Charlotte likes new things. New restaurants are lauded as “game changers.” New chefs and menus are all-of-a-sudden “groundbreaking.” One or two comments later by local influencers, and they are “the best — trust us.”
We don’t always appreciate old.
That observation, made in a CharlotteFive feature on Brooks’ Sandwich House, could serve as the unofficial motto of a city that has spent the better part of two decades in a full sprint toward the future. Cranes crowd the skyline. Condos climb where bungalows stood. Neighborhoods transform so fast that the people who named them barely recognize them anymore…