A Cold Shoulder to Lean On
New gourmet sandwich shop opens in Northbridge Shopping Center by Lorne Chambers | Editor West Ashley has no shortage of chain sandwich shops, there are three Subways, two Jersey Mike’s, a Firehouse Subs, a Jiimmy Johns, and a Panara Bread over here. Not to...
MORE DINING
This Buds For You … Not Me
There’s been a lot of talk about Budweiser lately. Some say it’s a bitter, angry old company that’s lost the plot and have become irrelevant. I think that’s a stretch, Anheuser-Bush (AB) still makes significant amounts of money selling beer. Others think Bud’s Super...
Tabbuli Brings Taste of the Mediterranean to West Ashley
Well known for its innovative nightlife and Mediterranean-inspired dishes, popular downtown restaurant Tabbuli has expanded to West Ashley. Located in the space formerly occupied by 7 Café and Juan’s Mexicali Restaurant, Tabulli’s West Ashley location will offer both...
Beer For An Empress
Stout ale, the darkest of the family, has made an amazing recovery in the last decade. It was not long ago when the only stout to be had in the USA was Guinness. You could do worse for a beer option, but even doing worse was not possible if you wanted a worse stout....
The Sweet Spot
As a three-time winner of The Knot’s “Best of Weddings,” Ashley Bakery has earned a professional reputation not only for incredible decorating skills, but also for delicious cakes. So when they offered to make West Of a special “birthday” cake for our 10th anniversary...
Cold Nights Ahead
The darkest, strongest, most flavorful, and complex of all the stout family of ales is the Russian Imperial Stout. The British, makers of the world’s finest beers, brewed their export stouts and porters to be powerful and alcoholic to withstand the long journey across...
Warm Up to Good Food and Good Beer
The Middleton Place Restaurant will celebrate the beers of winter on Saturday, Jan. 24 with the 5th annual Braise & Brew beer dinner at Middleton Place. Braise & Brew is a feast of braised food prepared by the Middleton Place Restaurant paired with beers...
Beer In Print
I once subscribed to Paste magazine. I quite enjoyed it; not exactly sure why I didn’t renew my subscription. I recently came across a box of old issues and they look to have run from around 2005 to 2007. That was a tough and exhausting year, so likely I just didn’t...
Top Draft Picks
In compiling its annual list of “America’s 100 Best Beer Bars, 2015,” DRAFT magazine editors and writers say they spent the last year “zig-zagging around the country, drinking pints, chatting with bartenders, and spinning around in bar stools.” No doubt lots of...
Magical Beer Mecca
For me to tell beer enthusiast to visit Belgium almost sounds redundant, if not ridiculous. Of course any suds sipper worth their salt would be interested in a visit to one of the great historical homes of beer. Of the important European brew countries, it could...
Let’s Go Out to Eat
You might just want to put that New Year’s Resolution on hold for another week … or 11 days. That’s because Charleston Restaurant Week, one of the most highly anticipated culinary events for locals in the greater Charleston area will begin this Wednesday, Jan. 7 and...
