Since 2014, Red’s Ice House bar manager Kenny Puckett has been slinging cocktails at the establishment that he fondly referred to as the “last blue collar beach bar on Shem Creek.”
Bartending has always been in his blood, said Puckett, who at 19 years old cut his teeth in food and beverage by bar-backing in a restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Around 1990, when Puckett was 21, he moved to Hilton Head where he began working for the Crowley family, who at the time owned some 30 restaurants, including Red’s and Wild Wing Cafe.
Having bounced back and forth between Hilton Head and Charleston, as well as moving out West to snowboard in California and Colorado, Puckett came to realize…
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