What locals are saying
The Lucky Luchador is the Eastside's answer to Charleston's creeping cocktail-lounge monoculture — a deliberate neighborhood bar where $2.75 beers and rotating pop-up kitchens (Puerto Rican oxtail bao, curry goat empanadas, ramen nights) share space with a dark, dive-bar interior and a loudly painted back patio that reads more Oaxaca street market than East Side Charleston. Owner Chris 'Boston' DiMattia built it on an explicit philosophy: a place locals can afford to show up to on a Tuesday, not just a weekend treat. The one real blemish in the record is an isolated but pointed complaint about a bouncer turning away a group with what was read as homophobic intent — worth noting in a bar that otherwise trades heavily on its inclusive, community-first identity.
