Holla at Ya’ Boy
Bok Choy Boy’s residency at Charles Towne Fermentory is a win-win-win, for chef, brewery, and customers by Lorne Chambers | Editor Charleston’s many food trucks and pop-ups are an exciting way to offer diners a different kind of cuisine every day of the week outside...
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Autumn Ambers Of Great Britain
With the passing of daylight savings time, we also bid farewell to the traditional fall seasonal beers. The Oktoberfest lagers gently and graciously faded into the background, while the pumpkin ales annoyingly continue to hang on for dear life. Thankfully, these brews...
A New Vintage
For the last seven years, Avondale Wine & Cheese has been much more than just a wine and cheese shop. It has been a meeting place for this dynamic community. The shop’s original owner, Manoli Davani, was well-known in Avondale. Fellow shop owners and patrons alike...
The End Of The Pumpkins
Happy Halloween, fellow beer lovers. I hope you are all having a fantastic fall. Here is a new seasonal combo that should provide a nice little surprise for your spooky season. 21st Amendment Brewery has been on my radar a good deal over the last two years. I first...
Cook It Raw
West Ashley will be the epicenter of the world’s avant garde cuisine scene for the next week, as chefs from all over the globe learn receive an intensive introduction to the “foodways” and products of the Lowcountry. Beginning Sunday, 28 internationally known chefs...
Fear and Loathing in Denver
A trip to the Great American Beer Fest with West Of's Beer Snob by Lorne Chambers | editor Long before the “craft beer” movement hit Charleston, West Of was running a beer column in its dining section. At first many thought a beer column was an odd thing for a...
Beer Snob Honors
Chocolate Rain (The Bruery) Possibly the best chocolate beer at the fest, and there were a few. This ran out every session and FAST. Chocolate double stout! Brandy-barrel Aged Impreial Pumpkin (Lakefront Brewing) Lots of pumpkin ales, few pumpkin lagers, and only one...
The Proof is in the Soup
As rainy days and cooler temperatures become the norm, a hot bowl of soup sounds evermore inviting. How fortunate that, in Charleston, it’s hard to be anywhere without local soup chain Ladles nearby. Jeff Biran and Kim Dover recently opened West Ashley’s second...
The Dark Pumpkin
We are now well into October, the bewitched month, a time of year when fall has generally arrived, and the rich hues and smells of autumn are everywhere. As in recent years, but in higher numbers, pumpkin products are rampant. From coffee to candy, baked goods to...
Barbecue historian Visits Home Team
Lake E. High Jr., president of the South Carolina Barbeque Association will make a pit stop at Fiery Ron's Home Team BBQ from 6 to 9 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 11. High is a former stock broker-turned historian/author/BBQ enthusiast. He's the former chairman of the South...
Creamy Pumpkin and Chorizo Bisque
Ingredients • 1 lb cooked pureed pumpkin • Medium yellow onion, diced • ½ pound Chorizo ground sausage • 2 pints half-and-half Directions 1. Sauté the chorizo and onions until cooked. 2. Add pumpkin and half-and-half. Simmer. 3. Whirl with immersion blender...
