Birds & Brew
Local businesses team up to give away 150 turkeys and support Lowcountry Food Bank by: Kim Boerman | Contributing Writer Thanksgiving is coming early to West Ashley as Edisto River Brewing Co. and Pepper’s Pressure Washing join forces for Birds & Brews, a...
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Avondale Restaurant Week Is Back
If you didn’t get your fill of discounted meals during Charleston Restaurant Week, don’t worry. For the last several years, immediately following the semi-annual “foodie-friendly” event held by The Charleston Restaurant Association, several Avondale restaurants host...
Home Team Shows Its Caribbean Soul
Back in March, Home Team BBQ in West Ashley hosted its first Booze & Bites event, which featured smoky eats from the popular BBQ joint paired with select whiskeys from Woodford Reserve. Then in May the second event in the Booze & Bites series was held at Home...
Bring Forth The Fest
The taps are rapidly changing, and a transition is upon us. Oktoberfest officially started last week, and with it comes the autumn seasonal beer that represents and often tastes like it’s namesake time of year. And the beer you need to know, the amber lager of fall,...
The Cellar Experience
Although we’re currently seeing growth in the West Ashley food and beverage business sector, Cellar Experience owner and operator Wendy Keefer once lamented the lack of options for those residents on this side of the drawbridge. Keefer wanted to offer regularly...
Get Your Last Taste Of Summer
As we begin the slow, sometimes painful descent into fall, you will likely see fewer and fewer summer beers available in stores and on taps, many being replaced by the darker and more robust autumn fare. By September, most of us in the south are quite ready for the...
A Little Taste Of Autumn
We’ve made it to September. And sure just last week I was complaining about “season creep,” but this month I generally think of as the turning point. While the fall equinox may still weeks away, what does that day really mean in the south? Late September could be...
A Collaborative Craft Dinner
It only makes sense that Charleston’s world-class culinary scene and emerging craft brewing scene would collide. This has never been more evident with the fifth annual Charleston Beer Week kicking off next week. West Ashley will play host to several events this year,...
‘Season Creep’ Has Officially Arrived
It was July 20 and Southern Tier’s Pumpking, the brewery’s monster fall seasonal Imperial release, a beer of 8.6 percent alcohol by volume (ABV), rich, sweet flavors, and spicy, mouthfilling cold weather goodness, was already on shelves. Along with it, there sat...
Smoke on the Windermere
Earlier this year it was announced that Wild Hare Smokehouse would be opening in the space formerly occupied by longtime West Ashley restaurant Med Bistro (a.k.a. The Med Eatery & Bar). But when the plans fell apart for Wild Hare, their chef, who was now out of a...
A True Taste of Spain
Last week was the debut of West Of’s new food writer, Rachel Castajón. She is a local food blogger and photographer who will be contributing regularly to West Of’s dining section. She, along with her husband Alfonso, is also one-half of The Castajóns, a Spanish food...
