that it went out with a bang. Our weekend in Charleston
was amazing, so much good food, beautiful places, and
tasty drinks. We stayed at the Elliot House Inn, which is a cute
little hotel that ended up being right next to Husk-which
is where we went for my birthday dinner!
We used the hotel bikes to see a lot of the city very quickly,
and with that southern humidity it was nice to have a little
bit of a breeze on you.
We had our first drinks at the Gin Joint,
we caught their happy hour and, it was the
perfect start to vacation.
We had our first meal at the Ordinary,
and we had that magical moment
when the food is just mind-blowing.
No exaggeration. Seriously.
Eat-this-with-your-eyes-closed-savor-
every-bite kind of good.
The two standouts were the fried oysters
with beef tartare.
and the swordfish schnitzel with zucchini
and chanterelles. But the buttery-ness
oh the buttery-ness!!! This made me want
to cry it was so good.
The next day we rode our bikes down to the battery
with a Big Dipper sandwich from Groucho's
then made our way to my most favorite place in
the whole city: The Pineapple Fountain.
I got right in.
What better place to be on your birthday than
one of your most favorite places of all time?
After our afternoon ride we dressed for dinner
and headed over to Bin 152 for some delicious
champagne and 2 cheeses. Next was the big birthday
feast at Husk. The food was so delicious but so
rich,I felt like I was going to explode by the end of the meal!
For an appetizer the husband ordered hand cut pasta
with house pancetta, chanterelles, english peas, poached
egg, buttered with Husk manchego
I ordered the wood fired TN veal marrow bones with
pickled Edisto fig "jam" and chive biscuits.
*Sidenote: 3 pieces of marrow is a lot!
This was our wine, a lovely Cru Beaujolais.
It was exactly what I wanted.
For entrees the husband ordered Cornmeal crusted
NC catfish with fried cabbage "chow chow", lady peas,
peppers, onions, and tomato gravy
I ordered the Tanglewood Farms pheasant with chanterelles
(I really love chanterelles), woodfired peach and eggplant, and
pickled green tomato-peach relish
We also got a "side" of cornbread with Benton's
bacon in it. So good, but so rich. We barely put a
dent in this.
And finally a candle in the lemon curd/blackberry trifle
Easily, one of the best birthday's I've ever had.
The next 2 days we continued to ride our bikes all
over town. We brunched at the Grocery, meandered
through the alleyways and former rum-running areas
of the city. Ate banana pudding, had more drinks at
Husk's bar, lunched at the Hominy Grill on our last
day and still managed to eat a 1/2 dozen oysters and a
1/2 pound of lowcountry shrimp about an hour before we
left for the airport.
It was great to be down there again, and to create a whole
new set of memories with the husband. We can't wait to
go back :)
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