The Glass Onion Breaks a Few Eggs
Popular West Ashley restaurant now serving breakfast, brings back Saturday brunch by Lorne Chambers | Editor For 17 years, venerable West Ashley eatery The Glass Onion has been a model of consistency. Owner and executive chef Chris Stewart has tweaked a few things...
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Turning Back the Clock
In 1974 Steve Miller Band had a hit with The Joker, Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles was tops at the box office, Gerald Ford had just taken office, and pizza and beer were cheap. This Saturday, in honor of the year the very first Mellow Mushroom opened in Atlanta, Mellow...
Time For Tea
The 62nd annual Tea Room and Gift Shop sponsored by St. Andrew’s Parish Church (Old St. Andrew’s) will be held March 16-28. Lunch is served Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and features Lowcountry favorites from time honored recipes. The Tea Room menu...
Spring Is Here
Spring has finally sprung. The weather is all over the chart, some good, and some bad. Warmer days, cooler nights, sun, rain, wind, we’ve got it all. During these wildest of pre-summer months, which beers are serviceable and which, if any, just don’t cut it?...
Here’s To The Green Isle
Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is said to have driven the snakes out of the emerald isle. Whether there were ever snakes there in the first place is up for debate. However, we are sure that Ireland has beer to offer, and there is no better time of year to...
Light It Up Blue
For the second year, Al Di La is joining the crusade to raise awareness about Autism. During the month of March, the Avondale neighborhood trattoria is donating 10 percent of their Tuesday night sales to two Charleston-based Autism charities, Surfers Healing and...
All Praise Beer
Thousands of beer enthusiasts descended upon the Coast Brewery property on the old Navy base last weekend as the sixth annual Brewvival welcomed dozens of brewers from all over the country. While bone-chilling winds whipped down Noisette Creek, the rain at least held...
The Manny’s Empire Grows
Manny's Neighborhood Grille announced recently that it is opening three additional franchise units centered on concepts of the longtime West Ashley Mediterranean restaurant. Michael Stavrinakis, President of Manny’s Franchise has entered a contract with Eric Valera...
Bring Out Your Red
Red beer seems like an extremely boring descriptor, but many examples that fit under this seemingly vague category can be quite tasty, if not glorious. If, where you live, winter is still hanging on, and, like me, you’re not yet ready to give up the ales of the...
In-Between Winter & Spring
With the first day of spring still a month away, and warmer weather seemingly nowhere in sight, I don’t yet feel the need to break into the moderate beers. It seems that many breweries use February to release several big beers. After pints and pints of double this,...
Hopslam or Hypeslam?
I’m really not sure if this should have been an omen, but a friend texted me to say that his local Harris Teeter just got a few cases of Hopslam. I was not at home, much less near his store, and was pretty certain I would be able to get my own 6-pack either through my...
