Everything in North Charleston beyond Park Circle. Reynolds Avenue has a late ramen bar and a bakery, and Rivers Avenue has the pho and taco shops.
Bar Polari describes itself as a special hideaway for the LGBTQ+ community in Charleston, on Reynolds Avenue in North Charleston. The site names Brent Compagni as owner. It was the LGBTQ Bar runner-up in City Paper's 2026 readers' poll.
Weems Pennington taught himself to make ramen about five years ago, went to Japan in 2025 to study it, and opened this ramen bar on Reynolds Avenue in December 2025 with Sharon Brown as general manager. There are four bowls ... shoyu, shoyu lite, miso and a vegetable ramen on fennel and shiitake broth ... plus karaage three ways and korokke. Cocktails are named after albums. It serves food until 12:30am, walk-ins only, behind a bright green mural near King BBQ.
Coast calls itself a small, family owned craft brewery on an old Navy base, making beer with organic and local ingredients. The taproom has a full bar and kitchen and opens Thursday to Sunday.
Ghost Monkey started in Mount Pleasant and moved in 2024 to North Charleston, where it pours in Beer Alley at Striped Pig Distillery.
Rebel Taqueria describes itself as tacos, tequila and cold beer on Reynolds Avenue in North Charleston. A regular on r/Charleston plugs two dollar street tacos on Tuesdays and an all you can eat taco brunch on Sundays. City Paper readers voted it runner-up for Best Tacos and Best Margarita in 2026.
Rusty Bull is a North Charleston brewery with a full kitchen; its site names the owners as Ben and Brian.
Snafu is a North Charleston brewery known for sour beers; City Paper readers named it Best Locally Brewed Gose/Sour for 2026. It serves snacks and brings in food trucks several times a week.
Striped Pig has been distilling since 2013 and describes itself as a woman-owned, family-run distillery. The tasting room serves specialty cocktails, tours run Wednesday to Friday afternoons, and Ghost Monkey Brewery pours beer on the same site.
A speakeasy hidden inside Holy City Brewing, run by Johnny Caldwell, one half of the Charleston duo The Cocktail Bandits. The Post and Courier reported on 30 January 2026 that it sits behind the brewery bar, behind what looks like a wall of beer cans and taps ... give the wall a nudge and it opens into a small room with its own bar, a few tables and chairs, a record player and shelves of vinyl. A light above the wall is green when the room is open with space and red when it is closed or full. The menu is split into Classics, Signatures and Bites, and a raw bar is available on request.
Tideland is a North Charleston brewery on Dorchester Road with a 5,000 square foot beer garden, a fire pit and a full kitchen that does lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.
