Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Monday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad and the tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”.

Blue Collard Catering took on the Covid-19 pandemic and so far, they are winning. In a decades-old house at 113 Waterloo, just off Richland Avenue (U.S. Hwy. 1), is a most unusual “food store,” the dream child of a most unusual Aiken native. First of all, there are no Blue Collards, except in the imagination of owner Christian Carlisle. But his busy fine foods take-out business specializes in the best lean meats, fresh fruits and vegetables, cakes, guacamole, sausage made in their kitchen, goat cheese logs, jalapeno burritos, tomato and