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Hello Deli: The best Reuben in town?
BY ROB YOUNG
Special to The Post and Courier
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he Hello Deli comes by way of its memorable owner: Nathan Harvey, a Charleston restaurant veteran whose last venture was the eponymously named Nathan’s Deli on Ashley River Road. These days, Nathan operates from the old Franco’s restaurant on Mall Drive, near North Charleston City Hall and the Verizon Wireless Call Center. He helps prepare breakfast and lunch Monday through Saturday, serving meals many of his former patrons might recognize. Breakfast brings lox, onion and eggs, challah French toast, and Belgian waffles, while lunch delivers specialty sandwiches such as a Dagwood-style,
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ROB YOUNG
if you go
Just another metal Monday The Specs, mans the bar Monday nights. I knew that on the Monday after metal legend Ronest Ashley’s Tin nie James Dio passed Roof is one of my away May 16 that Krauss favorite bars, bar none (is would be sympathetic that redundant?), espeto this important loss to cially on Monday nights. rock ’n’ roll. The Tin Roof is just as Strolling into Tin Roof much a live music venue on that Monday night, as a bar, and on any given things were casual, but night, you can find live Shawn was armed and acts. ready, playing Dio’s Monday is probably one best-known hits “Holy of the nights you’re least Diver” and “Rainbow likely to hear live bands. in the Dark” along with But never fear, especially probably his most wellif you’re a heavy metal known his Rainbow-era fan, Tin Roof’s got you tune “Man on the Silver covered. Mountain.” Bartender Shawn After paying homage Krauss, also a drumto Dio, a steady stream mer for the local band of yesterday’s metal, evBY JACK HUNTER
Special to The Post and Courier
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WHAT: Hello Deli. ADDRESS: 2409 Mall Drive, North Charleston. PHONE: 554-3354 HOURS: 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Mon.-Sat.
triple-decker club sandwich, and the Sailor with knockwurst, pastrami and Swiss cheese. One thing’s for sure: Reuben skills, this man has. Served open- or closedfaced, the sandwich ($6.99) arrives on grilled, butterysoft marble bread, filled thick with corned beef or pastrami, sauerkraut, melted Swiss cheese and creamy Russian dressing. It’s a heavenly piece of work. Similarly, the Monte Cristo ($6.99), containing slices of turkey and baked ham, Swiss cheese and Russian dressing, also comes on marble bread.
While another show stopper, the Asheville Special ($6.99), gathers homemade turkey and havarti cheese onto grilled, wheatberry bread, which is smeared with cranberry mayonnaise. Otherwise, the Hello Deli offers several traditional hot or cold sandwiches — rare roast beef, roast brisket, liverwurst and additional kosher meats, for instance — on a variety of breads such as rye, white, whole wheat and Kaiser. Overall, it’s a tasty deli, fine enough to merit a visit, and, yes, hopefully, repeated hellos from its patrons.
Courage. Vigor. Determination. Verve. Skill. Pep. Know-how.
erything from Slaughter to Dokken was enjoyed, and while no one was banging their heads per se, we were all smiling. Nostalgia tends to do that. And such healthy heap-o-helpings of metal is par for the course on Mondays at Tin Roof. While nothing can compete with the legendary Charleston Metal Mondays made famous at the defunct Cumberland’s and now Wet Willies, when those “Haireoke” guys take a hiatus (as they sometimes do), might I suggest fans of that genre pay Shawn a visit at Tin Roof, where he’s always glad to oblige.
if you go
WHAT: Tin Roof. ADDRESS: 1117 Magnolia Road. PHONE: 571-0775. HOURS: 4 p.m.-2 a.m. daily. HAPPY HOUR: 4-8 p.m.
Bartender Shawn Krauss, drummer for the local band The Specs, works at the Tin Roof on Monday nights. Expect to hear the finest in metal when he is behind the bar. JACK HUNTER