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Comment Archives: Locations: Restaurants: Cafés

Re: “Queen Street Grocery & Café”

I agree. This place blows now. Plenty of other locals spots around, don't waste your money.

Posted by The Polish Below Us Ate My Weiner on August 8, 2011 at 8:16 AM

Re: “Queen Street Grocery & Café”

This place really isn't the same anymore. I guess the old owners sold it and now it's just gone down hill with the new owners. My wife and I used to love going there for the crepes and sandwiches and relaxed atmosphere but the last few times we've been the new owners we're unfriendly, like they couldn't be bothered with us, and the food wasn't what it used to be. The prices had gone up considerably and the portions are much smaller. The sauce used for the my wife's Tenacious Turkey tasted like plain sour cream not the basil and honey dijon like it used to have and the amount of meats and cheeses in our food was far less than we were used to. Not to mention we paid $9 for a sandwich smaller than my palm and that was just for the sandwich. We were very disappointed, this place used to be a great hidden gem and now it's more like a cold tourist trap.

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Posted by Sansaki on August 7, 2011 at 9:49 AM

Re: “Black Bean Co.”

Amazing food and great outside seating area with a tranquil water fountain. It is tough finding a vegetarian restaurant in the Charleston area. Yet this one more than makes up for the lack of supply. Great tofu-stuffed wraps and delicious water infused with fruits or veggies (I have had strawberry and cucumber water there - it varies based on the chef's preference). Black Bean provides a much needed respite during my days downtown.

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Posted by Daniel Brinton on August 5, 2011 at 6:28 PM

Re: “Black Bean Co.”

Thought this place was really good when I first tried it, a little pricey but the portion was big. Tonight, I got a Black and Blue that was quite small and had only a couple of pieces of chicken. For $9?? My son had the Turkey Bacon which was bigger and not skimpy on the meat. I live in the neighborhood, but don't think I'll be back anytime soon. Dellz has way bigger portions for less $.

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Posted by Zip's Girl on August 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Re: “Parson Jack's Café”

Enjoyed the live music, food and beer. Dog friendly place with very friendly staff, we will certainly be back.

Posted by cgarr01 on July 7, 2011 at 5:31 PM

Re: “Black Bean Co.”

BB Co is too expensive and skimpy on ingredients.

I don't see any reason for James Islanders to go there instead of Barberito's - BB Co. doesn't even offer Avocado as an ingredient! They only have Guacamole, which Barberito's also offers.

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Posted by CharlestonNative on June 20, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Re: “Jam's Buffalo Café”

Best Wings in town!!

Posted by Psn66 on June 6, 2011 at 4:09 PM

Re: “Café Kronic”

This little cafe is about to be little no more. They are moving to where D&B's Cheeseburger's used to be behind Walgreens, a few doors down from Mondo's Delight and Terrie's Sports Bar. I love this place and excited for them to have a bigger place to serve more locals and tourist at. They have an amazing staff, who are all so nice and sweet. I hope this restaurant continues to do well and even better once in its new place. If you have not tried them out please go and do not waste anymore time. This cozy laid back atmosphere yet superb customer service along with amazing cuisine is what I think to be the best on James Island. Rooting for this Cafe all the way!! Love this place! Keep Going and make it happen!!

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Posted by ashstar7487 on May 25, 2011 at 1:24 AM

Re: “Laura Alberts Tasteful Options”

I found Laura Alberts on BeerAdvocate.com when I was looking for beer places to visit in the Charleston area. They had some great reviews so my wife and I stopped by yesterday. I was blown away with the selection. They didn't have a lot of beer, but the beers they had were really hard to come by! Bottles: Oskar Blues Old Double Bagger, Brooklyn Black Ops, and Terrapin's Georgia Theater Dubbel Draft: Ballast Point Sculpin, Allagash Confluence. We decided to stay for lunch. We had the Ahi Rare tuna over bok choy salad (so good) and split the Mortadella sandwich (the menu it explained that mortadella is a high end baloney of sorts made with pistachios) the sandwich came with grilled onions and a imperial stout mustard (beer food heaven!!) The price matched both the quality of the food and the portion size provided. They served the beers in proper glassware!

I saw an ad for a dinner they having tonight with Sweetwater, my wife and I are attending - I'll follow up with a dinner review.

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Posted by McSydney on May 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM

Re: “Bull Street Gourmet”

This place is great. Service can be slow on a Saturday or Sunday morning when the staff may have been out a little late the night before, but the food is outstanding!

I heard a rumor that a 2nd Downtown location was in the works. Any truth to this??

Posted by Snake on May 17, 2011 at 12:27 PM

Re: “Laura Alberts Tasteful Options”

Best lunch on DI, hands down. Reasonably priced considering the portion size (I took half of my huge $13 sandwich home!) They always have some rare beer on tap.

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Posted by ThomEvans on May 16, 2011 at 11:42 PM

Re: “Halo”

One of my readers suggested that we try Halo, a restaurant on Ashley Avenue across from MUSC. My readers haven’t steered me wrong yet, so we decided to give it a go.

Parking can be a little challenging for this restaurant, but the parking gods were smiling on us and we found a metered spot a few streets down from the restaurant.

On the way to ordering we ogled the glass covered “jewel box” of fresh made pastries. I could see one of these treats was going to be in my immediate future. My husband went up to check out the upstairs seating while I stood in line to order.

Although it wasn’t very busy (we got to lunch very late), the ordering process took awhile. There was one cashier who is very helpful, but because there were a lot of options, i.e. breads, side dishes, etc. each customer was asked and given all of these options, which took some time. There could probably more efficient way of doing this that I believe would help to drive traffic and sales.

After placing our order I headed up to the great outdoor table that my husband had found. Once you place your order you’re given a small plastic number that stands on your table. Your food is then delivered to your table. We waited for lunch and watched the world go by…….

If I had one complaint it would be that our lunch took a long time. For a not-so busy restaurant it took almost 20 minutes for our lunch to arrive. BUT… when it did arrive it was well worth the wait.

The menu consists of the baked goods that we first saw, 3 soups, 8 salads and 24 sandwiches. Their breakfast menu (7:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.), looks very interesting and we can’t wait to go back and try it.

During our wait we munched on the blueberry scone that we’d ordered. I have worked with a very large bakery café chain in the past and I thought I knew scones. This was the most un-scone-like scone that I’ve ever eaten. It was moist, light, and airy and the blueberries tasted like they were picked that morning. I’d go back to Halo just for that!

I ordered the Quesadilla Salad with Chicken. I thought the item sounded interesting. I really didn’t know where the chicken was going – on the salad or in the quesadilla, and found out that it comes in the quesadilla. A large, hot quesadilla was served atop a pile of greens and fresh accompaniments – diced tomato, carrots, banana peppers, and black bean and corn salsa. All were very fresh. Although the mixed cheese and pretzel roll advertised with the salad did not make the trip upstairs to our table, I would not have known they were missing until I reread the menu this morning. The salad was very good, but I didn’t care for eating out of a plastic clam shell with plastic silverware as if we had taken the item to go. Despite these few pet peeves, the salad was a winner.

When we go back for lunch I’ll be trying the sandwich selections. My husband’s “Brickhouse” sandwich came out cut in half and stacked at least 4-5” high. The side dish was the pasta salad of the day, which was as he put it, “Not their specialty.” He didn’t seem to mind, since the sandwich was terrific.

Served on a nice, fresh Ciabatta roll (they were out of multigrain bread that the sandwich is usually served on), thinly sliced roast beef was topped with a heaping serving of crumbled bleu cheese, roasted red peppers, red onion and pesto. All I kept hearing was “You ordered the wrong thing, this is great!”

Upon leaving one of the employees (a manager perhaps?), asked how everything was and said that he was pleased that we enjoyed everything and invited us back. And back for a visit we shall go.

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Posted by susieg on May 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM

Re: “Laura Alberts Tasteful Options”

I thought the food was overpriced for not being anything fancy. In addition, I asked the server to leave something off my plate, but she put it on there anyway and then had the nerve to get into an argument with me about whether or not I should still pay for it. She charged me for the same plate twice. It was an awful dining experience and I will not be returning. There are too many other places with better food and better service.

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Posted by DookieBalls on April 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM

Re: “Five Loaves Cafe”

Great value, charming and good, good food!

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Posted by Charlotte Hutson-Wrenn on April 7, 2011 at 8:37 AM

Re: “Bull Street Gourmet”

Great sandwiches, soups and salads!!!! Affordable wines and beers. I'm new to the neighborhood and i am going to frequent this place alot! Go chicken salad, go!

Posted by GoodFoodFinder on March 30, 2011 at 11:40 AM

Re: “Patat Spot Friet & Falafel”

I have eaten here several times since its opening and have been very impressed every time with both the food and the service. My non-vegeterian boyfriend even loves the falafel which says a lot. I went late night this weekend and maybe it was me or maybe the cashier misunderstood me but my order was messed up and even though it was 2am the owner, who was still there, made sure my order was correctly fixed and even brought it outside to me with a smile. Great food, great service and definitely a must eat place in Charleston!

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Posted by kels23 on March 29, 2011 at 7:24 PM

Re: “Bull Street Gourmet”

Bull Street Gourmet, eh? More like Bull Sh%* Gourmet. Sad to say this place has really declined in credibility. Recently ordered a bagel sandwich and was given a BLACK bagel. Completely burnt. The staff is so rude, also clearly they do not pay attention to what they are serving.
In addition, they advertise that they use H&H Bagels. H&H Bagels are New York bagels. When I ordered a bagel, I watched the clerk grab my bagel from a Kirkland / CostCo bag.
Not only do they serve you burnt food, but they lie about where the food comes from.
Get it together, B.S.G. Bring back what used to be good.

Posted by businessgurl on March 29, 2011 at 1:29 PM

Re: “Patat Spot Friet & Falafel”

Love this place. The food is fresh with a lot of flavors. The friets are delicious. I think the prices are very fair considering everything is homemade and fresh. I agree with Mrs16 100%.
Love the atmosphere too. Funky and fun! Can't wait to go back.

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Posted by Little Nell on March 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM

Re: “Patat Spot Friet & Falafel”

I just got schooled by Mrs.16! Ouch!

Posted by joshl725 on March 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM

Re: “Patat Spot Friet & Falafel”

Hello All,
Patat Spot here wanting to thank all of you for your input. The good and the bad!! We are very happy that most of the comments are good and we know it is near impossible to please everyone but we will continue to try. We would like to clarify that we do have a falafel jr. combo and our combo friet portion is a little smaller than the friet you would get for $3.95(that is a HUGE portion)BUT it also includes a drink and dipping sauce. A meal of Falafel Jr(with unlimited toppings from falafel toppings bar),friet, dipping sauce and drink for 8 bucks. Not bad at all. A plain sandwich from our neighbors(C&B or Bagelshop) will put you back 8 bucks without sides or drink. One thing to mention also is that none of our food is processed. We are all about fresh whole foods. Our falafel is unique because we use no fillers at all in them. No bread crumbs, no matza meal, no gluten just yummy beans, fresh herbs and spices. Our falafel is different than the run of the mill falafel you will find at the few places that do acutally carry falafel. We try to not compare ourselves with anyone else because we are so different. We hope you will try us out.
Once again we would like to thank all of you who have tried our food and took the time to comment here. We are happy that most comments are written by people who have tried us out and not by "employee's/ownership/friends of both boosting star ratings with good reviews." Like we said, we can't please everyone but we are having a blast trying. Check us out and know we are open late night(3am) Fri and Sat only. Thank you and Eet Smakelyk(Dutch for Bon Appetite),
Patat Spot Friet & Falafel
41 B George St-Next door to Jack's :o)

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Posted by Patat Spot on March 23, 2011 at 9:58 PM
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