4 new restaurants just dropped at Camp North End in Charlotte
BayHaven Restaurant Group, owned by powerhouse restaurant owners Gregory “Greg” Collier and Subrina Collier, is bringing four new restaurants to Camp North End this summer.
All of these restaurants will be Black-owned and run by the Colliers, Jasmine Macon and Justin Hazelton, who have worked in Collier-owned restaurants.
“Over the past several years, we’ve built amazing relationships with the Camp North End team and exceptional Black culinarians in the Charlotte community,” Subrina Collier said in a statement. “We felt that supporting these new concepts was a combination of the right time, place and people and the next step in our mission to enhance economic empowerment and community development through the hospitality industry.”
“We are huge advocates of cohesiveness within creativity,” said Greg Collier. “We believe each brand will stand on its own with its menu, technique and design but will still make sense together. It’s kinda like cousins — in the same family but still very different. We can’t wait to bring these concepts to life.”
Here’s what we have to look forward to, Charlotte:
- B.A.D.: A counter-service doughnut shop will be opened by former Leah & Louise pastry chef and Johnson & Wales University alum Jasmine Macon, who started by hosting doughnut popups. She will serve donuts, fritters and cinnamon rolls, with both staple flavors and rotating seasonal menu items.
- Bird is the Word: A new counter-service restaurant highlighting chicken dishes will be run by Greg Collier. It will feature the Leah & Louise chicken sandwich, a weekly smoked chicken family meal, chicken stew, chicken fat donuts and seasonal Southern sides. Bird is the Word will share a covered heated patio with B.A.D.
- Passage Seafood: This modern fish camp run by the Colliers will focus on seasonal Atlantic seafood, oysters, raw fish, rotating menu of whole fish, composed vegetables and whole fish charcuterie. It will have indoor and outdoor seating.
- The Abyss: A modern speakeasy, led by award-winning Leah & Louise mixologist Justin Hazelton, will be next door to Passage Seafood. With 40 seats and a darker, more soultry motif, the Abyss will focus on craft cocktails and will serve dishes from Passage Seafood as well as a modern diner menu, served late night.
PLAN YOUR VISIT: These restaurants will be clustered together with a hallway leading to shared restrooms in between.
- B.A.D. and Bird is the Word will be next to each other on one side, with the other side for Passage Seafood next to The Abyss on the other.
- The restaurants will be located at Camp North End’s Crossroads District: 201 Camp Road.
BayHaven Restaurant Group was formed in April 2021 by the Colliers, who hosted the BayHaven Food and Wine Festival this past fall at Camp North End. The festival was inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and was a celebration of Black foodways. The Colliers are also behind the restaurants Leah & Louise and Uptown Yolk.
[Related: Uptown Yolk returns in Charlotte — but this time, it will be in South End]
Camp North End’s Crossroads District
Location: 201 Camp Rd, Charlotte, NC 28206
Neighborhood: Lockwood/Druid Hills South
Instagram: @campnorthend
This story was originally published February 1, 2022 at 7:33 AM.
