Week of September 21
Poogan's Smokehouse replaces its Southern Kitchen sibling in Summerville, Church and Union faces a $5M investor dispute, and a new sushi counter opens on Cannon Street.
A busy week for restaurant news: Poogan's Southern Kitchen in Nexton Square will temporarily close at the end of September and reemerge as Poogan's Smokehouse, while Church and Union Charleston found itself at the center of a escalating legal fight after investors alleged $5 million in misappropriated funds. On a quieter civic note, the Emanuel Nine Memorial announced a November 14 opening date — a long-awaited milestone for a city still reckoning with 2015.
For a new table, head to Kyn Sushi on Cannon Street, now open daily in a brick building that once held an 1866 YMCA — hand rolls, sashimi, and crudos in a room with real bones. If you're in Summerville and were a regular at Poogan's Southern Kitchen, that chapter closes at month's end; the barbecue pivot should be worth watching when it reopens. And if you have any intelligence on Church and Union, keep your eyes on the Post & Courier.