Best of Charleston 2015

April 1, 2015

Hello my dear readers. The time has come; today is the day that Charleston City Paper released the results for this year’s Best of Charleston. Although I’m very saddened to not have won Best Local Interest Blog, I am extremely grateful to all of you who took the time to vote for me! We’ll get ’em next year.

Every year, I get sad because some of my favorite restaurants were (like me) overlooked as BOC winners, so I create a list of my own Charleston favorites. Here are The Queen’s choices for Best of Charleston 2015:

Best New Restaurant
R Kitchen

Best Sandwiches
Persimmon Cafe

Best Biscuits & Gravy
Lost Dog Cafe

Best Brunch
The Granary

Best BBQ
Swig & Swine

Most Addicting Mac & Cheese
Crave

Best Diner
Rarebit

Best French Food
Brasserie Gigi

Best Trivia Night
Kickin’ Chicken

Best Southern Food
Angel Oak Restaurant

Best Plate of Cornbread
Edmund’s Oast

Most Decadent Plate of Carrot Cake
City Lights Coffee

My New Favorite Taco Spot
Zia Taqueria

Most Addicting Hummus
Dell’z Uptown

Most Deliciously Innovative Take on Baked Beans
The BBQ baked peanuts from Artisan Meat Share

Tastiest Oysters
Leon’s

Best New Sean Brock Restaurant
Minero

Best Mt. Pleasant Restaurant
Stack’s Evening Eats

Yummiest Breads
Browns Court Bakery

Best Lunch Downtown
Twenty Six Divine

Best Peruvian Chicken
Pollo Loko

Coolest Ambience
Park Cafe

Saddest Restaurant Closing
Georgean’s Caribbean Soul

What are your picks for this year’s Best of Charleston?

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Best of Charleston 2013

March 6, 2013

So, the Charleston City Paper’s annual “Best of Charleston” is out today! I’m so excited! Obviously the only section I care about is the Best Charleston Food section (especially since I wasn’t voted “Best Local Blog” … way to drop the ball, guys). In honor of this, I’m going to do my own “Best of Charleston: Eating and Drinking Out.” Here it is!