Reinventing Fast Food

This week Black Bean Co. opens its West Ashley location, which was formerly a Burger King on Savannah Hwy. The fact that a former greasy fast food space is now a spot for healthy, all-natural, organic, and vegan foods is not a coincidence. Owner and chef Ellis...

Buon Appetito!

Popular Italian eatery Al Di La is whisking patrons away to Spoleto, Italy during Charleston’s annual Spoleto Festival USA starting this week. In honor of the annual international performing arts festival, Al Di La is offering diners a regional tasting menu of dishes...

The Good Stuff

In this hectic, bustling world, it’s easy to forget to stop and smell the roses. We all have too much work to do and too little time, so it can be quite tough to just relax and enjoy the good stuff once in a while. Luckily, after attempting to move too much furniture,...

Crisp, Creamy, Bitter

The warm and muggy days of summer are quickly approaching and one category of beer that goes hand in hand with summer is the wheat beers from Belgium, Germany, and the U.S. While the American wheat beers of the late ’80s and early ’90s were a pale imitation of their...

A Beer For Mom

Many wine drinkers I’ve known held the mistaken belief that, while their grape-derived beverage of choice is a complex and beautiful one, beer on the other hand is one-dimensional and brutish, a tonic for college kids and working men, something to be chugged ice cold...

Shrimp and Quinoa

Black Bean Company 1529 Savannah Hwy. www.blackbeanco.com With in the next couple weeks Black Bean Co. will open its newest restaurant in West Ashley in an old Burger King location along Savannah Highway. The location is appropriate as owner/chef Ellis Grossman is...

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