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”.

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

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 local Asian restaurant plans to open a second location in Evans. Yosko Japanese Steakhouse will open the new location at 3118 William Few Parkway, Unit 9 – the former home of The Flying Biscuit Café – in the Market at Riverwood. The new restaurant will be located just a few doors down from Top China, which has been very popular in Riverwood. The address of the current location is 2825 Washington Road in the Fairway Square Shopping Center in Augusta. Yosko serves a variety of chicken, steak, and

The owners and managers of four Latin American restaurants in the Aiken area, recently reviewed in the Augusta Business Daily, Cabanas as Salvadorean Restaurant on Richland Avenue, Choices (Jamaican and Caribbean) in Graniteville, caterers Paella South originally from Velencia, Venezuela and the latest, El Borikuazo Puerto Rican Restaurant on University Parkway, all agree on several points. They stick to the recipes and the ingredients they used when they learned to cook at their mothers’ knee, usually back in their original country. All are devoted Americans now. And no matter how

This week the owners of Doc’s Porchside tantalized our senses with previews of what is next for their former Wild Wing Café locations in Augusta and Grovetown. The following are photos from their Facebook page with captions showing the progress and developments leading up to the Grand Opening..       In the meantime, Wild Wing Café Corporate is looking at land off the Riverwatch Parkway to build a prototype Wild Wing’s to have more emphasis on live music. August 9th—16th???????? It’s been said all good things come to those

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”.