Restaurants/Food

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”.

Food trucks have been a convenient and versatile alternative around the country for a decade, or so this writer hears, but not so much around Aiken County, S.C., until the last few years. One of the things that purveyors of the mobile restaurants love about them is that they can pack up and re-appear at the next social event as fast as their permits will allow them. One of the few things that their customer’s sometimes regret is that they don’t know where they are today. Dos Potrillos Mexican Restaurant

For Mark Grant and his family, reopening Adolf Hermann’s successful German restaurant in Evans has been no easy task. Hermann owned and operated Augsburg Haus – located at 4460 Washington Road in the Liberty Square Shopping Center across the street from Walmart, until his death on Sept. 1 at age 56. To mourn his passing, the restaurant closed that day and reopened on Wednesday, Oct. 13, says Mark Grant, his son, who helps his mom, Hazel, and his sister, Wendi, run the restaurant. The biggest challenge has been “him not

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”.

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”.

A popular Augusta Japanese restaurant will open a new location in Columbia County early next year. According to an employee of Miyako Sushi & Steakhouse – located at 2801 Washington Road in the Washington Walk Shopping Center, the new location is scheduled to open next to LongHorn Steakhouse on Lewiston Road in Grovetown in spring 2022. Miyako serves a variety of Japanese dishes, such as hibachi steak, chicken, and shrimp, which come with soup, a salad, vegetables, and either fried rice or lo mein noodles, as well as sushi. For

A new restaurant in North Augusta offers its customers a healthier alternative to the traditional fast-food hamburger. Dawg! That’s Vegan – located at 1696 Knox Avenue near Georgia Avenue, had its soft opening on Thursday, Sept. 30. The restaurant serves a full menu of vegetable-based burgers that taste much like the real thing, as well as French fries and sodas. While it’s only been open a few days, business has been booming, according to Danny Everett, the husband of Angel, the business’s owner. “I can’t believe the amount of people

If you think adopting a vegan lifestyle means giving up hamburgers, think again. A new vegan restaurant in North Augusta serves a variety of healthier, plant-based burgers. Dawg! That’s Vegan – located at 1696 Knox Avenue in North Augusta, is finishing up its first week at their new sit-down restaurant. Of course, customers don’t have to be vegan to enjoy the restaurant’s food. Angel Everett – owner of Dawg! That’s Vegan, founded the business in Feb. 2021 and sold her burgers at local farmers’ markets prior to launching her restaurant.