The Gifts that Keep on Giving
Your post-holiday guide for eating good in West Ashley on a budget in the New Year by Christine England | Contributing Writer I started in the restaurant industry at 15 and at 18 I became a bartender. Fast-forward a multitude of years, being married to a chef and...
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Restaurant Week Continues in Avondale
Don’t let your appetite wind down with the end of Charleston Restaurant Week. Because for the third year running, Avondale Restaurant Week begins where Charleston Restaurant Week let off. Slated for Monday, Sept. 15 and running through Sunday, Sept. 21, Avondale...
It’s Festival Season
With all the recent talk of the Marzen, autumn ale and Oktoberfest, one might have noticed that it is beer fest season. It is fall and of course this time of year and beer festivals just goes hand in hand. Be it the weather, cooler days and chilly nights, or the...
Bring Forth Fall
The taps are rapidly changing, and a transition is upon us in the beer world. Possibly my favorite time of year, we’re quickly approaching fall, and the autumn seasonals are all over the place. I realize my thinking about beer and seasons is a bit different than most...
A Different American Hop Bomb
Of all the styles of beer that are made by American brewers, IPA may be the most well known, with nearly every American crafter brewer offering their take on the style. And although the India Pale Ale is an historical English style of beer, we’ve certainly made it our...
Jamaica Day in the Carolinas
Celebrate “Jamaica Day in the Carolinas” during the S.C. Reggae Jerk and Wine Festival this Sunday, Aug. 24 at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Sponsored by Magnolia, Caribbean Rootz and Healthy Lifestyle Network, the event will be held from noon to 8 p.m. Local...
Late Summer Fare
The Dupont Brewery, Brasserie Dupont, sprang up in Wallonia, a French-speaking region of Belgium in 1844 on the site of a farm that had its own spring. The farm itself dating back to the 1700s. Dupont at Tourpes-Leuze is world famous for brewing a special style of...
Return To Lunch Lady Land
People always seem to complain about school lunches. But, truthfully, I have mostly fond memories of my grade school cafeteria. OK, so it wasn’t haute cuisine, but it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve eaten in my life either. Or maybe those memories of grade school lunches...
Season Creep
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...
A Honkin’ Good Time
Mellow Mushroom Avondale is teaming up with Goose Island Brewing this Thursday, Aug. 7 for a special five-course dinner, with each course paired with a different beer from the Chicago brewery. The dinner will get started at 7 p.m. with Mellow Mushroom pretzel bites,...
Dark and Wheaty
As we begin the slow, sometimes painfully long 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 beers of fall. Its barely August, and most of us in the south are...
