Restaurant Week

Charleston is known for great food. We were lucky enough to arrive during Restaurant Week, when various restaurants offer prix fixe dinner menus - 3 courses for $20, $30, or $40. A little googling tells me 140 restaurants are participating this year, and some offer lunch as well. It's actually a bit more than a week, starting 9/3 this year, with today being the last day.

Since Russ was here before I was, he made an executive decision to make reservations for both last night and tonight. This late in the week, there were not many openings, so we ate quite late - after 9 last night and about 8 tonight.

At Blossom on Saturday

We walked to Blossom on Saturday. It's a lovely little restaurant, but rather loud. Didn't help that we were seated next to a large group of guys, with another large group right behind them.

Blossom's Chicken with Waffles

I thought the Chicken with Waffles and blueberry sauce was an interesting appetizer. The chicken was fried, but quite light. Overall, the dish was a little sweet for me, but very good. Russ had the fried calamari with peach sauce, which he quite enjoyed. Our entrees were Pan Roasted Mahi Mahi (me) and Cornmeal Dusted Catfish for Russ. For dessert we both had Banana Cream Pie - cute little individual pies that weren't quite what we expected, but were still quite good.




Tonight we went to Oak Steakhouse. We were running a little late, it looked like rain, and they'd called to tell us they offered valet parking so we drove. I know, we'll try not to make it a habit.

Milk Chocolate Cheesecake at the Oak

The restaurant was quite chilly, so we both ordered the Tomato Bisque soup to start, which was quite good. Then Russ had the Market Catch, Grouper on a bed of quinoa with cherry tomatoes. I had the Filet Mignon over mashed potatoes and spinach. It was the best steak I'd had in some time. Very tender, even though I order it well done. The Oak is justifiably proud of their steaks, and I highly recommend them. Dessert was also delicious - Milk Chocolate Cheesecake with salted caramel sauce, chocolate cookie crumbles and vanilla whipped cream. It was beautiful, too - sorry I didn't manage to take a picture before digging in! It was just too tempting.

It's a good thing the week is over. So many delicious choices, but then you have these 3 courses and so naturally you have to eat all three. I'd be gaining weight again quickly if it went on much longer.