Driving down South Main Street, you can’t miss the dusty construction going on at South of Beale, a new almost-opened pub.
Owners Brittany Whisenant and Ed Cabigao plan to open the “gastropub” in early August. And what, exactly, is a gastropub?
“It’s a pub atmosphere with better quality food,” Cabigao says. Originally created in European countries like France and Britain, gastropubs are gaining in popularity in the U.S.