Best North Charleston Bar
Madra Rua Pub
Readers Pick
One of the most authentic Irish taverns in the Charleston area, this Park Circle gem wins for the third year in a row.
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- Best Way to Ruin an Entire Sunday Afternoon, 2011 Edition
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- Best Meatballs this Side of the Camp North Star Messhouse
- Best Place to Get Purple Potatoes and Pecan Pesto on Your Pizza
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- Best Way to Have a Little Lost in Translation Experience
- Best Party Palace for Getting Lost in Translation and Playing Crazy Asian Games
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- Best New Invasive Species Eating Trend
- Best Octopus
- Best Beer Dinners
- Best Replacement for Raval and Chai's
- Best Sack of Local Meat
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- Best Example of a Previously Inconceivable Loss Since the Michigan Wolverines Lost to the Hawaii Warriors in Six Inches of Snow in Ann Arbor
- Best Cycling and Eating Combo
- Best Reason to Never Serve Champagne at an Oyster Roast
- Best Chef Shuffle
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- Best Place to Dine on Food Fit for Gen. Barnicke in a Setting Fit for Private John Winger
- Best Upscale Heathy Food
- Best Place to Get as Pickled as Herman Blume's Liver
- Best Raw Fish Dish in Town. And That's the Fact, Jack!
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- Best Daniel Island Bar
- Best Mt. Pleasant Bar
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- Best Authentic Pub
- Best No-Frills Watering Hole
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- Best Gay Club
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- Best Margarita
- Best Cold Beer
- Best Cheap Beer Deal
- High Cotton
- Best sake selection this side of Tokyo
- Best New Flavored Booze
- Best Bivalve Shot
- Best Drinking Trend
- Best Stick-It-to-the-Beer-Snobs Beer Selection
- Best Use of Pickled Shrimp
- Best Bloody Mary Morning
- Best Homemade Bloody Mary Mix
- Best New Beer Bar
- Best Happy Hour Digs to Catch a Seaside Sunset
- Best Gin-Based Elixir
- Best Way to Feel Like You've Left the Country
- Best Tequila Buzz on a Work Night
- Best Wine Rack
- Best Movie Theater That Makes Us Wonder Why All Movie Theaters Don't Serve Booze
- Best New Caffeinated Liquor
- Best Clock for Alerting You to Closing Time
- Best Spiced Black Coffee
- Best Ice Cube
- Best Spiced Latte
- Best Reason to Skip Starbucks
- Best Cheap Cup of Coffee
- Best Misleading Bar Name
- Best Malawi Coffee
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- Best Boogie for Broke Bums
- Best Place to Debate Beer Flavor Profiles
- Best Sippin' Fest
- Best New Microbrewery
- Best Local Specialty Ale
- Best Gin Martini
- Best Summertime Cocktail
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