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Where To Get The Most Mouthwatering Burgers In Charleston

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There’s nothing quite like sinking your teeth into a giant, juicy burger. Whether you prefer one slathered with barbecue sauce topped with onion rings or a veggie burger complete with a fresh tomato and lettuce, there’s a burger out there that’s perfect for you. With Charleston’s twist of southern charm, this city is home to some of the most unique and best burgers. . . EVER!

1.Sesame Burgers & Beer

With locations in Mount Pleasant, West Ashley and North Charleston, some of the best burgers in town are right around the corner. With an easy build-your-own-burger menu complete with dozens of sides, Sesame Burgers broad menu allows you to sculpt the perfect meal. If you’re feeling daring, try the Diablo topped with a sweet chili glaze, tequila pickled pineapple, hot sauce, and ghost pepper jack cheese.

2.Poe’s Tavern

What better way to recover from a lazy day out in the sun on Sullivan’s Island than at Poe’s Tavern. You can always count on this quaint restaurant with a menu and decor devoted to the famous author Edgar Allan Poe to be thriving with tourists and locals. Try Poe’s Famous Veggie Burger with black beans, red peppers, and onions.

3.Little Jack’s Tavern

Winner of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash in 2017, this old school inspired joint has some top-notch burgers. Expand your palate with Little Jack’s shrimp burger paired with one of their signature cocktails and well-rounded wine list.

4.Rutledge Cab Co.

Home to Charleston’s only indoor charcoal grill, Rutledge Cab Co. has loads to offer including all-day breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and late night. Complete with a rustic atmosphere since being transformed from a former convenience store/gas station, you don’t want to miss dining here. Their extensive list of burgers including the house favorite French Onion Burger and Red-EYe Burger are simply to die for.

5.39 Rue de Jean

This classic French restaurant offers the best Brasserie cuisine in Charleston. Nestled into one of the side streets off of a bustling King Street, take in the authentic French cafe remodeled from a brick warehouse. Try the Brasserie Burger, a 10-ounce beef burger served with their famous pommes frites.

6.Bohemian Bull

Inspired by the culture and lifestyle of Charleston, this upscale bar is the best place to grab a burger and a craft beer. Bohemian Bull is a large advocator for local and fresh products, therefore their hand-spanked burgers are ground in-house with a blend of brisket and chuck served on locally made buns. Join them on Wednesday nights for the $3 build your own burger.

7.Charleston Beer Works

Come watch the big game while enjoying some great food at Beer Works on King street. With 40 beers on tap and widescreen televisions covering the two-story sports bar, this is the perfect all American restaurant. Try their southern inspired burger the Palmetto, topped with green tomato and bacon tapenade, pimento cheese, and arugula or the Mac Daddy, a burger piled high with creamy mac n cheese.

8.Harold’s Cabin

First opened as a snowball shop under Harold Jacobs, these reimagined corner store and cafe is complete with its own rooftop garden. With its fresh veggie-based menu, Harold’s Cabin is also known for its tasty bison burger smothered in smoky steak sauce. Save room for dessert with its daily cakes and pies.

9.Fiery Rons Home Team BBQ

If there’s one thing the south is known for it’s their barbecue. Home Team BBQ incorporates its smoky, savory barbecue into almost every item on their menu from barbecue nachos to a barbecue caesar salad. Get any kind combination of pulled pork, brisket, smoked turkey and more at this trendy, renovated mid-1900’s gas station.

10.Big Billys Burger Joint

Just from the name, you know this place has amazing burgers. They freshly grind a special blend of beef in their kitchen daily including turkey, bison, wild boar, and venison. Their list of out of this world milkshakes including the Thin Mint Mania and Banana Splat are a must have to wash down your burger. Join them for half price burger night every Thursday from 4 PM – 9 PM.

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By choosing from 9 simple categories it makes choosing a restaurant simple and EASY. Other apps leave you searching through reviews trying to find the best spots while Taste gives you the top picks in your area. What’s even cooler is that you get to have an opinion too! If you have a favorite place in one of the categories, it gets 100 points in the ranking. Also, if you love one category and are visiting it a lot, the weight of your ranking increases in points.

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Roll With Your Homies Over To These Top Sushi Spots

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Charleston is one of the best restaurant cities in ~~the South~~ the entire country. We’re pretty well known for our seafood, our bbq, and our comfort food. But there’s ONE type of food that’s on the underrated side. Sushi.

People go crazy for sushi. Rolls can be so pretty that sometimes it’s hard not to just stare. Sushi can be creamy, crunchy, hot, cold, spicy, sweet, pretty much whatever you’re in the mood for. Sushi rolls are (usually) healthy, inexpensive, perfect for sharing, and just down-right delicious, which makes it hard to not want it ALL. THE. TIME.

Locals Bar
Hence their name, Local’s Bar is a “local” favorite. Killer specials set them apart—from ½ off sushi to half off bottles of wine. Live music & an outdoor patio will make you pull off the road to check out this hoppin’ Mt. Pleasant sushi bar.

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Wasabi of Mt Pleasant
A fun place for sushi AND a good deal? Yep, it’s possible. Wasabi’s large selection of hand-crafted and unique martinis are a fan favorite. Oh, and you can’t forget about their ridiculously cheap happy hour.

O-Ku
Looking for a nice place for dinner, O-Ku is hands down one of the best sushi places downtown. They are famous for their potato roll, rock shrimp salad, salmon lemon roll and miso soup. They have a large selection of fairly priced sake and an outstanding happy hour. Don’t miss this if you’re a sushi lover!

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Zen Asian Fusion
Here’s what to expect at Zen Asian Fusion: sushi towers, innovative cocktails, and bubble tea. YUM. Zen also offers flaming bowls and neat animals made from carrots and scallop shells. A great and affordable place to take the entire family.

Shiki
This little hidden gem is tucked away off of East Bay Street with surprisingly easy parking. If you’re in a hurry, this is the place to be because it’s super quick and super delicious. Don’t overlook the sashimi, nigiri, and fish!

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Osaka Asian Bistro
Right off the West Ashley bridge on James Island is an authentic sushi place with a great atmosphere. Freshness and consistency are what Osaka is most well known for. It’s a super convenient stop on your way to or from Folly Beach.

Bushido Japanese Restaurant
Want a casual sushi night out? Bushido is a great place for just that. The food is great, the service is quick and friendly – what else could you ask for? Head to Magwood Drive for this tasty Asian cuisine.

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Tasty Thai & Sushi
A King Street favorite! Located near the college and Marion square, it is convenient and obviously “tasty.” They offer a large variety of food with not only great sushi but, great Pad Thai as well!

Spring Roll Asian
Spring Roll is a fast and yummy spot to get great sushi whether you’re eating in or ordering out. They are conveniently located, quick, and cheap! What’s not to love about that?

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Revelry Brewing
Craft beer AND sushi, say what?! Revelry has an amazing atmosphere with an open rooftop. A great place to enjoy some beer and the best part about it is that the Tobo Sushi food truck is out front seven days a week.

To find more top 10 lists visit the app, Taste. Foodies love it and locals need it. Instead of picking places you might not like, Taste, makes it simple to find the best places around town!

Don’t waste time trying to find a great restaurant, let your app help you out click here to download the FREE app for iOS devices.

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Where To Find Some Ridiculously Drool-Worthy Desserts In Charleston

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Dessert. It makes us all warm and fuzzy inside just thinking about our favorite meal ever. Oh, you don’t consider dessert a meal? Well, you’re wrong, because anything that makes us as happy as dessert does deserves to be labeled a meal.

A few words that come to mind when we think about dessert: warm, gooey, sugary, flakey, decadent, luscious, rich, crispy….we could go on and on but we’re already drooling all over our keyboards.

So it’s a good thing Charleston has no shortage of great dessert joints, but how many would you call essential? What are the sweets you need to know to see how we do dessert in this town?

1. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

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If you’re ever strolling along upper King at any given time of day and come across a line of folks waiting, it’s most likely for Jeni’s. This Ohio-based scoop shop builds every recipe from the ground up with luscious, grass-grazed Ohio milk. Their flavors are constantly changing, it just depends on what kind of mood the staff is in. Jeni Britton Bauer’s ice creams have been praised by Time (“America’s best”), Cooking Light (“deadly delicious”), and Saveur(“revolutionary”), while Food & Wine stated, “No one makes ice cream like Jeni Britton Bauer.”

2. Kaminksy’s

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Get to Kaminsky’s early in the night, or else you’ll find yourself among a long line of dessert-craving patrons. The good part, though, is the line moves fast, the desserts come out quick, and you can even just get something to-go if you’re not in the mood to sit. On the menu, you can find a rotating selection of delectable desserts made in-house daily, heaping milkshakes, specialty coffees and cold beverage creations.

3. Carmella’s

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Nestled on the corner of East Bay and Cumberland Rd., Carmella’s is a perfect mash-up of Italian sweets and Charleston charm. They are best known for their gourmet pastries, gourmet gelato, and dessert cocktails. Stop by for a late-night dessert, you WILL NOT be sorry you did.

4. ICE BING Cafe

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Recently opened ICE BING Cafe is making quite a name for itself on Spring Street. The cafe prides itself on not serving MSG or GMO products. Their menu includes unique offerings such as bubble tea, fruit-puree enhanced matcha iced teas and bings — homemade syrup and frozen condensed milk.

5. Park Circle Creamery

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Park Circle Creamery is without a doubt a neighborhood favorite in North Charleston. The friendly ice cream shop offers 16 hand-crafted flavors, including maple bacon!

6. Ye Old Fashioned Ice Cream & Sandwich Cafe

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Sure, Ye Old Fashioned serves up some delicious sandwiches and burgers at a great price, but it’s the ice cream that keeps customers coming back. Sometimes, just a couple scoops of vanilla or chocolate ice cream in a cone dusted with sprinkles is all you need. But sometimes, an outrageous ice cream sundae big enough to feed the whole family will suffice too.

7. Sugar Bakeshop

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According to one reviewer on Yelp, Sugar Bakeshop is “dangerously delicious.” This little artisanal cupcake shop located on Spring Street has a lot more to offer other than cupcakes, like tarts, cookies, cakes, and pies. They also serve up “specialty items” which include banana pudding, brownies, pralines, sandies, blueberry coffeecake, and homemade pop-tarts (pictured above).

8. Glazed Gourmet Doughnuts

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It’s true, there are few things better in life than biting into a warm, fluffy, airy donut. Glazed truly focuses on the “gourmet” aspect of the donut. All the ingredients they use are completely natural with no preservatives, random additives food coloring and artificial flavoring. Their glaze, fillings, and pastries are homemade (or grown in our herb garden). The dough is made in-house. None of that frozen or pre-made dough nonsense!

9. King Street Cookies

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Arguably the best cookies in Charleston. King Street Cookies has one of the best locations being walking distance from the College, right beside Marion square, and on King St! They have two giant chairs out front which are popular for enjoying cookies and milk (or taking pictures!) They serve anywhere from chocolate chip cookies to MexiCoCo spice cookies. They are always changing their flavors and offer milk with your cookies too! Another great option they provide is gluten-free cookies!

10. WildFlour Pastry

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It would be a sin to go to Wildflour Pastry and not try one of their sticky buns. But you would be forgiven if you tried any of their other sweets- because they are all pretty drool-worthy. Wildflour also creates some pretty amazing wedding cakes, so it’s no surprise that Head chef Lauren Mitterer has earned a reputation for being one of the city’s top pastry chefs.

This listicle was provided by Taste, the app that’s changing the game for foodies all over. Rather than spending hours researching where to eat or pestering your friends who have lived here longer than you, Taste makes it super easy to pick a spot.

It isn’t your typical food app because it actually allows you to choose favorites based on nine categories including coffee, burgers, drinks, pizza, sushi, and more. You know you’re getting a solid opinion because Taste actually holds their reviewers accountable. You can only pick one favorite for each category, once you have picked, that favorite gets 100 points towards its ranking. The more you visit a certain category, the more your opinion is worth.

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