*** Sunday, January 16, 2011 ***
We arrived in Charleston, SC on Saturday and got settled into our hotel and then headed to King Street to meet a friend of Eric’s for dinner. We met up at Basil Thai and had some amazing Thai food. Since we’ve moved to Blacksburg we don’t have a lot of the ethnic type restaurants that we’ve come to love. So when we travel now, we try and scope out some of our favorite foods we’ve come to love.
We strolled along King Street for a bit and ended up at Cupcake as I had recently learned about them in my search for places to eat and things to do in Charleston.
I found that they had a “fan” page on Facebook and joined their page. They recently started a birthday club and knowing that I wasn’t going to be here for my birthday I thought I’d inquire as to whether I could get my birthday cupcake early or not. They were so awesome in allowing me to do so, so we popped in and I got a black & white. Not as big as the ones I’ve grown accustom to at Bubblecake or Crumbs, but very moist and the perfect dessert.
This morning we woke up and met up with Kim for breakfast in Mt. Pleasant which is just over the river from Charleston. We went to Page’s Okra Grill.
I got a low country favorite of Shrimp and Grits with an Andouille Sausage gravy. It was INCREDIBLE!!!! Eric got the seafood omelets, which was made of crab, shrimp and grouper with onions, tomatoes and pepperjack cheese. Everything was so delicious and well prepared.
Charleston currently has their restaurant week going on and we’ll be going to Old Village Post House for dinner. The Old Village Post House is a beautiful old home which has been converted into a restaurant. There are several small dining rooms and we dined right outside of the open kitchen. For restaurant week they have 3 courses for $30.00. You choose an appetizer, entrée and dessert. I had the smoked fish dip for an appetizer and it was wonderful. They smoke the fish in-house and it was just right. For my entrée I had the salmon with a mustard glaze and garlic mash and chocolate cake for dessert. The dessert was just….okay. Eric and our friend both had the steak for dinner. We headed down to Shem’s Creek to take some pictures and hung out for a bit and then decided we needed more dessert. We ended up at Crave which is a very cool little place in Mt. Pleasant. I had the tempura French toast bites and Eric had blueberry cobbler.
All in all it was a good day and a nice little introduction to Charleston.
Tomorrow we sail…
