Category

South Carolina

Steak Charleston

FIG: Best Chef-in-Waiting at Seasonal Charleston Winner

Mike Lata’s farm-driven Charleston restaurant, FIG, consistently delivers culinary satisfaction. This year, Robert Stehling from cross-town Hominy Grill won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southeast. It just as easily could have been...
Read More
Restaurant Sign Johns Island

Fat Hen: French-Southern Fare Saves Islanders Charleston Drive [CLOSED]

Painted hen tracks led us inside Fat Hen, a better than expected French-Southern bistro from chef Fred Neuville and wife Joan. For the past six years, Neuville was Partner and Executive Chef at 39...
Read More
Restaurant Sign Charleston

High Cotton: Maverick Southern Rabbit and More in Charleston

I’d eaten at every other Charleston-area restaurant from Maverick Southern Kitchens, but for some reason, it took over eight years to have dinner at High Cotton, a downtown standby that delivered one of the...
Read More
Kiawah Island

Tides: Brunching Poolside a la Colicchio on Kiawah Island [CLOSED]

It doesn’t get much better than brunch with ocean views and a bottomless glass of sweet tea. Especially when the food is good, and it was on the poolside patio at Tides, the restaurant...
Read More
Restaurant Sign Charleston

Kitty’s Fine Foods: Classic Charleston Soul Food [CLOSED]

A faded Coca-Cola sign greeted us at Kitty’s Fine Foods on an industrial stretch of town, across from the International Longshoremen’s Association and down the street from the Port of Charleston. Feline figurines and...
Read More
Seafood Mount Pleasant

Langdon’s: Crossing Cooper River to Reach Mount Pleasant Star

Mount Pleasant native Patrick Langdon Owens bypassed culinary school and received a practical education at some of the finer restaurants in Charleston, including Magnolia’s and Circa 1886, before returning home to open Langdon’s in...
Read More