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🌴 Paris and Italy in CHS, & something about exes
It's all about restaurants 🍜
Jimmy Farrell
July 05, 2024
Good morning, Charleston. I hope you enjoyed a nice, relaxing 4th, and didn’t need to dispense too much doggie Prozac.
Let’s jump back in!
In today’s newsletter:
1920s Paris comes to Charleston. Brasserie opens in Greystar headquarters building downtown 🇫🇷
IOP Chef Goes Back Downtown. And you can NEVER have enough Italian 🇮🇹
Ladies & Cocktails. Female-owned cocktail bar opens in West Ashley 🍸
Friday 91° / 78° ⛅ 💧7%
Saturday 90° / 78° ☀️ 💧21%
Sunday 89° / 78° 🌦️ 💧38%
Friday, July 5
All American Summer I 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM I The Charleston Place, Downtown (map) I The hotel’s Market Street Circle will be home to a vibrant and patriotic atmosphere that captures the spirit of Independence Day. Take a break from exploring the historic charm of Charleston and enjoy a Red, White and Blue Spritz and sweet treat from the Carriage House. Off Track will be providing ice cream for purchase from 2:00 - 5:00.
Garden Party I 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM I Charleston Crafts Gallery, Downtown (map) I Charleston Crafts Gallery is hosting “Garden Party!” a group show featuring 10 of the gallery’s artists.
Saturday, July 6
Wimbledon With A Wink I 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM I The Ryder Hotel, Downtown (map) I Join us at The Backyard for Wimbledon with A Wink, an exclusive pickleball court pop-up in partnership with Short Court and Volley that blends the timeless elegance of Wimbledon with the excitement of pickleball. Reserve your court time on Resy!
Doom Flamingo on the NÜTRL Beach Stage I 6:00 PM - Until I The Windjammer, Isle of Palms (map) I Doom Flamingo is a multi-headed synth rock sexy-tet with a Jekyll and Hyde element to the songwriting.
Sunday, July 7
Sunday at Celadon I Celadon, North Charleston (map) I 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM I This monthly market, Sunday at Celadon is an engaging local market that takes place on the first Sunday of every month from March-October 2024.
Cthulhu: the Musical! I Charleston Music Farm, Downtown (map) I 8:00 PM - Until ) Oregon’s only puppet musical horror troupe, Puppeteers For Fears will perform their gothic horror adaptation of the 1929 short story, "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft.
RESTAURANTS
Hemingway got inspiration here
Bar at The Select
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were fast friends in their 20s and 30s. Each frequently gave the other advice on the craft they chose, one which proved maddening, tortuous and gratifying for both.
For Christ sake write and don’t worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what. I write one page of masterpiece to ninety one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket. You feel you have to publish crap to make money to live and let live.
I’m speculating, but they may have exchanged such wisdom together at Le Select, a famed Paris brasserie they frequented in the 1920s.
Now we have a restaurant fashioned after that gathering place. Le Select opens today at 4:00 PM. It’s located in Greystar’s headquarters building downtown at 465 Meeting Street.
The space is beautifully designed, and no doubt will be heavily Instagrammed. The menu is described as new American and includes lobster and shrimp linguini, steak frites, braised short ribs, and roasted chicken with Southern succotash.
Coda del Pesce Chef To Open Italian Restaurant (Again) Downtown
Ken Vedrinksi will open Volpe’s late this year
Beachfront restaurants don’t usually enjoy the reputation Coda del Pesce does. Fast fare like pizza, hot dogs and ice cream typically grace seaside towns (and the occasional county fair-like stuff. Corn dog, anyone? 😋).
But James Beard award-nominated chef, Ken Vedrinksi, has been executing really well since he opened on Isle of Palms in May of 2013.
He’s also been cooking great Italian food for a long time. Some may remember the terrific Trattoria Luca which never reopened downtown after the pandemic.
Great news, though! He’s coming back downtown to a space at the corner of Rutledge Avenue and Doughty Street, on the edge of the Radcliffeborough neighborhood near MUSC.
He’ll be opening Volpe’s later this year in the space formerly operated by Laurel restaurant.
Female-Led Team Opens All My Exes In West Ashley
Bartenders prepare drinks at All My Exes in Avondale
Avondale is a really fun place to hang out. And it just got funner.
All My Exes is the name of a new cocktail bar that opened recently, and is owned and run by 2 ladies who entered the hospitality business at a young age.
Located in the former Oak Barrel Tavern space, the idea behind All My Exes was to provide a comfortable place for anyone, especially women, to hang out.
Steph Sievers and Jen Jackson formerly worked at Sullivan’s Fish Camp.
TRENDING
 | In America, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 114% over the past 2 decades. Women start approximately 849 new businesses every single day in the United States and this number is increasing. |
QUICK HITS
🍽️ Couple Behind Berkeleys Opens New Restaurant Downtown. The Archer opened in the former Gale space on Meeting Street.
🏞️ New waterfront park coming to Daniel Island. The State Ports Authority sold 9 parcels of land to Berkeley County to create this 115-acre park.
🏠 That little house emoji does no justice to a downtown home that sold for $9.7 million. Built in 2005, the home on Tradd Street is pretty new compared to its neighbors.
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