farmhaus opened on the opposite side of the shopping center on October 6.
Sports-Focused Restaurant & Bar To Open Soon On The Peninsula
A new restaurant that dubs itself “a public house with a big sandwich and sports obsession” will be opening at The Refinery in downtown Charleston soon. The Refinery is a new(ish) mixed-use project that opened last year, and includes trendy office space, The Whale Craft Beer Collective, and an outdoor ampitheater for live music.
Cleats will be the second restaurant from founders of Charleston’s Daps Breakfast and Imbibe. According to an Instagram update of December 23, Cleats reported “our slush machine has arrived, which means we are 1 step closer to opening”. It looks like it’s only a few weeks now.
I’m particularly excited as I’ve heard they’ll also indulge one of my obsessions: showing soccer matches from all the major leagues around the world. ⚽️🥅
(Liverpool Football Club, top of the standings, ahem). #YNWA
Forthcoming Charleston Bookstore Promises Wine and Snacks Among the Stacks
Another of my passions? Reading real books made of paper and glue, bought from a locally-owned bookstore.
Just like I never visit the green mermaid for coffee—when I want to avoid overly-roasted coffee (some might say burnt)—I never go to the book superstore which shall remain unnamed.
Not when there are fabulous locally-owned bookstores to frequent instead, like The Village Bookseller on Coleman Boulevard in Mount Pleasant.
Now I’ll soon have a new place downtown at 50 Bogard Street to visit. Philosophers & Fools will carry a variety of new books in varying genres, along with options for coffee, wine, beer, and snacks. It’s owned by a husband-and-wife team who invested their own money, signed on a loan and raised funds on Kickstarter.
By the way, it’s named after a quote in a book from the great American author William Faulkner. Care to guess which book?
Huge Development Plans To Transform North Charleston
The Charleston region is home to two of the most impressive, high-profile redevelopments on the East Coast. We’ve talked about Union Pier, an ASTOUNDING 65-acre parcel along Charleston harbor (no, all-caps is not overly melodramatic). Now, two projects in the city of North Charleston need to be given their due.
It’s hard to overstate how these projects will change the face of North Charleston. We’re talking investment to the tune of many hundreds of millions $$!
The plans combine a huge private redevelopment project on the north end of the former base that started in 2021, called Navy Yard Charleston, with the city’s vision for a project called Battery Park.
