Special Coverage
Meet slush
Meet steak-and-eggs
Meet canned wine
Meet blue ginger
Meet the Lowcountry’s lobster dishes
Meet orange caramel
Meet “paint-and-sip”
Meet ranch dressing
Meet pomegranates
Meet Girl Scout cookie drinks
Meet hakurei turnips
Meet turmeric
Meet chicharrones
Meet fennel pollen
Meet sweet potato tots
Meet wine blending
Meet coffee cocktails
Meet one-night-only meatballs
Meet nouveaux spring rolls
Meet Sicilian pizza
Meet chili con queso
Meet the food crawl
Meet smoked duck
Meet hoshigaki
Meet tres leches cake
Meet white truffles
Meet whipped cheese
Meet warm ice cream
Meet brown butter
Meet granola
Meet popcorn
Meet pineapple
Meet cacio e pepe
Meet chocolate babka
For the most part, the food at Tradd's in downtown Charleston is just mildly bad.
Melfi’s is the third restaurant that Brooks Reitz and Tim Mink have opened on the short strand of Upper King Street bounded by Congress and Sumter streets
It’s typically not a good sign when your mind wanders outside of a restaurant during a meal.
With football season underway and Election Day looming, here’s something upon which everyone can agree: Charleston has so much pizza.
★★★★☆ SNOB
★★☆☆☆ High Cotton
★★☆☆☆ Old Village Post House
Restaurant goers are a sophisticated bunch. The upshot of eating all those drunken noodles, pelmeni and empanadas is gaining a more nuanced understanding of the cultures that created them.
Malagon is making exceptional food, but its owners don’t want you or me to know it.
Charleston and New Orleans aren’t exactly the same, but when visitors who’ve been to The Big Easy first come to The Holy City, they’…
Our food critic visited three Charleston restaurants when they first opened in the past year. After giving them all two stars in the first round, she revisits them to see what's improved and what stays the same.
Royal terns may fly, but Charleston area diners tend to drive, so when John and Ben Williams opened a restaurant named for the seabi…
The massive Folly Beach restaurant, which measures three dining rooms and 6,500 square feet in all, has good intentions that spawn nothing but disappointment.
There are some places where it doesn’t take a compass to know which way the culture goes. People in Miami have to go north to reach …
Answering readers' food questions
Q: I consider the closing of Hominy Grill to be a complete disaster. Everyone is so focused on where will they go now to get good biscuits, but to me it was their sausage t…
Q: Is it possible to get the recipe for Mona’s Chili, which is served at Trotters Restaurant at the Town & Country Inn in West A…
Q: As a former Chicagoan who recently moved to the area, I was spoiled by all the Asian food options (Malaysian, Thai, Japanese, Kor…
Charleston's newest restaurants
Despite its name, customers for weeks couldn't buy beer at Baker and Brewer, the new joint project from Holy City Brewing and EVO Pizza.
Led by the team behind Saltwater Cowboys on Shem Creek, Hooked Seafood is up and running in downtown Charleston.
Vandy Vanderwarker is now practicing French techniques full-time as chef-owner of Maison, which recently opened in the former Pancito & Lefty’s on upper King Street.
Even if Ma Gloria’s Trinidad Restaurant is a roaring success, owner Roxann Melville says she has no plans to give up catering.
Interesting drinks around town
Exploring what locals eat throughout a day
Editor’s note: Per tradition, The Post and Courier Food section is celebrating Lowcountry Local First’s month-long Eat Local Challenge by featuring event participants in April’s Daily Digest columns. Challenge takers are asked to shift $10 or more of their weekly food budget to locally produ…
Editor’s note: Per tradition, The Post and Courier Food section is celebrating Lowcountry Local First’s month-long Eat Local Challenge by featuring event participants in April’s Daily Digest columns. Challenge takers are asked to shift $10 or more of their weekly food budget to locally produ…
Josh Capeder is a first-time Eat Local Challenge participant; he was interviewed before the initiative’s April 1 start.
More Food
Editor’s note: Per tradition, The Post and Courier Food section is celebrating Lowcountry Local First’s month-long Eat Local Challenge by feat…
For most of her life, Juliana Falk hated coffee.
"Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir" By Ruth Reichl