Charleston Checklist: Party Time on East Bay Street
February 22, 2010
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If King Street is Charleston’s hip, edgy entertainment district, then East Bay Street is party central for The Normals. East Bay Street is where tourist families dine and stroll (and sleep if they have the bucks.) East Bay is where parents take their Citadel cadet boys out for dinner, and where regular joes like me splurge on their anniversaries. East Bay Street is also where you will see drunken bachelorette-party chicks squeal and woo-hoo and stumble in their bare feet, narrowly missing stepping on cockroaches the size of your hand.
Old or young, local or tourist, art maven or beer drinker, East Bay Street has something for everyone. But here is a caution: beware the menace known as Gelato Bikini Girls! These are young ladies wearing next to nothing, pushing Italian Ice carts down East Bay Street. Just like your typical crack dealer, they start you off with a free sample that gets you hooked on gelato (and being served by a bikini girls.) And the next thing you know, you’re spending $30 on treats for the entire family. Thanks dad!
And now, A Google-eyed view of Charleston’s East Bay Street:
East Bay Street Dining
Grill 225 (inside Market Pavilion Hotel)
Fleet Landing Restaurant (on Concord Street)
Tsunami Japanese
Buccaneer Restaurant – Pirate Theme (on Faber Street)
High Cotton - Southern Cooking, Lowcountry Kitchen
Slightly North of Broad – Lowcountry Restaurant
Subway
Cypress - Casual Elegant
Magnolias Uptown Down South
Robert’s - French Restaurant
Blossom Café
Griffon (on Vendue Range)
French Quarter Restaurant
The Library Restaurant (on Vendue Range)
Harbour Club (on Prioleau Street)
Southend Brewery & Smokehouse
Pearlz Oyster Bar
Mc Crady's - Contemporary American
Saracen – French Restaurant
Carolina's Restaurant (on Exchange Street)
East Bay Street Bars and Nightclubs
Brick
Wet Willie’s
Johnson's Pub & Pizzeria (on Cumberland)
Moe's Downtown Tavern
Social Wine Bar and Restaurant
East Bay Meeting House
East Bay Street Retail
Charleston Cooks – Culinary School
Harbor Specialties – Embroidery and Monograms
Charlestowne Tobacco and Wine
Indigo Blue – Gifts and Stationery (on Vendue Range)
The Charleston Beer Exchange (on Exchange Street)
East Bay Street Galleries
Gordon Wheeler Gallery
Robert Lange Studios (on Queen Street)
Charleston Artist Guild Gallery
City Gallery at Waterfront Park
Lowcountry Artists Ltd
Read & Mullin - Art Appraisal (on Gillon Street)
Eva Carter Gallery
East Bay Street Hotels
Market Pavilion
Lodge Alley Inn
Anchorage Inn (on Vendue Range)
Vendue Inn (on Vendue Range)
Vendue Suites (on Vendue Range)
Harbourview Inn (on Vendue Range)
Bed & Breakfast at 4 Unity Alley
East Bay Street Parking
Street-level lot at Market Street by Customs House
Parking Garage at 215 East Bay (Near Market Pavilion)
Parking Garage at Concord and Cumberland (behind Charleston Cooks)
Parking Garage at Cumberland and Church
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