Mellow Mushroom is planning to open their 3rd Charlotte location in Uptown Charlotte in the Catalyst Apartment Building.  Mellow Mushroom is know for their classic southern pizza and extensive beer list.  They were founded in 1974 born out of the hip

A couple months back I was sitting at the bar in Cosmos Cafe in the Robinson Farm development when the bartender and guy next to me started talking about a new pub going in over by Toast. The weeks passed by and nothing happened until one day on my way to wor

The saying goes it does not matter how many times you get knocked down, it matters how many times you get back up.  Nick LaVecchia has been knocked down quite a few times over the past year but like Jason from the Halloween Movies he is tough to put away. 

  It took 33 years but Taco Mac has finally changed their name to Taco Mac Sports Grill.  They hope the name lets people know what they are as they open new stores in other cites.  They are usually perceived as a Mexican restaurant because of their nam

  Quaker Steak and Lube in Pineville has closed after 6 short months in business.  This is the 2nd Quaker Steak to close in Charlotte after the one in Myers Park closed several years ago.  The Quaker Steak in Concord close to the speedway remains open.

Not only did our colleague David Morris and thousand of screaming teenage girls catch "Bieber Fever" last night during his sold out concert at Time Warner arena but those who were at Whisky River got a glimpse of Justin.  Bieber joined his official DJ Tay Ja

Was traveling through the Atlanta airport a few weeks ago and saw this SweetWater Draft House and Grill.  SweetWater which began a scant 15 years ago by Freddy Bensch has become one of the biggest breweries in the Southeast.  SweetWater is known for it's to

The "King of Beers" Budweiser has to do something to combat the craft beer craze that is sweeping the nation.  Charlotte itself has 9 breweries when it had none a scant 5 years ago.  The Project 12 idea was to have Budweiser's 12 brewmasters from around the

Beer and the NFL seem to go hand in hand.  Any game you watch on TV you are inundated with beer commercials so someone must have figured out that people that watch football drink a lot of beer.  I wish I could get one of those marketing jobs.  We ran acros

Heist Brewery is not what I had in mind when I heard another brewery was opening in NODA. By now, anyone from Charlotte that drinks beer knows about the other 2 new heavyweights of the hood. Birdsong and NODA breweries are quickly making the current top Charlo