Word on the street
What locals are saying
Prohibition has been an upper King Street anchor long enough to earn the hardware — Esquire 'Best Bar' recognition, Charleston City Paper's 'Best Cocktail Program,' and placements in national travel titles — and the cocktail program, built by bar manager Jim McCourt and his Irish hospitality crew out of New York, mostly justifies it. The 547 Manhattan and the Bacon Maple Old Fashioned are the cited signatures; the Memphis dry-rub wings with Gorgonzola ranch have become a genuine sleeper on a menu that otherwise skews small-plates-sized for the price. Live jazz and swing seven nights a week keeps the room kinetic, but this is a place where the drink is the reason and the food is the excuse.
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The fit
