Agriculture, clean water and wine are three things that local entrepreneurs Amy and Rob Kuchar are passionate about. Rob hails from a rural farming community on the outskirts of Flint, Michigan, while Amy grew up in downtown Flint, a city known lately mostly for its water quality issues.   The Kuchars started a small Charlotte- based wine distribution company in ...

Flying Machine Brewing Co. co-founders Grant Steadman and David Sweigart have announced plans to expand their business by opening a second location at 530 Causeway Drive in Wrightsville Beach.   Steadman and Sweigart purchased Banks Channel Pub from Ashley Adams and Doug Barker on May 15. Neal DePersia and Chris Thorpe of DePersia & Associates LLC represented bo ...

Stalk & Vine owner Zac Brown announced via social medial last week that his bar and restaurant would be closing for good in the wake of COVID-19.   “Our 9 months of operations were riddled with a short first summer, Hurricane Dorian, the first slow winter, and then the COVID-19 pandemic.” Brown said in a Facebook post on May 29.  The fact of the ...

Chris Levesque, owner of Whiskey Trail, has announced plans for the opening of a second location this summer.   Whiskey Trail Midtown is expected to open at 3525 Lancelot Lane, in the building that formerly housed Dig & Dive.   The volleyball courts will no longer be a part of the complex, but according to Levesque, that portion of the land will be the si ...

Robert Pickens, owner of Kornerstone Bistro, has opened a second restaurant, Tidewater Oyster Bar, in Porters Neck Center. The restaurant held a soft opening this past weekend, and is open this week for dinner, with plans to open for lunch shortly.   Located in the former K-Bueno Norte space just across Market Street from Kornerstone, Tidewater Oyster Bar features N ...

While restaurants have been granted the ability to open for dine-in service at 50% capacity, some restaurant owners have chosen to stay with a carry-out only model for the time being. Danny McPherson, one of the owners of Brunches at Mayfaire Community Center and King Neptune Restaurant in Wrightsville Beach, told the GWBJ earlier this month that he did not plan on open ...

The Donut Inn will celebrate the grand opening of its second location in the Harris Teeter shopping center at the corner of Porters Neck Road and Market Street on Monday, June 1. Owners Allen Renquist and Matt Anlyan said in a statement that after three years of serving locally roasted coffee, bagels, breakfast sandwiches and handmade donuts at the Military Cutoff locat ...

Rosé Water, a wine and sparkling water hybrid created in Wilmington, is hitting the shelves locally and throughout the U.S. just in time for summer. Co-founders Amy and Rob Kuchar said they wanted to bring an all-natural, lower-alcohol product to the wine market. “Today’s consumer is focused on health and wellness in all aspects of their life,&rdqu ...

Burney’s Sweets & More is coming to Mayfaire Community Center, filling the former Duck Donuts spot, a Mayfaire spokeswoman confirmed this week. The bakery, founded in Elizabethtown in 2011 by Thomas and Doris Burney, is today owned by Michael and Gina Burney, who still operate the Elizabethtown location. Since its founding, nearly a dozen location ...

RAWsalsa 102 Old Eastwood Road, Wilmington    No. of employees: 1   Year founded: 2017   Top local official: Rachel Ann Willoughby, owner   Company description: RAWsalsa is a local, independent maker and seller of smallbatch, fresh salsas.   Products made locally: The company makes its signature fresh tomato and fresh pineapple sals ...