Bertha's Kitchen wins $50,000 national grant to help small restaurants

MORNING HEADLINES | Bertha’s Kitchen, an enduring Gullah restaurant in North Charleston, is one of 50 restaurants across the country to win a $50,000 grant to help culinary landmarks.

Each grant in the program, which is fueled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express, helps restaurants upgrade and grow their businesses, enabling improvements to historic buildings. Up to $10,000 can be used for general operating expenses. The “Backing Historic Small Restaurants” program, which began in 2020 as a pandemic response, has since helped 180 historic small restaurants and has granted more than $8 million in every U.S. state, plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

“These restaurants demonstrate the power that places hold. For generations, nei