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

by Vanessa | Mar 7, 2018 | Legacy

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...

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

by Vanessa | Feb 28, 2018 | Legacy

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...

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

by Vanessa | Feb 21, 2018 | Legacy

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...

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

by Vanessa | Feb 6, 2018 | Legacy

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...

Purlieu is the French-inspired restaurant we’ve been waiting for (Charleston City Paper)

by Vanessa | Jan 31, 2018 | Legacy

Although I may not live long enough to see humanity achieve Star Trek-like teleportation abilities, a visit to John Zucker’s Purlieu is almost like living in the future. Beam yourself into the chic, tiny bistro, situated at the corners of President and Fishburne...