Charleston’s Only Chef-Led Culinary & History Tour
Walk the French Quarter. Learn from a chef. Taste history.
Before the yachts and rooftop bars, before the boardwalks filled with visitors on summer evenings, Shem Creek was a working waterfront. At low tide, the smell of pluff mud hung over the marsh, mingling with salt, diesel, and the shrimp boats chugging home. Along that creek stood The Lorelei, a historic seafood restaurant whose menus …
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In the Lowcountry, spring doesn’t arrive on a calendar; it arrives when the blue crab sheds its armor and the docks whisper that soft shell season has begun. Travelers searching for an authentic Charleston food tour or a historic Charleston cooking class often encounter these briny delicacies without realizing they owe their place on the …