The Brinery’s Graceland sandwich layers pickle-brined fried chicken thigh with chili peanut sauce, napa cabbage, pickles and banana ketchup (Photo courtesy of The Brinery)

🍽️ Restaurant: The Brinery
📍 Location: 914 Main St., Sharpsburg
⏱️ Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Wed-Sat | 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sun | Closed Mon-Tues
🌐 Links: Facebook, Instagram

❤️ Best $15ish meal(s): The Graceland, bone-in pickle-brined fried chicken

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Why go?

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The Brinery is Joe Bardakos and Madi Donaldson’s Sharpsburg restaurant, built around the kind of scratch cooking Bardakos first became known for through food trucks: pickle-brined fried chicken, house-made bread, pickles and big, slightly offbeat sandwiches.
After a monthlong kitchen renovation and menu overhaul in early 2026, The Brinery kept several longtime favorites, including The Graceland, while adding smashburgers, wings, salads and sides such as pickle tots and a honey-butter cornbread biscuit.

What to order 

The $15 Graceland starts with a pickle-brined fried chicken thigh and adds chile-peanut sauce, Napa cabbage, pickles and banana ketchup on house-made bread. The sandwich takes its name from Elvis Presley and his famous affinity for peanut butter and banana. Bardakos has also said it honors his late father, who loved Elvis and fried chicken.

A basket of fried chicken wings covered in red sauce sits on a table, with other food dishes visible in the background.
A cardboard container with a fried chicken leg, a cheeseburger with pickles, and a small cup of sauce on a paper liner.
Fried whole chicken wings fill a paper-lined basket at The Brinery, with sandwiches and sides on the table behind them (left) and The Brinery’s Graceland sandwich layers pickle-brined fried chicken thigh with chili peanut sauce, napa cabbage, pickles and banana ketchup (right) (Photos courtesy of the Brinery)

Good to know before you go

The Brinery is BYOB, and Sharpsburg has two breweries nearby: Dancing Gnome is just down Main Street, while Hitchhiker Brewing is a little farther away on South Canal Street.

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