For the Love of Food Our 2015 Golden Spoon Award Winners
favorite restaurants in the tri-county area. National accolades are great, but no one loves you more than your local family, right? The Golden Spoon Awards are divided into five categories:
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quality of cuisine, ambience, cocktail options, service and value. The winning 15 restaurants in the following pages scored all five spoons in each of the five categories. We’ve also chosen eight addi- tional winners for the Editor’s Picks category, ranging from sushi to Southern cooking. These eight places are our personal go-tos when hunger strikes, and we know you’re bound to love them, too. The three chefs pictured on our cover represent a few of the
winning establishments, and you can tell from their beaming faces that they love good food. From left to right are: Landen Ganstrom, Crave Kitchen & Cocktails; Kelly Franz, Magnolia’s; and Adam Ja- kins, Halls Chophouse. They were styled and photographed by Jenn Cady of Jenn Cady Photography inside the Charleston Distilling Company on Upper King Street. Thanks to everyone for your effort! We hope you enjoy reading about the winning restaurants.
We’re including responses from our readers as well as our own remarks, plus contact information so you can visit these heavenly dining options for yourself. We had more than 8,000 spoons cast by residents in 22 states and 107 cities, and we’re excited to have such great results for our first year. Thanks for voting and for reading The Golden Spoon
Awards. Enjoy!
Denise K. James Managing Editor
t’s hardly news that life in the Lowcountry is mostly about food. We love to eat and visit new restaurants regularly – and we figured that if we have favorites, our neighbors probably do, too. That’s when we thought up The Golden Spoon Awards. It’s a way for locals to show devotion to their
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