Apr 9, 2014
“We don’t claim to be chefs. We just cook and prepare food very well,” says Jeannie Dillon of Foodies Café and Catering. Since its opening late last year on Sam Rittenberg Boulevard in what used to be a Kentucky Fried Chicken, Foodies has quietly built a reputation...
Apr 9, 2014
Full disclosure, friends: I had my first Bell’s Oberon of the year this week. I know, I know. I can hear it now: “Beer Snob, it’s just barely spring! Hey, that’s a wheat beer! A summer beer! Aren’t you a self-proclaimed ‘seasonal drinker?” In my defense, the...
Apr 2, 2014
The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission invites the Lowcountry to get another sneak peek of a future park this spring. In April, Wine Down Wednesday returns to Old Towne Creek County Park. Old Towne Creek County Park is not yet regularly open to the...
Apr 2, 2014
The Vernal Equinox is upon us. And although as you’re reading this column there just as likely a chance of ice and freezing rain as there is sunshine, you should be ready to switch beer gears. So it might be time to lighten up, however slightly, with your beer choice....
Mar 26, 2014
Guypaula Deen-Fieri, the bastard lovechild of two celebrity chefs, has announced that West Ashley will be the site of her next upscale pudding pop restaurant, Suck This! Not surprisingly, Deen-Fieri said her recipes marry the two disparate culinary styles of her...
Mar 26, 2014
The craft beer revolution is well and truly upon us West Ashley. Where once we were limited to the workmanlike efforts of Palmetto Brewing and the scattered attempts from others, in 2007 the floodgates were flung open. Where once there was a barely discernible...