The Charleston table — what to order and where the locals point.
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Mike Lata's Food Is Good — twenty years on, still the restaurant that defines Charleston cooking.
Rodney Scott's BBQ
Whole-hog barbecue over wood, James Beard award and all. Get the pulled pork sandwich and the mac.
Chez Nous
Six tables, a handwritten menu of four dishes that changes daily, hidden on Payne Court. Cash and charm.
Husk
In a Queen Street mansion, cooking only ingredients from the South. The cheeseburger at the bar is famous.
The Ordinary
An oyster hall in a 1927 bank building with a raw bar under the vault ceiling.