Eating my way though Charleston

I didn't know that Charleston was a big foodie town until I was doing some serious research about what we should do while we were there and most people recommended that I just eat. As I spent more time looking into what I was doing and what would be good I got pretty excited about trying a few new things. I also admit that I adhered to the idea what I was on vacation and I would try just about anything. 

One of my favorite dinners was the Shrimp and Grits from the Hominy Grill. I found the recommendation for this entree and it was a good find for them. I have tried this a few different times both at home and elsewhere and I was so unimpressed that I was not sure this was going to be good. But it was incredible, I ate every single thing that came on my plate. The only thing that I didn't have much of was the boiled peanuts that came out before dinner. I really don't like boiled peanuts, these were some of the best that I have ever had but I only had one. My family has a joke about eating boiled peanuts so we had a fun laugh about the peanuts.

Shrimp and Grits, hominy grill

How excited do they look about the boiled peanuts?!?

Just about every restaurant in Charleston had She-crab soup on the menu. After I heard that it was crab bisque with crab eggs for flavor I was pretty skeptical about it. But during our last lunch we decided to give it a go and have a cup. It was wonderful, I really enjoyed it. I found it to be creamy and full of crab and to be honest if I didn't think about the crab eggs I could have eaten it all the time. I really enjoyed this, my mom on the other hand couldn't get over the eggs so she just had a bite.

The famous She-Crab Soup

At another restaurant it was pretty fun to have hush puppies brought out before the meal. I included this on this post because it was wonderful to have something good after the boiled peanuts. I don't have much to say about these but I will admit that they were just ordinary.

Hushpuppies: a much better appetizer

One of the other things that I ate lots of was dessert, if there was cake I had it. I had cake all over the city and if we walked past a bakery then I had cookies or a cupcake. The red velvet cake was at a steak house, I think I was pretty under whelmed that entire meal. The cake was relatively dry and my steak had lots of fatty parts. But it was fun to sit around and hang with my parents. 

This mostly eaten cookie was from Bakehouse Charleston. It was a really good chocolate chip cookie. It was a very large cookie, I ate the whole thing but I totally could have shared it with my dad. My mom had a double chocolate cookie, that was really good too. I also loved my diet coke but that is just the best part of any day.

First bakeshop we hit up... good cookies

The best dessert that I had was the strawberry cupcake from Sugar. I wish I could have shown you a picture but this fat girl ate it before I could think of taking one. It was amazing, the icing was butter cream with strawberry puree mixed it... so stinking yummy.

For the most part I loved everything that I ate and there are still a million more restaurants that I am still looking forward to trying on my next visit. What is the best thing that you have ever eaten?