Charleston Beer, Wine & Booze

NoMo · burgers, american

Heavy's is a Charleston burger bar with three rooms: Morrison Drive downtown, Daniel Island (891 Island Park Drive) and Isle of Palms (1012 Ocean Boulevard). It won Best Burger in the 2026 City Paper readers' poll. On r/Charleston it is the first burger most people name, with a loud minority who call it overpriced.

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High Wire has been distilling on the peninsula since 2013 and says all of its spirits are produced in its downtown Charleston distillery. It was the Distillery runner-up in City Paper's 2026 readers' poll.

NoMo · $$ · bbq, texas barbecue, texas bbq

Pitmaster John Lewis serves Central Texas barbecue here, sliced to order at the counter from smokers he designed and welded himself, as the venue tells it. The Post and Courier says the Charleston original opened about a decade ago and has since spawned rooms in Greenville and Atlanta. It is known for smoked brisket, beef sausage and corn pudding with Hatch green chiles, and it has a large bar and a backyard patio. This is Texas-style beef barbecue, not a South Carolina sauce tradition. It was named a Bib Gourmand on 3 November 2025.

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Revelry brews on Conroy Street in the peninsula's brewery district and is known for the rooftop bar on top of its taproom. Its own site now also points to a second location on Folly Beach.

NoMo · $ · american, bar food

A bar and music room in an old ironworks on the upper peninsula. The venue says it is in the Ole Charleston Forge building and has served food, drink and live music since 2011, with the kitchen open until 1 a.m. every day. The Post and Courier's 2026 itinerary sends readers there for $5 pitchers of Miller High Life on a patio that faces the Ravenel Bridge, and City Paper (June 2026) points to the $13 disco fries and the $12 patty melt.