The Road to Better Coffee
With trendy new café, Interstate 95 now runs through the heart of West Ashley by Lorne Chambers | Editor A couple years ago, Barak Cabba was driving back home to Charleston from a trip to Miami when a crazy idea popped into his head. Maybe it was all the espresso, or...
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The Incredible Edible Egg
Deviled eggs are a popular staple of most southern parties and celebratory events. There are tons of ways to stuff an egg and family recipes are often passed down over the generations to spice up the way to prepare and serve them. In honor of National Deviled Egg Day...
Dark Side Of The Pumpkin
Happy Halloween fair readers, may the ghouls and goblins miss you this weekend, and hopefully your sweet tooth bounty will be full and delightful. Fall is in full swing and the holiday season begins, so hang on tight friends, here we go. As we rocket toward maximum...
Happy Hour in the Great Outdoors
This fall Old Towne Creek County Park turned select Tuesdays into “Brewsdays,” and select Wednesdays became “Wine Down Wednesdays.” Over the next couple weeks, the final installment of each will take place at Old Towne Creek County Park, which is not yet regularly...
New Beers Released Every Day
New beers are released every day, I’m sure of it. And by new, I mean beers that have never before existed. Such is the world we live in, with the dizzying array of new breweries offering standards as well as fascinating original creations, it’s no surprise that you...
Spilling the Beans
Beans, beans the magical fruit… But wait, beans aren’t fruit are they? Well, kind of. They are a legume, which are often considered a vegetable but a legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae, or the fruit or seed of such a plant. Legumes include beans, peas, lentils,...
Good Gourds
At a great little pizza joint a few weeks ago, I ordered a pint of Dogfish Head Punkin. One of my favs, this beer offers a brown ale base with pumpkin flavors and brown sugar on top. Quite nice. However, my buddy gave me some stick for the selection, saying that he...
The German / American Fest Beer
The 16 days of Oktoberfest 2015 will have come and gone; another fantastic festival in the beer books with the traditional gun-salute finale on the steps of the Bavaria Monument at the Theresienwiese fairground at noon on Saturday, October 6. The Märzen will have...
Grassroots Wine Takes Center Stage
The Glass Onion is hosting the next tasting in a series of monthly onsite beverage events from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30 This tasting will feature “lesser known and affordable” wines from Grassroots Wine, a wholesaler whose portfolio is filled with small,...
Fall For Oktoberfest
It’s all happening. This week’s sees us usher in the first day of fall, Sept 23, also known as the autumnal equinox, when the sun shines directly on the equator, and day and night are nearly equal in length. Just as, if not more important, last week, on Sept. 19, gave...
Kickin’ Chicken Raises $11,457 for Teacher’s Supply Closet
On Wednesday, Sept. 2, The Kickin’ Chicken presented a check totaling $11,457 to Don Hall, the Executive Director of Teacher’s Supply Closet, a West Ashley-based non-profit organization that provides teachers with supplies needed for their classroom that they would...
