by: Bryant "Pops" Helton, Wine Director The String Bean It all started fifteen months ago while minding my weekly wine inventory, I received yet another call that day…likely a customer searching for a difficult-to-locate bottle of wine. When I heard the voice, “This...
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Join us for a Memorable Wine and Food Experience
To celebrate Women’s History Month and to bring you an amazing dining experience, we are excited to announce a very special wine dinner on Monday, March 25th, 2019 at 7 p.m. As you may know, March is National (and International) Women's History Month. Accordingly, we...
Special Wine Dinner – Monday February 11th Featuring Spanish Wines and Cuisine
What better way to celebrate Valentine's with your significant other than at The String Bean for a wine dinner featuring authentic Spanish cuisine and world-class Spanish wines - to include an historic Priorat! Come and learn from our distinguished host and...
Tips To Make Christmas Dinner Easy
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That is, unless you’re the one hosting the giant family dinner this year. We get it: it’s amazing to see your loved ones during the holiday season. Nothing makes us happier than spending time with our family over food. After...
Holiday Wine Tasting Monday December 17th and Wine Events
On December 17th, 2018, The String Bean is hosting its Annual Holiday Wine Tasting, especially fun for “wine-shoppers” looking for gift ideas or great quality and/or value wine selections to enjoy during winter holidays. This is a "drop-in" event to be held from 6...
New Menu Items!
Once a year, The String Bean gets everyone together to create some new dishes to update our menu with. This year we’ve added several appetizers, a pizza and brought back a fan favorite from way back in the day. In total we’ve added 9 new items to our menu, and we...
Join us this fall for wine tastings and special dinners
One of the things we love doing at The String Bean is sharing our love of good wine and food. Join "Pops Helton', our director of wine, one or more of the wine events scheduled for the fall and into the holiday season. Date are as follows: Monday Oct 1st - Fall Wine...
Holidays With The String Bean
If you’re anything like me, you love being the host of parties, but you hate cooking. I adore having family over for the holidays and for big dinners, but I’ll be the first to admit that you probably don’t want me cooking your food. I’m no good in the kitchen....
Seven Oaks Cafe now open at McLean
The McLean community located on Lake Wylie adjacent to Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden is adding a restaurant to compliment its neighborhoods currently under development. Seven Oaks Café will open this fall in the historic John Davidson McLean house on Armstrong Road, a house that is on the Gaston County Historic Register and one that was renovated in 2014 and reopened early in 2015.
The String Bean will soon add another location in Shelby
We are pleased to announce that The String Bean Shelby will be opening a new location in the heart of Uptown Shelby across from the Earl Scruggs Center. We are in the midst of renovating a 15,000 square foot building that will include a market and dining on the main...