Moe's Crosstown Tavern

“A Rutledge Avenue dive with the city's best smoked wings”

Moe's Crosstown Tavern is a Rutledge Avenue dive bar that happens to smoke some of the best wings in Charleston. The room is exactly what a good tavern should be — wood-paneled, pool table in the back, cheap beer on tap, open late into the night. It has never marketed itself as a barbecue destination, which is part of why the wings sneak up on people. This is a bar with a smoker out back and the discipline to use it right. The wings are the cult item: a deep mahogany bark that cracks when you bite through to juicy meat, finished with a vinegar-pepper hot sauce that lands just right. The pulled pork sandwich is the sturdy second order for anyone settling in for a few rounds. It is not a barbecue restaurant and does not want to be. It is a Crosstown institution that decided to do one smoked thing better than most dedicated pits, and then quietly did.