Warehouse continues to serve A+ bar eats under chef Jason Daly (Charleston City Paper)

by Vanessa | Jan 17, 2018 | Legacy

Last August, shortly after appearing on Top Chef Charleston, Warehouse’s executive chef Emily Hahn announced that she would be leaving the popular bar to pursue a new project. Soon thereafter, Chef Jason Daly took over her post. Relocating from a remote island...

Basic Kitchen serves up pleasing, mindful eats (Charleston City Paper)

by Vanessa | Jan 3, 2018 | Legacy

In the common vernacular, to call anyone “basic” is pretty much an insult, indicating that one is an Uggs-wearing, pumpkin spice latte-loving simpleton content to try to keep up with the Kardashians. Although there’s house kombucha ($5), a smattering...

At NICO Oysters + Seafood, stick to the the fruits de mer (Charleston City Paper)

by Vanessa | Dec 20, 2017 | Legacy

Last January, roughly six months after leaving his near decade-long post at Fish, Chef Nico Romo announced he would be launching his own venture in the spring. Spring turned to summer and the “Coming soon!” sign continued to tease — if not torment — anyone...

Wood & Grain is pizza heavy, but it’s the seafood that shines (Charleston City Paper)

by Vanessa | Dec 13, 2017 | Legacy

Whoever first said ‘location, location, location’ probably didn’t have Wood & Grain in mind. Formerly the site of a nail spa in a strip mall off Shelmore, the restaurant has been strikingly transformed into a chic, sophisticated space. Set two...

What Ink N Ivy lacks in charming decor, it makes up for in solid bar fare (Charleston City Paper)

by Vanessa | Nov 29, 2017 | Legacy

Having heard such foreboding utterances as “it’s like Ed Hardy threw up in there,” I must say I was quite relieved by my own first venture into Ink N Ivy. Where I had feared a schizophrenic, technicolor tattoo hallucination, the open space is...