New two-story pub opens at Charlotte Knights’ ballpark

Catch up quick: Work began on the year-round pub at Truist Field in January.

Why it matters: Truist Field is much more than a ballpark. It’s a destination — it hosts everything from minor league baseball and college games with skyline views to a seasonal winter wonderland and, as was recently announced, outdoor hockey. A pub gives people another (non-baseball) reason to visit.

• More than five million people have visited the ballpark since it opened in 2014.

Details: The two-story pub includes an outdoor patio and an inside bar with sliding windows. It has a capacity of 125 people and opens daily at noon.  

• Pro Sports Catering, the Knights’ food and beverage partner, will oversee all food and drinks for the pub from permanently installed food trucks.
• Rodgers Builders is the general contractor on the project and O’Dell – A LaBella Company is the architect.

Menu: Drinks include classics like a Negroni ($12) and a sidecar ($14), plus signature drinks like the last of the Oaxacans (smokey mezcal mixed with marching liquor and green chartreuse; $15). They also serve canned and draft beers, non-alcoholic beers, seltzers and  wines.

• Pub food includes staples like wings ($12), loaded tots ($9), ballpark dog ($4.50) and pub burger sliders ($13) mini red velvet cake ($5) and a chocolate chip brownie ($4). Check out the full menu here.

Of note: Dogs are allowed on the outside patio, but not inside the pub. The pub accepts cash and card. You may enter the ballpark from the pub, but you must have a ticket to the game.

Context: The pub’s name honors the Virginia Paper Company building, which called the site home long before Truist Field was there.

What they’re saying: “After several brainstorming sessions, we felt that the pub should represent a historical connection to the Queen City,” Knights Chief operating officer Dan Rajkowski said in a statement. “Since the Virginia Paper Company occupied the northern parcel of the site since 1937, we decided on Paper Mill Pub as the name to our new addition at Truist Field.”

Take a look around. 

Editor’s note: This story was first published in January 2023 and was updated in May to reflect the pub’s opening date.