Port of Call Food Hall Opens in Charleston

Charleston once again has a food hall, and this time it’s on Market Street in the former Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. location. New venture Port of Call is now open at 99 South Market Street. The 10,000-square-foot space holds five vendors, offers a full bar with an emphasis on craft beers, and includes an outdoor dining area.

The food stalls include up-and-coming names like smoked meats spot Palmira BBQ, Asian fusion setup Bok Choy Boy, Greek grill house Bapkó, acai place Iaca Bowls, and raw bar Empire Oyster.

It seems that you can’t be a major culinary city without a food hall these days, so with the closing of Workshop earlier this year, Charleston was left without an adult cafeteria option. Port of Call now fills that void.

While the Market area hasn’t been a draw for locals in some time, the enthusiasm from the Port of Call vendors is an incentive to visit — many of the concepts, like Palmira and Bok Choy Boy, have followings from their pop-ups around town, and Empire Oyster claims to offer the largest raw bar on earth, “... Until proven otherwise ...”

Port of Call is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.