A Star is Born
Blazing Star Café brings homemade bagels, bialy, and babka to West Ashley by Lorne Chambers | Editor Baker and restauranteur Bettina Fisher says certain foods have the power to evoke strong memories and nostalgia in people. One bite of something can send us back to...
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Seafood And Beer
Living in the Lowcountry, we are lucky in the recent years to have a fantastic supply of local and international craft beer to choose from, beers which should quench most any beer drinker’s thirst. But way before beer was a bullet point on the calling card of the...
Adding A Touch Of Malt
You are likely familiar with the English IPA. Hoppy but nowhere near as bitter as American versions, this British beer has become harder and harder to find these days. Still a great English IPA can be a satisfying beer. This week, however, the particular beer of...
Dark Ale, Meet Curry
Although I tend to think of myself as a traditionalist, at least where beer is concerned, there are time when throwing the old textbooks out the window is a very good thing. And although I have recently been quoted as saying something to the effect of wanting more...
A Thing Of Beauty
Much has been written in the column lately about the virtues of session beer. Those low alcohol yet tasty brews that you can return to over and over in an afternoon really are fantastic. Still, there is a place for the high gravity brews, some of them are the most...
Manny’s Opens Fourth Location
Manny's in West Ashley's Northbridge Plaza has been serving Greek and American food at family-friendly prices for 20 years. This is no easy feat in a rapidly growing, nationally-recognized restaurant town like Charleston. Owner Michael Stavrinakis says his recipe for...
The Session Saison
I’ve always been fascinated by the different new beers that show up at the beginning of a season. Its spring, so now old friends that I look for every March/April are met with half a dozen or so new titles, hoping to grab hold of the recent trends, or give the craft...
Shrimp Curry
Gathering Café 124 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. (843) 297-8380 gatheringwestashley.com Gathering Café chef/owner Nathan Conkle features this dish as more evidence of his commitment to the “farm-to-table” ethos he’s championed since opening Gathering Café in a former bakery....
Winter To Spring: and Transitioning from Ale to Lager
It is a bizarre time of year, possibly the strangest of all. The transition from winter to spring is often a rough one. As folks begin rousing from their hibernation, searching for those rare days of sun and 60+ degrees, Mother Nature is at her most schizophrenic....
