It has been a staple restaurant at Broadway at the Beach for 25 years, and it is closing
One of the original restaurants in Broadway at the Beach will soon be closing.
Liberty Brewery & Grill in Myrtle Beach’s sprawling entertainment complex will close on Jan. 26 after 25 years in operation, according to Homegrown Hospitality Group of Charleston, which operates the restaurant and microbrewery.
In an email to The Sun News, HHG owner Jerry Scheer said the company’s lease on the building with Broadway owner Burroughs & Chapin Co. expires at the end of May.
B&C is considering what to do with the lease space, according to company spokesman Jay Rodriguez of LHWH Advertising and Public Relations.
“Liberty Brewery and Grill has been serving guests at Broadway at the Beach since we opened 25 years ago,” the company said through Rodriguez. “It is unfortunate to see them leave. We are working on the next exciting offering for our guests.”
Liberty won’t go quietly, as HHG will celebrate its 25-year run with prizes, specials and giveaways throughout January.
There will be buy-one, get-one dinner entrees every Wednesday, complimentary Hoppin’ John and collards on Jan. 1 based on a Gullah new year tradition, a Farewell Mug Club Party on Jan. 20 offering Mug Club members complimentary food and discounted drinks, and a final Dog Days of Liberty Weekend Jan. 24-26 that will benefit the Grand Strand Humane Society.
The weekend will include a Taste of HHG on Jan. 24 featuring food stations for each HHG brand for $19.95 per person, and a final hurrah party on Jan. 25 featuring menu items from the past, live entertainment and an opportunity to take home HHG gift cards, Liberty memorabilia, a flat-screen TV and Charleston weekend vacation package.
Liberty serves its own line of draft beers that are brewed on site, as well as an assortment of steaks, burgers, sandwiches, tacos, pizzas, entrees, soups, salads, sides and desserts.
Mug Club memberships can transfer to HHG’s other Liberty concept restaurant in Myrtle Beach, Liberty Tap Room & Grill at 7651 N. Kings Hwy., where Liberty’s house brews will be available via an existing partnership with New South Brewery.
Scheer credits Liberty with allowing the company to finance and create many other HHG endeavors, growing to more than 20 business locations in the Carolinas and Georgia.
Homegrown Hospitality Group is still a prominent restaurant operator on the Grand Strand, also featuring Rioz Brazilian Steakhouse locations, TBonz Gill & Grill, Flying Fish Public Market & Grill, and Taco Mundo Kitchen y Cantina. HHG said in a release employees have been offered an opportunity to transfer to other restaurants within the company.
Its other restaurants in the Carolinas include Pearlz Oyster Bar and Kaminsky’s Dessert Cafe.
In an email to The Sun News in August, Scheer said the market has become more challenging. “Myrtle Beach, along with the entire restaurant industry, has gone through exponential changes,” he wrote. “During the next several months we will try and figure out how Liberty can maintain its relevancy in light of the current evolution of Myrtle Beach as well as the hospitality industry as a whole.”
