DELICOUS DINING
It’s hard to choose when there are so many options.
You can go Southern in name and cuisine at Blossom (www.blossomcharleston.com) and Magnolias (www. magnoliascharleston.com), both on East Bay Street – or at Rutledge Avenue’s Hominy (www.hominygrill.com), with its James Beard Award-winning chef; go for seafood at one of two King Street favourites: Beard Award-nominated The Ordinary (www.eattheordinary.com) or atmospheric The Darling Oyster Bar (www.thedarling.com); test out the AAA Four Diamond credentials of Circa 1886 on the grounds of the Wentworth Mansion (www.circa1886.com); enjoy regional produce, including seafood, in Cannon Street’s The Grocery (www. thegrocerycharleston.com) or drop by King Street’s newish
Parcel 32, set in a revitalised 1837 townhouse (www.parcel32.com). However, two of my favourites are farther afield –
Purlieu (www.purlieucharleston.com), a friendly neighbourhood bistro, is on Fishburne Street north of the bridge leading to the James River Road plantations; and then there’s
Middleton Place Restaurant, which is tucked into a corner of its namesake plantation (www. middletonplace.org/explore/restaurant).