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Throw your own Oyster Roast - SC Style
A bushel of oysters + an open fire + family and friends = a traditional SC Oyster Roast. Now you can throw your own Oyster Roast SC style. Get step-by-step instructions including recipes right here in Savor the Flavors.

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Featured Restaurants

Bowens Island Restaurant
The Lowcountry’s favorite seafood dive

No-frills service, creek-side sunset views, customer signatures on graffiti-covered walls, and the oyster room where steaming mollusks are shoveled directly from the fire pit onto rough wooden tables. Locals want to keep it a secret - too late.

Winner of the prestigious 2006 James Beard Foundation “American Classic Restaurant,” Bowens Island Restaurant is the Lowcountry’s favorite seafood dive and the reason some folks travel thousands of miles to Folly Beach.

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Featured Chef

Chef Bob Waggoner
Executive Chef Charleston Grill

Mountain golden trout served with Lowcountry crawfish tails - local young zucchini blossoms stuffed with Maine Lobster. Using seasonal and regional ingredients, Executive Chef Bob Waggoner fuses Lowcountry cooking and his own French-influenced technique to create contemporary and sophisticated new Southern haute cuisine.

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Savory SC September Weekend

In the Lowcountry, The Hilton Head Island FoodFest throws a three-day outdoor festival with over 23 of the island’s most popular restaurants serving samples of their most popular fare. Children’s games, music, and traditional favorites – The Waiter’s Race and The Drink Making Contest - Get ready for SC coastal fun, Sept 13–16.

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Upstate, Greenville hosts Southern Exposure, a three-day celebration of food, wine and music – multi-course dinners with wine pairings, a jazz brunch, wine, beer and musical acts, concerts featuring national recording artists and a grand wine tasting - A fabulous September weekend,
Sept 14–16.

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Featured Recipe

“The Mullusks of Yum”

“The Mullusks of Yum” are two SC Osteidae whose legendary tastes have been proclaimed by thousands. It is well known that the two Mullusk dishes, Oysters Sullivan Island and Oyster Stew, prefer the pairing of Chardonnay.

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Savory Reels

Chef Ricky Mollohan

Not all scallops are equal – Ricky Mollohan, Owner/Chef of Columbia’s Solstice Kitchen & Wine Bar, shows us how to select and sear the best scallops to perfection. Want more? View the complete video of Chef Mollohan preparing Seared Sea Scallops over Country sweet pea corn chowder.

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