South Carolina’s food culture runs deep and wide, from the Gullah-inspired cooking of the Lowcountry to the smoke-heavy barbecue traditions of the Midlands and the creative kitchens tucked into Upstate towns that most visitors overlook.
August brings the kind of heat that makes you want to eat somewhere casual and honest, which is exactly what these ten restaurants deliver.
Some sit inside neighborhoods where gentrification hasn’t arrived yet, which means the food is still priced for the people who built those communities…