We were staying down on St. Simons Island for a couple of days on business. As I headed out to an afternoon meeting late one day, I saw Hot Dog Alley. It was closed for the day, but I made a note to swing back by at some point over the next couple of days. […]
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED. After the culinary buzz he created about Flip Burger Boutique, everyone wondered what Richard Blaise’s next adventure would be. Once you’ve opened a gourmet burger joint, why not sell gourmet hot dogs? So HD1 Restaurant (Haute Doggery + Bar) opened in September of 2011. One evening as I was coming through […]
With the package that we booked at the Francis Marion Hotel, they gave us gift certificates that could be used at a number of restaurants around the hotel. For our last night in the city, we decided to use several of those and chose Fish. It is a locally sourced, eclectic French-Thai fusion restaurant. When […]
As we prepared to head to Charleston I researched all my food sources and without question every one of them said that we should have a meal at Husk. About three weeks before we left I started trying to make a reservation. I looked at Tuesday night. Then Wednesday night. Then Thursday night. And there […]
One of the other places on my South Carolina list, was the Hominy Grill. The recommendation there, from the Garden & Gun 50 Best Southern Foods, was for the high-rise biscuits: “High-Rise Biscuit, Hominy Grill – Charleston is a town full of biscuit pushers, but nobody has quite the mastery over this Southern staple as […]
When I found we were heading to Charleston for business, I looked at all of my food resources and identified the places that I wanted to dine: Rockaway Athletic Club (in Columbia, on the way up Hominy Grill Husk (where I was wait-listed for a reservation on three different days) and FIG. You have to […]
I had learned about Rockaway Athletic Club from Hamburger America, and reviewed George’s article before we left home. One of things that I remembered was the difficulty he had in finding the place. I followed the map to the address from the Burger GPS app, but all we saw where the GPS directed […]
Burgers, Barbecue and Everything Else 