Perhaps you’ve never heard of Dry January. Good for you. The idea is pretty simple: as a way to lessen the load on your liver, kickstart your health goals and begin your year on a booze-free footing, you don’t drink alcohol for the first month of the year.
Their responses form the foundation of our Northeastern transplant’s dining survival guide to Charleston: a delicious, maybe even nutritious, directory to Lowcountry restaurants and retailers that can help hungry, homesick Yankees satiate their nostalgia for flavors they first encountered on the other side of the Mason-Dixon Line.
The Charleston area this year was blessed with a tremendous set of new restaurants, a pattern established back in March when Vandy Vanderwarker and Will Love opened Maison on upper King Street.
These holiday-themed and flavored craft beers at Charleston breweries are sure to get you rockin' around the Christmas tree.
If you're headed downtown for a drink this December, here's a curated list of Charleston's "12 cocktails of Christmas" to get you in the holiday "spirits."
With skyrocketing rents and less room to wiggle, Charleston proper isn’t the easiest place to run a slim-margined, no-frills, deep-fried dive these days.
The bourbon-gravy shot is available all week.
Lone Wolf Lounge is everything you want a cocktail bar to be: cozy and comfortable; cool, but not corny; dark enough to fade away in, but not so dark you can’t see your drinking companion’s fa…
If you're not spending Thanksgiving curled up with family on the couch watching the Macy's parade before indulging in a home-cooked feast, then perhaps you'll be participating in one of these other festive events.
It's a tough needle for brewers to thread.
Between the cotton candy and candy apples is a more adult treat the fair is offering for the first time since its local inception in 1957.
To celebrate the thinnest veil of the year between the physical and spiritual worlds, we've conjured local hospitality workers to share their personal spirit encounters while working in some of Charleston's allegedly haunted locales.
Traditional side dishes can be made healthier while still preserving the nostalgia of the holidays that many associate with their favorite foods.
We really need a pairing guide for local beers and popular Halloween candy. Need, I tell you.
Ghost Monkey is one of several Charleston craft brewers that have recently begun brewing hard seltzer, a red-hot, sparklingly transparent malt beverage category.
Ship's Wheel Hard Cider, founded in upstate New York, opens in North Charleston this weekend with tastings of a variety of old and new flavors.
Walking up the familiar steep staircase to the former Upper Deck Tavern brought back a lot of memories.
The new venue is called the Meeting Street Eats food truck village.
Nightlife for the locals has shifted to Upper King Street.
Wednesday morning before Hurricane Dorian sent rain, wind and debris up the South Carolina coast, many area restaurants and bars were planning to remain open through the storm.
During Hurricane Dorian, when most Charleston restaurants, bars and fast food joints had sealed up for the storm, area Waffle House locations were still operating. Yet, you wouldn't be able to tell by calling them.
Bars stayed open Wednesday as Hurricane Dorian approached Charleston.
As of Wednesday afternoon, many bars and restaurants that had initially promised to stay open during Hurricane Dorian via social media posts were boarded with sand bags in front of their doors.
Despite the evacuation order, many Charleston residents have opted to stick around as Dorian bears down on the Lowcountry.
Here are the Charleston area restaurants and bars that are definitely closed during Hurricane Dorian. Many others will remain open until further notice.
With Hurricane Dorian barreling up the coastline, many have opted to heed the evacuation order and head out of town. Those who stayed may be in the mood to drink.
If you don’t have $395 to plunk down on a meal in Ken Vedrinski’s kitchen or $525 for dinner on Mike Lata’s porch, no worries. Those Charleston Wine + Food Festival events are already at capac…
Here are seven of the nearly 30 breweries in the Charleston area with full food menus.
"Captain Jamie" got his nickname from his passion and profession as a fisherman and the captain of Redfish Mafia Charters in Charleston.
This fall was supposed to mark the return of the annual sampling spree, which went on hiatus in 2017 following a 36-year-long run.
It's National Bowling Day and "Austen Kroll releases a new beer" day.
For a select group of Charleston restaurants, hiring live musicians to perform nightly, on weekends or for at least one night a week is essential to their brand and customers' overall dining experience.
A long list of Charleston restaurants offer their own versions of the classic combination of orange juice and Champagne with brunch.
The bar and the beer have created a destination — for happy hours and live music and bocce ball tournaments — in a city where there are, increasingly, so many other places to go.
Maybe you're sipping on your first or second beer at a local brewery and, suddenly, you realize you're hungry.
It’s almost impossible to hide from tourists on the peninsula, but there are a few restaurants in the area that are absolutely worth patronizing.
There's a lot of novelty and nostalgia in one of America's most historic cities, and the restaurants and bars are no exception. Here's restaurants that will make you feel like a longtime local, even if you're a native.
Most sports are played on a field or a court, but some are played at Charleston's neighborhood bars.
The Charleston area has a slew of places to quench your cravings for traditional ice cream, as well as gelato, pie-filled ice cream sandwiches and Life Raft Treat's Not Fried Chicken ice cream.
Head out to Edisto Island to explore the serene nature and charming mom 'n' pop shops of the quaint island town that's only an hour away from the peninsula.
While the meat-free Impossible Whopper made its flashy debut at select Burger King locations in Florida, Alabama and Georgia in mid-May, a handful of Charleston restaurants months ago started …
A Charleston restaurant guide to frozen drinks and frozen rose.
During World War I, female volunteers with the Salvation Army went to France to provide fresh-baked goods and other items to American troops.
Here's what to do this weekend in Charleston.
From the breezy bars to the surf shops, here are some of the best ways to explore Folly Beach this summer.
A total of 23 Charleston restaurants, chosen based on their proximity to Spoleto venues, have created cocktails inspired by the festival's concerts, plays, characters in those plays as well as the event's history.
Memorial Day is almost here, which means that beach season has officially begun.
Whether the occasion is a birthday celebration or an office happy hour, several Charleston restaurants have space for large groups.
Enjoy a range of events in Charleston this weekend, from food festivals to movies in the park to local comedy and concerts.
Armed with a new name and bigger setting, this month’s Charleston Beer Fest has emerged as one of the Lowcountry's largest craft beer festivals.
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