This award-winning restaurant has been serving its authentic Southern cooking since 1976. Dinner is served indoors or outside on the porches and patio. The building is believed to be haunted by the ghost of Zoe St. Anad. Dishes include such satisfying Low Country specialties as jambalaya, gumbo, she-crab soup, seasonal seafood, Cajun duck, Southern fried catfish, quail, alligator, and for dessert peanut butter pie. Friends who dined there recently gave it rave reviews, especially at those prices.
Diners can sit in a corner window watching the shoppers.
The menu reflects the Turkish-Italian heritage of the restaurant's owner with choices such as rosemary grilled chicken served over apricot, almond and bulgur salad, grilled portabello panini with sundried tomatoes, basil and gorgonzola and falafel with onion, cucumber and mint. Try Sermet's poached pear and gorgonzola salad or shaved roasted leg of lamb with cracked olive spread when you are tired of grits and shrimp. There is also a thoughtful childrens' menu. It's a great place for a modestly priced lunch, with excellent food and people watching. Its restful, large-windowed interior is popular with the stars of the yearly Spoleto USA Arts Festival.