Charleston Eats: Best Restaurants, Hidden Gems & More

Forthcoming Indian restaurant Rivayat is set to open soon at 210 Rutledge Avenue in downtown Charleston. The establishment, owned by Sujith Varghese, also the proprietor of Mount Pleasant’s Spice Palette, will focus on seafood, featuring regional dishes from southern India. For the menu, Varghese drew inspiration from his hometown of Kerala. “Rivayat is a love [ ]

Raleigh is, in many respects, a modest city. Despite its growing population and ability to rival the likes of Nashville as a tourist draw (yes, seriously), North Carolina’s capital often doesn’t get its due. It isn’t as offbeat as neighboring Durham or as picturesque as Asheville, and maybe it’s a little buttoned up. Yet flash [ ]

Charleston celebrates, and almost worships, the bounty of its surroundings: from freshly-caught blue crabs to grains milled on nearby Edisto Island. The city by the sea sits below the Sandhills, the original coastline of the ancient seas across the Carolinas, and is therefore often referred to as the Lowcountry. So when you hear those words, [ ]