Bon Appetit (BA) magazine this week released its 20 Best New Restaurants of 2024 list and two Charleston spots are included: downtown’s Bintü Atelier and North Charleston’s King BBQ.
If you wanted to make it a math equation: According to a popular, national publication, 10% of the best new restaurants in the country opened in the Charleston area over the past year.
The list considered restaurants that opened between March 2023 and March 2024. BA writers and tasters traveled the country for six months to places where the publication said it “found teams working together in exciting ways.”
The magazine specifically called out the “historically guarded world of Southern barbecue,” in which King BBQ’s chef Shuai Wang is operating.
“Chef Shuai Wang and partner Corrie Wang joined forces with pitmaster Brandon Olson to create a cultural mash-up at King BBQ. In a dining room adorned with hanging red lanterns, they serve chili-crisp-flecked sausages and cha shao spareribs alongside dan dan noodles and shrimp toast sliders.”
Writer Jennifer Hope Choi praised the West African food found at Senegalese chef Bintou N’Daw’s Bintü Atelier: “Though she’s classically trained in French pastry, N’Daw’s focus here is on craveable homestyle cooking. Tantalizing crab rice dotted with steamed pumpkin and smoky Ghanaian shito or tender goat egusi with pillowy fufu emerge from a tiny kitchen.”
- Check out the full list online.
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