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Charleston Map: MagnoliasMagnolias Frommer's Recommended

Cuisine Southern
Hours Mon-Thurs 11:30am-10pm; Fri-Sat 11:30am-10:45pm; Sun 11am-10pm
Address
185 E. Bay St
Location Around Town
Reservations Reservations recommended
Phone 843/577-7771
Web site www.magnolias-blossom-cypress.com
Prices Main courses $8.95-$30 lunch, $19-$35 dinner
Credit Cards AE, DC, MC, V

Frommer's Review

Magnolias manages to elevate the regional, vernacular cuisine of the Deep South to a hip, postmodern art form that's suitable for big-city trendies but is more likely to draw visiting families instead. The city's former Customs House has been revised into a sprawling network of interconnected spaces with heart-pine floors, faux-marble columns, and massive beams. Many diners fill up on soups and salads at lunch, ranging from a creamy tomato with lump crabmeat to a salmon BLT salad. But blackened catfish, fried green tomatoes, cheese grits, and buttermilk fried chicken breast -- how Southern can you get?

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