Restaurants/Food

For the fusion food movement fans out there in Augusta who wonder what happened to their favorite restaurant, The Fuse, Head Chef Najmola bounced back from the expired lease at 10th Street and Broad and took it to Aiken, where it is now Fuse in Aiken. “Y’all come,” he says to any Augustans who miss their place. Fuse was founded in 2015 by sister and brother Karen and Eric Draper, out of the desire to deliver great food combined with craft beer to their guests, explained Chef Najmola, who was

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Monday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad and the tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. This real restaurant review was written in May

ABD’s learned that an unnamed real estate developer in the CSRA has signed on with Wild Wing Café corporate to build three new Wild Wing prototype stores in Richmond and Columbia County, with a 2022 completion date for all three. The developer attended recent franchisee meetings in the Southeast with a small group of CSRA business leaders who came as a show of support. Former Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver, now a business consultant and author was a keynote speaker at one of the Wild Wing Café events. The Scholer family

After years of selling his own hot sauce brand, Mark Alison decided to try his hand at creating a new chicken wing sauce. After experimenting with various flavor combinations, the ’64 Wing Sauce was born. The name celebrates the first chicken wing sold at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York in 1964. Alison – former owner of marketing firm, Alison & Associates Inc. in Augusta, wanted to create a sauce with a sweet, citrusy flavor without much heat. He chose key lime as one ingredient and tried different sweeteners,

If you’re missing the hush puppies at T’s Seafood Restaurant, you’re not alone. A recent Facebook post about T’s opening a second location in North Augusta sparked concern among local residents who wondered if the long-time restaurant was leaving South Augusta for North Augusta since the word T’s will presumably be in the name. ABD has learned the owner hopes to reopen the location at 3416 Mike Padgett Highway by next spring. T’s, which was founded over 70 years ago, has been closed since Labor Day 2020 when a fire

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Monday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad and the tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”.

Editor’s Note: Planning a business lunch? Wondering where to take your client? Our ABD Business Lunch Restaurant Reviews offer honest insights on where you should and should not go for lunch. (First published – May 31, 2021) Reviews are based on our 5-star rating system, with one being poor and five being excellent. Bon Appétit! Food Quality: 5 Service: 5 Business Meeting: 3 Value: 4 Average Score: 4.25 of 5 When I first heard the concept of Your Pie, I thought it was genius. I tried it in Athens and