What’s Hip … What’s Hot … What’s NEW! Downtown on Quarrier Street, Melange Café is a coffee shop that blends food cultures and tasteful twists to coffee drinks, baked treats, street tacos and burrito bowls. Nawab Fine Indian Cuisine uses high-quality, wholesome ingredients and house-toasted spices to craft dishes exploding with flavor. Locals rave about the super budget-friendly lunch buffet. Books and Brews serves up specialty pizzas, sandwiches and possibly the best pepperoni rolls in the area. The new European-style bakery Sokolata features gelato and stunning pastries and cakes just minutes from downtown, while Coal River Coffee Company roasts its own beans and bakes its own gluten-and dairy-free goods. ● WE’RE BETTING YOU’LL LOVE THE CHARLESTON AREA’S NEWEST ADDITIONS Shawnee Sports Complex A DRAMATIC $100 MILLION expansion and renovation to the Charleston Coliseum & Conven-tion Center nearly doubled its new 300,000-square-feet footprint. Im-provements include new concourse and ticketing areas, state-of-the-art meeting rooms, an onsite kitchen and catering facility, stunning glass-walled lobbies, a boat dock and public art. The Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences recently renovated its entire Juliet Art Museum, adding an interactive art space for children and an art studio for hands-on fun. In its Caperton Planetarium and Theater , a new 8K projection sys-tem screens 3-D films that take the audience to infinity and beyond. Shawnee Sports Complex is a new $18 million venue featuring six turf and 11 grass rectangular fields for soccer, lacrosse, football and rugby, 6 charlestonwv.com plus four new turf baseball fields, a renovated lodge, Olympic-size pool and outdoor basketball courts. Mountain State Distillery opened downtown in March 2019, offering walk-in sales of its inaugural whiskey, Southern Blend, a bourbon mash with corn, wheat and barley. Several new kids on the restaurant block are ready to serve you. From the owners of the popular Charleston Bread Company, Ristorante Abruzzi , located in Appalachian Power Park, serves up made-from-scratch pasta and breads, plus house-made authentic Italian dishes. The East End Pub is just a short walk from the beautiful State Capitol Complex. Enjoy traditional pub fare, including burgers, sandwiches and appetizers, or try the restaurant’s signa-ture East End eggrolls. Nawab Fine Indian Cuisine OUT WHAT’S NEW IN ALWAYS BE “IN THE KNOW” AB TONWV.COM THE CHARLESTON AREA. VISIT CHARLES Y E-NEWSLETTER! AND SIGN UP FOR OUR MONTHL
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