The Charleston City Paper today published a massive list of more than 400 winners of its annual contest of readers’ choices of the best of Charleston — from restaurants and bars to shops, services, personalities and more. 

Learn more about dozens of winners from our featured profiles and interviews with longtime champs and those who are new to the Best Of club, like Live 5 News Sports Anchor Kevin Bilodeau and weatherman Bill Walsh. 

The list covers everything you need to know — from where to find the best cocktails in town and which new restaurant to try to who you should call when looking for a new pet trainer or physician. Tip your hat to the locals who keep our community running and make Charleston the place we know and love.



In other headlines:

CP: Students study, re-enact Charleston’s history. Charleston Progressive is one of five schools that participated in an oral history project called “Black Wall Street of Charleston,” educating the students about the history of Brooks Motel’s restaurant and other Black-owned businesses that were essential to Black life in a segregated Charleston.

CP: The burden of struggling with mental health. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Charleston mental health and community outreach professionals say it’s important to talk about struggling with mental health and ask for help when it’s available.

CP: More comics bring talent to Charleston stages. Rip City, a Saturday Night Live-inspired sketch comedy show, is the longest running improv show at Theater 99, bringing local talent and laughs to the Charleston comedy scene.

Folly Beach turns 50. Fifty years have passed since the town once known as the Edge of America was incorporated into its own municipality. To celebrate, the city is hosting a series of events, including the opening of its new museum highlighting the town’s history.

Charleston transit projects get $100M funding boost. The Lowcountry Rapid Transit project received $100 million as part of President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget request to Congress.

Delta trims Charleston flights, adds bigger planes. Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines is cutting back flights to Boston, Detroit and Minneapolis from Charleston and adding one flight to New York’s LaGuardia Airport. To compensate, the airline is switching out its smaller planes to larger ones to hold more passengers.

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