Breakwater Restaurant & Bar Opens in Greenville’s West End

Beaufort’s Breakwater Restaurant & Bar opens its second location today just 237 miles away at 802 S. Main St. in Greenville’s West End. The restaurant will have an upscale casual atmosphere and specialize in New South cuisine with an emphasis on tapas – appetizer-sized dishes designed for sharing. Beth Shaw and Gary and Donna Lang [...]

CRESCENT Food: Restaurant Week South Carolina is January 12 – 22, 2012

For eleven nights in January, food lovers in South Carolina can dine in style at some of the state’s best restaurants for a fraction of the cost of a regular meal.  Restaurant Week South Carolina will be held January 12 – 22, 2012. This is the third year Restaurant Week South Carolina has offered consumers [...]

YOUR TURN: “Top 10 Charleston Restaurants” by Joseph Morris

Within the past few decades, the restaurant scene in Charleston has become one of the most talked-about in the nation. Top chefs from all over the nation are flocking to this city filled with historic traditions to create a new spin on Southern cuisine fused with international flavors. Delight your taste buds with fresh seafood, [...]

CRESCENT Things: James Beard Award Winner Ted Lee (Part 4)

WHY CAN’T GREENVILLE GET CHARLESTON OYSTERS? We just keep ‘em all.  I keep thinking, Matt and I are experimenting with FedEx because   We’ll do oyster roasts up here and you can’t find clusters, they don’t sell them out at the Hunts Point Fish Market.  We’ve done experiments where the guy who does our packing for [...]

CRESCENT Things: James Beard Award Winner Ted Lee (Part 3)

SHARING CULTURE You learn a lot by serving people your food and seeing responses.  I served Huguenot Torte which is like a classic Charleston dessert.  Really easy like egg whites, apples and sugar.  Bake it and I served this food editor who was the food editor for the New York Times Magazine. I have never [...]

CRESCENT Things: James Beard Award Winner Ted Lee Talks About SC’s Invasion of NYC (Part 2)

EDITORIAL UPDATE: On the Monday, October 10, 2011 edition of his MSNBC program “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough asked, “What is it about the South? You can’t find a musical form in America, American pop culture, that did not start in the Deep South. Some of the greatest literature, some of, well, THE greatest cooking… [...]

CRESCENT Things: James Beard Award Winner Ted Lee Talks About SC’s Invasion of NYC (Part1)

CRESCENT. It’s a magazine about South Carolina, so why would we leave the Palmetto State to go to New York to meet with a guy from Charleston at a restaurant owned by another guy from Charleston so we could eat a South Carolina breakfast? Because South Carolina is the new black. We’re taking over, and [...]