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Charleston Travel Guide

Charleston Travel Guide

Charleston Travel Guide


F&W’s guide to Charleston features spectacular restaurants from expert chefs like Sean Brock, incredible soul food and obsession-worthy pecan sticky buns.


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Charleston Restaurants

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    • Husk

  • Splurge

    • Cypress
    • Fig
    • McCrady’s

  • Classic

    • Bertha’s Kitchen
    • Bowens Island
    • Jestine’s Kitchen

  • Best Value

    • Alluette’s Café
    • The Glass Onion

  • Coffee & Sweets

    • Hope & Union
    • Sugar Bakeshop
    • Wildflour Pastry

  • Bars

    • Enoteca
    • The Gin Joint
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Charleston Travel Guide: Wentworth Mansion

Wentworth Mansion

This mansion's 21 rooms have modern amenities, plus antique details such as hand-carved marble fireplaces, intricate woodwork and Tiffany stained glass windows. Chef Marc Collins oversees breakfast, which might include sautéed shrimp and organic Carolina grits or rice-flour pancakes with maple syrup and homemade rabbit sausage. wentworthmansion.com.

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Charleston Restaurants: Husk

Editor’s Pick

  Located in a beautifully restored circa-1893 Queen Anne, Husk showcases Southern food and ingredients. Every single item on the menu comes from below the Mason-Dixon Line, from the salt to the seafood.
Husk’s Delicious Research
Best Fried Chicken in the U.S.

Husk’s Delicious Research

Forget the focus on super-secret batter recipes. Star chef Sean Brock is hard at work trying to answer the question, “Just how many fats can chicken be fried in?” Brock’s chicken, which is available by reservation only and requires 48 hours notice, is fried in butter, chicken fat, bacon fat and country ham fat.

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Poogan’s Porch
Haunted Restaurants

Poogan’s Porch

The Charleston police receive so many calls about a distressed woman dressed in black trapped inside this upscale Southern restaurant that authorities disregard new reports. The woman is believed to be the ghost of Zoe St. Armand, who owned the house in the early 1900s.

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Recipes from Charleston Chefs

  • Spring Panzanella with Asparagus

    Recipes for panzanella (a Florentine bread salad popular in the summer) typically call for tomatoes, but in the spring, Mike Lata prefers using seasonal ingredients like asparagus and radishes.

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    Spring Panzanella with Asparagus
  • Cornmeal-Almond Cake with Strawberries and Mascarpone

    This buttery cornmeal cake contains more than a half-pound of toasted almonds, giving it an excellent, nutty flavor.

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    Cornmeal-Almond Cake with Strawberries and Mascarpone
  • Carolina Pulled Pork

    Traditional Carolina barbecue begins with a whole hog smoked over coals; here, Sean Brock cooks pork shoulder for 12 hours in a 275° oven before smoking it for about 1 hour in a backyard grill.

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    Carolina Pulled Pork
  • Garlic-and-Herb-Crusted Leg of Lamb

    This leg of lamb is perfectly juicy in the center, with a fantastic crust.

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    Garlic-and-Herb-Crusted Leg of Lamb
  • The Charleston Bog

    Mixologist Ralph Rosenberg wanted to create a bourbon drink that was appealing to non-bourbon drinkers. The result is this lightly sweet pink drink.

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