One Broad Street lives up to its architecture (Charleston City Paper) Mar14

One Broad Street liv...

The first thing you need to know about One Broad Street is that it occupies a truly gorgeous former bank building at the T-bone of East Bay and Broad streets. It’s a remarkable restoration, two years in the making, and worth a stop just to gawk at the ornate trim. The second thing you...

Félix Chef Elizabeth Schultenover nails Parisian small plates (Charleston City Paper) Mar07

Félix Chef Elizabeth...

Front and center on their swanky website — well, right below the martini-quaffing frog GIF — Félix Cocktails et Cuisine declares its intent to serve “creative cocktails and small plates, all with the flare [sic] of today’s Paris.” Hardly a candle in the wind, Félix has...

Making culinary dreams come true in Charleston sometimes means being an itinerant chef (Charleston City Paper) Feb28

Making culinary drea...

In 2007, Los Angeles Chef Ludo Lefebvre introduced Ludo Bites, a series of temporary eateries that opened randomly across the city, lasted a few days or weeks, and then disappeared. Over the next decade, this trend spread, and a new term — as well as a culinary movement — was born. Pop-up...

With its unorthodox flavors, Tu can’t be pinned down (Charleston City Paper) Feb21

With its unorthodox ...

Let’s get real: Tu is cooler than me, and odds are it’s got one up on you. That’s okay though. As we all know, being seen with someone a little out of your league just improves your own mystique. And Tu is all that. Unabashedly hip, chic, and confounding, the menu reads...

Black Wood Smokehouse brings the smoke and the fire (Charleston City Paper) Feb06

Black Wood Smokehous...

Here is the equation. I’ll let you do the math. Strip mall + Barbecue Joint + West Ashley + Location that has changed hands more times than the Potato Head family = Cue Jaws theme song, right? But nope. It turns out this is some of that new math — the kind that doesn’t make any...