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Food and beer hall opens in South End

CHARLOTTE — The Eagle Food & Beer Hall is now serving its signature fried chicken in South End.

That 5,000-square-foot restaurant officially joins the lineup at Atherton Mill after more than a year of Covid-related delays, says Joe Lanni, president and co-founder of Cincinnati-based Thunderdome Restaurant Group.

“It’s been a long time coming,” he says.

[Interactive light display to illuminate South End]

Thunderdome was forced to cease operations and furlough 1,300 employees as the pandemic pressured restaurants in 2020. The Eagle in South End is Thunderdome’s first restaurant to open in about a year.

“It was time to get back to the business of opening some restaurants instead of closing them,” Lanni says.

Read more about the restaurant and check out photos here.