Shanika Hillocks spent a weekend in the Charleston area to sample the city’s food scene and learn more about the history of the Gullah Geechee people
Photo-Illustration: Courtesy of Shanika Hillocks Everyone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind–style spreadsheets to come up with the best vacations/itineraries possible.
Hotel Emeline From $329 From $329 at Booking.com Buy 5 p.m. Head to a poolside happy hour We ended up going to a hotel bar called Little Palm , which is inside the Ryder Hotel near its pool. It’s from the same people behind Death & Co in New York. It’s retro in a way and reminded me of a swim club. It has these beautiful pink-and-green lamps with fringe and pink upholstered bar seats and green tiles. We got bites and drinks to toast our first evening.
12 p.m. Eat a traditional Gullah Geechee lunch in the sun We arrived at the Penn Center , which was the first school for newly freed enslaved people in the United States. When you drive out there, you notice it’s a bit separate from things. It was one of the few safe places in the South during that time. Now it’s a cultural center, and there’s a shop where a lot of artisans from the Gullah Geechee community sell their work.
You can grab wine from the cooler, and there’s a beautiful bar where you can drink any of the wines you purchase. Elisa got an orange wine, and I got Champagne. Graft also does weekly pop-ups in its outside parking-lot space with various businesses. It’s every Monday, and there’s pizza. It’s almost like a block party.
8 p.m. Enjoy a night in at the hotel That evening, we had cocktails at the Emeline bar, part of the hotel’s sister restaurant, Frannie & the Fox. It serves Italian and has a wood-fired oven. It felt like the kind of hotel you’d want to be at even if you weren’t a guest. In the daytime, a lot of light comes in, but at night, it feels almost like a lounge. There’s a lot of wood and lush, upholstered hunter green. I had a riff on the daiquiri made with mezcal.
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