Cocktail Bar · Charlotte

The Crunkleton

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The Crunkleton is the Elizabeth cocktail bar and restaurant with one of the deepest beverage programs in Charlotte. Classics get made properly here, and the brown spirits list goes further than anywhere else in the city. Weekend brunch comes with a nine drink cocktail list to match the food. The room is built for conversation, which sets it apart from the speakeasy style bars around town.

What to know

A $180 tomahawk steak and eggs is built to feed four.
Hearth charred wings come with house hot sauce and buttermilk blue cheese.
The espresso martini and the Bloody Mary are the brunch orders.
The same owners run Rosemont and Puerta nearby.

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Spotlight story A Franklin Street idea in Elizabeth: how Gary Crunkleton brought his bar to Charlotte He bought a 1952 Western Auto store on Chapel Hill's Franklin Street in 2008 and built a bar with five hundred spirits and bow-tied bartenders. Eleven years later he opened the Charlotte version on Elizabeth Avenue, added a kitchen, and gave the city its deepest brown-spirits list. Read the story →

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Oct 7, 2026 THC drinks face a federal limit on December 11, and Charlotte bars and distributors are already pulling back 5 min read

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