Wilmington StarNews
If the new restaurants popping up in and around Wilmington are any indication, locals are hungry for seafood.
From Coast Craft Cocktails & Calabash in Carolina Beach to a new food truck from Maya’s Crab Shack in Riegelwood, there are a handful of new fish-focused choices in the area.
One exception is the CBT Burger food truck. It’s the latest venture from chef Bud Taylor, who closed the popular restaurant The Bistro at Topsail in early 2019.
Since then he’s been working as a builder, but missed cooking.
“I thought this would be something fun I could do on the weekends,” he said.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. North Carolina’s Hi-Wire Brewing plans to expand yet again with the announcement of a sixth taproom coming this summer to the Bluegrass State. The new Louisville, KY location will be the brewery’s second taproom outside of North Carolina, and it will make Hi-Wire the first out-of-state brewery to open up facilities in Kentucky. With taproom number five opening in Wilmington, N.C. in Dec. 2020, Hi-Wire Brewing currently has four retail taprooms in North Carolina and a fifth in Tennessee, and the brewery’s distribution area has grown to nine states since opening in 2013 with the expansion to Virginia and Indiana in 2020. This recent growth comes even in the face of the continued pressures of the global COVID-19 pandemic. “Taprooms are a core revenue stream for our company, especially given our current climate. They create brand ambassadors in those markets. They create jobs and increase wholesale sales in the region,” says Hi-Wire Brewing co-owner Bryna Fros
A longtime Wilmington restaurant owner opted to give life to a dormant 4001 Wrightsville Avenue.
It s undergone multiple renovations since 2010, one a makeover for a Food Network show. And with varied looks, three restaurants have occupied the address in the last seven years, most notably Salt Works II until it closed in 2015.
Chris Graham took over the building last March, just as the COVID-19 pandemic began to grip the country.
Perhaps that would concern others, but since its June opening, Graham has the receipts: That is, to show his Molly Pitcher s American Grill can succeed where others couldn t. When you re opening a restaurant you re behind the eight ball and then doing it in a pandemic in a place where it’s had its struggles with people in the recent past, Graham said. Salt Works II did really well, everything since then seemed to struggle a little bit.”
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