An eating guide published by Charleston Culinary Tours
A local's guide to eating in Charleston, SC
A guide to the city's tables, dishes and stories, written by the guides who walk these streets every day.
The feature · Itinerary
Biscuits at breakfast, oysters at sundown and the long, slow suppers that make this city famous. Our guides' hour-by-hour plan for eating the best of Charleston in a single weekend.
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Read the guide →01 — Explore
02 — Dishes
Once a Lowcountry fisherman's breakfast, now the city's signature plate.
Charleston's creamy crab soup, finished with roe and a splash of sherry.
Shrimp, sausage, corn and potatoes, boiled together and poured out to share.
Thin sesame cookies; “benne” is the West African word for sesame.
Field peas and rice, eaten on New Year's Day for luck.
03 — Neighborhoods
The city's liveliest dining strip, from late-night raw bars to chef-driven tasting counters. What to order and where to start.
Read the guide →Old Charleston at its most walkable: classic dining rooms, hidden courtyards and the Market's best bites, minus the tourist traps.
Read the guide →04 — Restaurants
Restaurant profile
How one plate came to define a kitchen, told by the chef who still makes it every night. Plus what to order alongside it.
A stop on the Charleston Culinary Tours downtown tour.
From the publisher
Charleston Culinary Tours has been walking guests through the city's kitchens for years. If this guide makes you hungry, these are the tours we run.
Historic streets, Lowcountry classics and the stories behind them.
See the tour →
The city's most exciting new kitchens, block by block.
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Cook-side with a local chef and the farmers who supply them.
See the tour →05 — Events
“The best meal in Charleston is usually the one someone local walks you to.”
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