Weekly Specials CHS: November 1-7, 2024
Three sustainable Halloween hacks 👻🎃 an update on Sullivan's Fish Camp's new name and menu 🎣🥗 plus get a free pretzel at Bay Street Biergarten with your "I voted" sticker 🥨🗳️
Happy Halloween 👻🎃 Before I get into all of the wonderful events happening this week, I wanted to share three lil’ sustainable Halloween hacks for when the trick-or-treating is over:
Support local farms - livestock will snack on clean pumpkins!
The city keeps a shortlist of farms that will accept your (clean) pumpkins as a tasty treat for their pigs, cows, and chickens. This includes Lightning Rock Land and Cattle in Walterboro, who raise beef cattle, chickens, ducks, and laying hens. Plus, there’s a whole database compiled by Pumpkins for Pigs with a list of farms state-wide that will accept pumpkins. I saw a few farms in Mount Pleasant and Moncks Corner! Just make sure to call before you donate, and check that pumpkins aren’t moldy.
Here’s a spooky fact: 1.3 BILLION pounds of pumpkins end up in U.S. landfills every year - spare the landfill and use your jack-o’-lanterns for composting instead!
If your pumpkins aren’t clean enough to donate to our farm animal friends, then you can still give them a new life by composting them. This year, Smart Recycling has partnered with the city to host pumpkin smash events listed below (fun!), and all scraps will be hauled to the Bees Ferry Composting Facility afterwards. You can also sign up for Charleston’s free food scrap drop off program and drop your pumpkins at one of the city’s twenty food scrap collection sites (find a map and more info on that program here).
In order to compost your pumpkin, make sure you’ve done two things:
If you’ve painted, glued, or glittered your pumpkin, take a veggie peeler and scrape all of that off!
If you burned a candle in your pumpkin that has dripped wax, be sure to remove the wax as it’s not compostable.
Eat candy, and recycle the wrappers at Wake Refill!
Wake Refill, my favorite no-waste sustainable shop in Charleston, has a Terracycle® box right now to recycle candy wrappers during the spooky season. I love Terracycle because they tackle the items that are toughest to recycle locally…not just candy wrappers, but action figures, drink pouches (hi Capri Sun!), and even used chewing gum!
Check out Wake Refill’s blog for what kind of candy wrappers they can and can’t accept. Next time you’re headed up to Sightsee for a coffee, why not gather the clean foil and plastic candy wrappers you have in your house post-Halloween and drop them off at Wake Refill next door?
Weekly specials
Looking for last-minute plans tonight?
There’s a special Halloween Blackbird deal happening at the Tippling House tonight! Stop in to “trick or treat” and get a glass of Monterio Cellars Vermentino orange wine compliments of Blackbird.
Sweatman’s Garden is having EMO-ween with tarot readings from Moon Grotto Metaphysics and ramen from Weems Ramen.
The Backyard at the Ryder Hotel is going full Halloween vibes for the night, with their Spooky Island party starting at 8pm! They’ll have a tarot card reader, DJ, candy apples and, of course, tropical-themed cocktails. They’re also having a costume contest, with an overnight stay at the Ryder as the prize. Buy tickets here.
Saturday, November 2nd
Huriyali is doing a street cleanup series with the Surfrider Foundation, to help keep our waterways clean of marine pollution. The cleanup starts at 9am, but there will be yoga with Gnarmaste from 8:30am. Check out more info in the Instagram post below.
The 2024 Charleston Vegan Festival is happening today from 10am-3pm at Palmetto Island County Park! Folks like Lil Sprout Vegan Desserts, Bangin Vegan Eats, Vibrant Alkaline Vegan Meals, and Three Girls on Spring will be there, and you can buy tickets on Eventbrite here
This isn’t as directly food-related but I have been obsessed with Middleton Made Knives for YEARS, and I was so excited to see that he’s having a grand opening at the Navy Yard in North Charleston from 11am-6pm. I am so excited to see his stunning work in person in his studio for the first time.
Bebe’s Bakes is hosting a pie cookie platter decorating class at Snafu Brewing at noon today….how cute do they look?! Buy tickets for the class here.
Sunday, November 3rd
Slow Food Charleston is partnering with Slow Food USA and Slow Fish North America for a Slow Fish Festival at Bowens Island Restaurant from 2-5pm. It’ll be a free community gathering with Co-Hog, Casual Crabbing with Tia, the Good Catch Network from the South Carolina Aquarium, and plenty of local chefs and restaurants, too.
Bright Light Bakery will be popping up at Graft for Good Neighbor Sunday from 3-6pm, and they’ll be bringing their sourdough bread and some treats, too!
Monday, November 4th
Monarch Wine is hosting a wine tasting from 5:30-7:30pm with regenerative organic winemaker Amevive.
Tuesday, November 5th
Starting today, Frankie Ramen is now full-time at Frontier Lounge. You can find his ramen at Frontier from Tuesdays through Saturdays each week now.
Wednesday, November 6th
The Boathouse at Breach Inlet is having a special oyster & wine dinner featuring oysters from Lady Island Oyster Company, wines from Breakthru Beverage, and chef Jacqueline Hartman in charge of the six dinner courses. Reserve tickets on OpenTable here.
Thursday, November 7th
Local non-profit the Stone Soup Collective is having their annual Full Bellies Empty Bowls fundraiser at Society Hall from 5:30-8:30pm. If you haven’t been before, the way it works is that you choose a handmade bowl and fill up on the soups they’re serving. When the event is over, you can take the bowl home with you! Find tickets and more info here.
Lil’ updates
Pretzels for democracy! Show your “I voted” sticker at Bay Street Biergarten now through November 3rd, and get a free pretzel!
I went to the Spicewalla store downtown last weekend, and it’s such a beautiful space! They’re stocked to the gills with spices, but also fun pantry products like Momofuku chili crisp, Big Spoon Roasters nut butters, New York Shuk harissa, and Brooklyn Delhi sauces. Did you know that they have a spice trade-in program? Bring in your old, expired spices, and you can get 15% off of your Spicewalla purchase! I learned in culinary school that spices are really only at their peak for six months, and after that, they should be replaced. If you’ve got spices that have been sitting around your kitchen for a little too long, consider switching them out!
Sullivan’s Fish Camp has a new name and menu! Yesterday, Basic Projects (the hospitality & design company behind Basic Kitchen, the Post House Inn and Sullivan’s) announced that the restaurant is now called Sullivan’s Seafood and Bar. They’re moving away from their fish camp-style menu and more towards “simple, fresh dishes driven by seasonal produce”. I’m excited about this! Learn more and see a sneak peek of their new dishes below…the olive oil poached tuna looks so good.
Here’s a few other dishes around town that caught my eye this week:
Odd Duck Market has a gorgeous and VEGAN Biscoff cookie cheesecake while supplies last!
Indaco’s butternut squash pizza looks perfect for fall.
New openings
Roseline, a new cozy neighborhood bar is opening in Sightsee’s old space on November 8th! I absolutely love their branding and design, and the interiors look lush…I’m excited to stop by for a glass of wine soon. Check out how they transformed the formerly bright white space into one with dark gleaming wood and deep burgundy tones and textures in their latest Instagram Reel.
Farewells
Rutledge Cab Co. closed suddenly earlier this week. They announced on Monday that lunch that day would be their last service. The owners still own the building, but will be renting the space to a new restaurant soon.
That’s a wrap!
Know of a restaurant- or food-related event coming up that you think should be included in an upcoming Weekly Special? DM me!
Planning on going to one of the events, bars or restaurants mentioned above in the next week? Leave a comment and let me know your plans! I’m nosy!
Wishing you a wonderful week ahead!