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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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...
The Queen City on the Rise
It’s no secret that North Carolina has become a darling in the world of craft beer, a destination like few others, and likely the hottest of the southeastern spots for the good suds stuff. Certainly other states are progressing quite well, and South Carolina is no...
Chu ‘Empire’ Expands
West Ashley restaurateur Kelly Chu, it seems, is never satisfied. First, it was West Ashley, then it was Mt. Pleasant, and tomorrow, the world. First, her father opened one of the area’s favorite Chinese takeout restaurants, the now-gone Joy Luck on St. Andrews...
Hogs With A Heart
Home Team BBQ will once again be a part of Hogs For The Cause Charleston on Saturday, Oct. 3 at The Grove at Patriot’s Point. Hogs for the Cause, a 501 (c)3 nonprofit charity event, raises money to provide aid and relief of expenses for families whose children are...
Not Just Blowing Smoke
“Nothing is ever free. If you don't reinvest in the community that supports you, how long do you think you will thrive? How do you gain the respect of those who support you with out earning it,” asks Swig & Swine co-owner and pitmaster Anthony DiBernardo. It’s...
Local Institution Catches Fire
Manny’s Neighborhood Grille, a West Ashley institution for more than two decades, will be closed for at least the next month due to a fire last Wednesday in the bar area of the restaurant. Or it could end up moving from its current home on Old Towne Road, according to...
Happy Pumpkin Days
The upcoming fall season has already provided us with an open door to numerous wonderful flavorful offerings. The Oktoberfests, the autumn ales, the pumpkin beers, ah yes, the pumpkin beers. As the pumpkin beers are now everywhere from every brewery imaginable, you...
The September Beer
It’s September, I can’t believe it. As a kid, the belief I held was that each season got three months. Winter equaled Christmas, New Year, and the –uary months, when there was any chance of snow. Spring was March, April and May, flowers, bunnies and such. Summer...
Fall Flavors Are Here
The first day of autumn is still a month away, but in the craft beer world, it might as well be full on fall. And it’s the fall releases that signal a deluge of seasonal beers which will continue on throughout the winter months and shall not stop until the end of...
A Real Sausage Fest
Before he opened d.d. Pecker’s Wing Shack on Savannah Highway, Derek Harris was a teacher and an assistant principal at Porter Gaud for a decade. It was while there that Harris became close friends with Randy Clark, principal of the Middle School and longtime varsity...
