Explore the lost history of Henry’s on Market Street, one of Charleston’s most influential restaurants. Rare 1939 and postwar menus reveal how Lowcountry seafood, deviled crab, French culinary technique, and Chef John Bolton helped shape the evolution of Charleston dining.
The Cellar in the Cistern: The Southern Gothic History of Restaurant Marianne in Charleston
In the humid, salt-crusted twilight of 1970s Charleston, Meeting Street was no postcard. It was a landscape of heavy silence and crumbling brick that felt more like a scene from Poe than a travel brochure. Long before the city found its polish, it was a reliquary of subterranean secrets. And beneath one ruined building at …

