How do you like your greens? with a side of barbecue? If you like collards and barbecue, then this is the festival for you. Celebrate fall harvest at the annual Gaston Collard & BBQ Festival with a parade, free rides, games, antique cars, live entertainment and a barbecue cook-off. There’s even a beauty pageant the […]
If there were a Mt. Rushmore for SCBBQ, Rodney Scott’s ever-smiling visage would be permanently etched into the mountainside. Having gotten his start at the age of 11 cooking his first pig for his father, Rosie, at Scott’s BBQ, their converted gas station/convenience store in Hemingway, Rodney is now among SCBBQ royalty. In fact, Scott’s […]
The Bessinger family of Holly Hill is arguably the most important family in SCBBQ. Originating in Orangeburg County in the late 1930’s, when patriarch Joe Bessinger opened his Holly Hill Café, the Bessingers became the first family of SCBBQ. From Joe, his boys learned to cook whole hogs over wood embers and learned to make […]
Smoke BBQ is a relative newcomer to the Holy City, opening its doors in the Summer of 2015 and leading what is becoming an influx of new BBQ joints to downtown Charleston. Smoke has its beginnings in the food truck scene, but it has set down roots at 487 King Street in the old Motobar location. Heather […]
Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ on Sullivan’s Island does a great business, but I suspect our last review did them no favors. Frankly, the review was too harsh and probably unfair, not unlike the original Bessinger’s review from 2012. In Bessinger’s BBQ Revisited, I explained that I revised the original of each of these reviews […]
All reviews should be taken with a grain of salt, especially those like ours which are typically one-time experiences. Restaurants, like you and I, have their good and bad moments. Couple that with the fact that each person has his or her own taste preferences, and you can understand why any two people may come […]
