Allora
Allora is on Spring Street in Cannonborough-Elliotborough. Explore Charleston reported in spring 2026 that it had added a weekday happy hour from 4pm to 6pm with half-price cocktails and house wines and discounted Peroni.
Over 50 Charleston: Cannonborough-Elliotborough
A few blocks of old houses and corner stores west of Upper King. All three of Charleston's MICHELIN one-star restaurants are here, along with a bar inside a bookshop.
Annie Mae's Bakeshop
Annie and Jason Vieira spent more than two years baking breads and desserts for Charleston restaurants before opening their own shop at St. Philip and Cannon in 2026. The Post and Courier lists buttermilk pie, carrot caramel cake, key lime pie on a pecan cookie crust and biscuits made with butter and creme fraiche, with lattes flavored with pistachio butter or banana toffee. Seating is at stools inside.
Babas on Cannon
Babas takes its cue from the neighborhood cafes and bars of Italy, France and Spain, running from morning coffee and pastries into sandwiches, wine and cocktails at night. Cannon Street is the first of its rooms. A third opened on Wentworth Street in January 2026, and the Post and Courier reported in August 2026 that the Meeting Street cafe would move into the former Rodney Scott's BBQ building at 1011 King Street.
Bareo
Nikko Cagalanan and Paula Kramer opened Bareo on 13 February 2026 in the Spring Street room where their restaurant Kultura started. The Post and Courier describes Japanese-Filipino cooking built around hand-rolled dumplings and kakigori, the Japanese shaved ice, along with onigiri, noodle soup, bento boxes, sake and tea. It has a patio.
Bistronomy by Nico
Bistronomy by Nico is a low-lit French room on Spring Street with a long list of French wines. City Paper describes approachable French cooking with an Asian twist. It entered a burger in City Paper's 2026 Burger Throwdown.
Bon Banh Mi
Bon Banh Mi sells banh mi, salads and wings under the line 'Simple. Bold. Fresh.' from a small shop on Spring Street, with two more shops in Mount Pleasant. City Paper readers voted it Best Vietnamese in 2026.
Chez Nous
The address is a court, not a street: 6 Payne Court, a short dead-end in Elliotborough. Charleston Magazine's dining guide calls it petite and a cozy Elliotborough gem, with chef Jill Mathias cooking seasonal French-inspired food beside a serious wine list. The menu changes daily, and the magazine notes the only way to see it in advance is the restaurant's Instagram feed.
Chubby Fish
Chef James London, a Charleston native, opened Chubby Fish in 2018 and still takes no reservations. The menu changes daily around what local fishermen and farmers bring in. The James Beard Foundation named it a 2026 semifinalist for Outstanding Restaurant, its second straight year on that list, per Charleston City Paper, and City Paper readers voted London Best Restaurant Chef in Best of Charleston 2026. The Post and Courier points to caviar sliders and grilled oysters with crab fat curry, and to the adjacent bar, Seahorse. It is Recommended in the inaugural MICHELIN Guide American South.
D'Allesandro's Pizza
D'Allesandro's opened on this St. Philip Street corner in 2006 and says it is family-run, with 10 percent off for active military every day. It has since added a second shop at Nexton in Summerville. City Paper readers voted it Best Traditional Pizza in 2026, in a tie.
Dave's Carry-Out
A corner take-out window of a room with a few tables. City Paper's Charleston Classics list dates it to 1997 and says a few tables let customers dine in but most people take their box to go ... pork chops, wings, ribs, lima beans and rice, and seafood platters. In June 2026 the paper priced a shrimp platter at $10, scallops at $16 and the full platter with shrimp, fish, scallops and deviled crab at $21.50, all with fries.
Estadio
Estadio is a Spanish room on Spring Street that sums itself up as gin tonics, tapas, pintxos, vermouth, sherry and natural wine. It takes a few reservations and a lot of walk-ins. City Paper's Top 50 points to its sherry and gin lists.
Kultura
Chef Nikko Cagalanan and co-owner Paula Kramer ran Kultura at 73 Spring Street for two years, then moved it in the fall of 2025 to 267 Rutledge Avenue, the former home of Chasing Sage. The Post and Courier calls Cagalanan a James Beard Award finalist and lists snapper curry, arroz caldo, lumpia and ribs with banana ketchup. City Paper calls the cooking an homage to a Filipino grandmother's kitchen tied to the Lowcountry. Readers voted Cagalanan runner-up for Best Restaurant Chef in 2026.
Kyn
Tae Woo Lee and Peter Marcus opened Kyn in September 2026 in a brick building on Cannon Street that the Post and Courier says once housed a YMCA established in 1866. The menu is hand rolls, sashimi, crudos and small plates, and Lee's Korean heritage shows in the chojang sauce and in herbs grown outside the restaurant. The owners call it the most untraditional sushi restaurant you are going to find.
Luther's Market
Mother and son Kiki and Hudson Luthringshausen opened Luther's Market in June 2026 after running a food trailer around the Lowcountry. Shoppers can watch Hudson roll fusilli and fettuccine while they pick up sauces, sandwiches, salads, local meats and pastries from Grit Bakery. The Post and Courier says private pasta-making classes for four to eight people are planned.
Malagón Mercado y Tapería
Malagón opened in 2019 as a neighborhood market and tapería from chef Juan Cassalett, his wife chef Jill Mathias, and Patrick and Fanny Panella, the same partners behind Chez Nous a block and a half away. The Post and Courier says it took over a former gourmet sandwich shop. Cassalett cooked at FIG and Xiao Bao Biscuit before this, per Charleston Wine + Food. The market side imports Spanish wine, canned seafood, cheese and charcuterie, and the wine and beer list is Spanish only. It earned One MICHELIN Star in the inaugural American South guide on 3 November 2025.
Philosophers & Fools
A bar inside a bookshop on a residential corner. The Post and Courier (17 May 2024) wrote that when you walk into the corner store at 50 Bogard Street there is a long wooden bar with black barstools to the left and bookshelves of titles for sale to the right. Co-owners Jenny Ferrara and her husband, Michael Bourke, longtime Charleston residents, opened it in 2024 because they like to read while having a drink and wanted to build a little clubhouse. On 11 June 2026 the paper reported it ranked sixth in USA Today's 2026 10Best Readers' Choice Awards for independent bookstores, the only South Carolina shop on the list. It draws people before and after dinner at Chubby Fish, Vern's and Bistronomy by Nico.
Rivayat
Sujith Varghese, who also owns Spice Palette in Mount Pleasant, opened Rivayat on 18 September 2025 in the 60-seat room that earlier held Makan and Goulette. The venue says its three chefs, Vinayak, Vikas and Midhun, were all born and raised in Kerala on India's coast. The Post and Courier describes oysters with tandoori-spiced butter and lobster in coconut sauce beside butter chicken and lamb vindaloo.
Seahorse
The bar next door to the hardest table in town. The Post and Courier's 2026 itinerary (14 January 2026) says to pop by Chubby Fish's next-door bar, Seahorse, for some of the top cocktails in Charleston. The bar describes itself as a small cocktail bar and supper club with great cocktails, excellent wine and a small, ever-changing food menu, and it does not take reservations.
Southbound
Southbound cooks over a wood fire on Cannon Street and is part of Free Reign Restaurants. City Paper describes a menu that changes daily around the grill, naming steak tartare and octopus.
Stella's
Stella's is named for Stella Dikos, born in occupied Greece in 1942, who learned to cook from friends and family as a teenager and came to the United States after marrying Stavros Dikos. The Charleston room opened in 2017 as the second Stella's. City Paper readers voted it Best Greek in 2026 and its Top 50 notes grilled octopus, spanakopita and braised lamb.
The Grocery
Chef Kevin Johnson's restaurant at the corner of Cannon and King calls itself a neighborhood gathering place built on ingredients from its favorite farmers, fishermen, foragers and artisans. City Paper describes the cooking as new Southern cuisine that is not bound by borders. The venue posts dated menus, the latest dinner menu dated 16 September 2026.
The Press
A weekday lunch window with three things on the menu. Tippling House owners Matthew Conway and Carissa Hernandez renovated the old Taco Spot building at 221 1/2 Coming Street for grab-and-go pressed burritos, City Paper reported on 11 January 2022. Pick-up is at the window and the owners said it can be done without parking the car. In June 2026 City Paper listed a veggie bean burrito at $10, chicken at $12 and steak at $14, pressed crisp on a flour tortilla with cheese, fries, avocado and pico de gallo.
The Tippling House
A wine bar in a house, not a storefront. The Post and Courier's 2026 itinerary (14 January 2026) describes it as tucked inside a 150-plus-year-old single house in Cannonborough-Elliotborough, steps from Chez Nous and Chubby Fish. Sommelier Matthew Conway opened it in October 2021 with his wife, Carissa. Micah Pearson runs the food menu. The same owners run The Press, a burrito window next door.
Three Girls on Spring
A plant-based Italian delicatessen. The Post and Courier reports it is run by Tracey Alexander and her adult daughters Brittany Guerra and Taylor Pitts, who came from Guilford, Connecticut, where the family runs Three Girls Vegan Creamery. Alexander and her mother went vegan after her mother's Stage 4 cancer diagnosis in 2011, and the family developed some 800 recipes; lasagna and meatballs are among them. Charleston City Paper reported the opening in February 2024.
Two Blokes Brewing (Cannon Street)
Two Blokes opened its second taproom on August 11, 2026 in a restored 19th-century building on Cannon Street near MUSC, the Post and Courier reported. It has a small-batch system for experimental beers, wine from Grassroots Wine, and a kitchen doing hand-cut fries, pretzels with beer cheese, wings and flatbreads.
Vern's
Bethany and Dano Heinze opened Vern's in 2022 in a converted corner grocery store at Bogard and Ashe streets, according to The Post and Courier. Dano Heinze is the chef-owner. The room is known for escargot with tarragon and Gruyère, handmade pastas, roast chicken and house sourdough. It earned One MICHELIN Star in the inaugural American South guide on 3 November 2025, with the food and the wine program both cited in local coverage.
Wild Common
Executive chef Orlando Pagán, who came out of McCrady's, runs a multi-course tasting menu here with optional caviar and wagyu add-ons, a chef's counter facing the kitchen, and wine pairings. The Post and Courier says the restaurant opened about seven years ago and moved to the tasting-menu format after the pandemic. Pagán was a James Beard Award semifinalist in 2022, per The Post and Courier. The room shows work by Lowcountry artists through the Charleston Artist Collective, and a mezzanine room called The Overlook seats up to 12. It earned One MICHELIN Star on 3 November 2025.
Xiao Bao Biscuit
Xiao Bao Biscuit has been at the corner of Rutledge and Spring since 2012, in a former gas station, and the venue still calls it the origin location. The Post and Courier credits Josh Walker, Duolan Walker-Li and Joey Ryan with opening it. The kitchen pulls from Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese cooking, and the okonomiyaki is the dish most often named. The house rule is on the site in capitals: no reservations, just come, with one large-party booking a night on a fixed shared menu. It is Recommended in the inaugural MICHELIN Guide American South.