S.C Chef Ambassador William Cribb will be behind the chef-driven sides with classic comfort food leanings (think grits, slaw, collards, mac and cheese). Along with the hot variety of fried chicken, Flock Shop will offer lots of traditional “home style” fried chicken including tenders and hand-built sandwiches.We talk about what inspires us and its high energy, great food and drink, and places you can hang out all day.” “Take a southern staple and do it justice, maybe turn it on its head a bit. “We’re all from the south and we love fried chicken, but 99% of the places that do it well you can’t get a drink at,” says Kenneth Cribb, also a partner in the group. Sandra Cannon Design has been retained for the projects in tandem, she was part of the team that brought Fr8Yard to market, which remains the Carolinas only entirely outdoor restaurant.įlock Shop hopes to be known for stellar hot chicken but wants to be sought-out for fried chicken with excellent drinks. Holman is credited with managing the build out of Willy Taco Feed & Seed from a severely dilapidated 1930s warehouse complex.Īn addition will increase the new restaurant’s interior space, while retaining its iconic curved façade and two angled buttresses. “The Greenville spot had the space to begin with, but Spartanburg will be very similar footage,” says Eric Holman, also a Hub City Hospitality partner. The property’s footprint may be larger, but the Spartanburg service station was barely 1,500 square feet. They are different and special and really fit what we want to do.” I think of the two buildings like siblings. “The building to us, its character and history, is what sold us. “We’re taking another great old building in Spartanburg and bringing it back to life in a neighborhood that’s not on the corner of Main and Main,” says Bill Burton, founding partner of Flock Shop’s parent group, Hub City Hospitality. and is on the Mary Black Rail Trail, which sees significant bike traffic as part of the Palmetto Trail. Pine St., is not downtown but sits attractively between the neighborhoods of Converse Heights, Andrews Farm and Country Club Rd. When Flock Shop opens second quarter of next year, it will have 3,000 square feet of finished interiors and the outdoor biergarten will become a shared space with FireForge. He recalls Stone being highly invested in the right mix for Swanson’s and Fireforge. “Combing the streets looking for a location, I met David Stone picking up trash on the sidewalk and I thought, ‘he really cares about the city,’” says Heatly. The location has been closely watched since Fireforge Crafted Beer opened 16 months ago Flock Shop will join the complex which also includes Swanson’s Warehouse, a speakeasy music venue. Greenville’s Flock Shop will be in the heart of downtown, at 307 E. Plans have been in the works for just under two years to find and re-define the vintage storefronts and now that both locations are secured, design and build has begun at a concerted pace. “We think the name gives a nod to the buildings.” Historic preservation is our M-O, to repurpose really unique spaces,” says Richard Heatly, one of the partners behind Willy Taco and now Flock Shop. “Both locations had been old auto chop shops. The buildings originally serviced cars– one was a Crown Gas service station in the 1950s, later Pine Street Motors, and the other was WN Watson Automotive– and influenced the concept’s clever name. That is about to change when an original concept named “Flock Shop” opens around the first of the year in Spartanburg and a few months later in downtown Greenville. Hot chicken is a hot concept, but other than Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack, who plans to open over a year from now along Laurens Road, the Upstate has seen little of it.
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