Chef Mark Bolchoz is building a restaurant empire under his Semper Elevatum Hospitality umbrella. Along with wife Ariana, he opened Cane Pazzo in June 2025, the best new restaurant in City Paper’s 2026 Best of Charleston awards. In mid-November 2026, Bolchoz will open Reenie’s, an old-world tavern in the former Dashi space at 1262 Remount Road. The new restaurant will marry traditions of the Lowcountry with those of the west coast of Ireland.
The name honors Bolchoz’s grandmother Maureen Calder-Bolchoz, the woman behind the menu at Mike Calder’s, a much-loved Irish pub that was a Charleston institution through the early 2000’s. While Calder’s had more of a deli feel than Reenie’s will, Calder-Bolchoz’s ethos will inform everything at the new spot, her grandson said.
“Everything she cooked was delicious,” Bolchoz said. “I don’t know that we’ll always have something that was on Calder’s menu, but we’ll always be inspired by it. Good food done very well and simply: I think that it will be a guiding principle for us.”
The restaurant will center around a wood-fired hearth with an Argentinian-style grill and will offer everything from seafood to charcuterie. As part of a renovation, the building’s façade will be redone, and the team is working with Berkeley County officials to fix drainage issues and repave the site’s notoriously bad parking lot…