Category: Eats

Halo was good enough to warrant another visit for lunch today, this time with my good camera.
Today I went for the Maryland Crab Cake sandwich. This is now my new favourite sandwich.
Almost all crab, with just enough filler to hold things together and carry the seasonings. For $8 you probably aren’t going to find a better crab cake in the Charleston area (I haven’t encountered one yet). Comes with house-made potato chips, pickle and topped with a pickled okra. The crab cake comes in a large round pretzel roll which makes eating it sandwich style kind of tricky without having crab cake smoosh out the sides. I just ate it piece by piece, starting with the top part. The crab cake is delicious, and something you’ll want to take your time savouring. The relish and crab bits that fell out were wrapped up in the lettuce burrito style. Then polished off the bottom half of the roll.
If you’re in the area, it’s a great place to stop for lunch. It gets pretty busy around noon for the lunch rush, but you can always call ahead and place your order. There’s plenty of seating upstairs where it’s a lot quieter.

Across the street from MUSC where Blend used to be, a new place called Halo has opened up shop.
There’s a pretty wide selection of items on the menu from breakfasty things to sandwiches, salads and desserts.
And they have wi-fi too.
Prices are pretty reasonable with most of the sandwiches priced around the $8 mark.
Open faced meatloaf sandwich topped with mashed potatoes

Half of a jumbo slice of key lime pie

Feeling rib-y again after lunch, so it was a half rack at Jim ‘n Nick’s BBQ at tonight’s CHSTweetup.

After 6 long months of construction and eating outside in the big white tent, MUSC has a shiny new cafeteria. Personally, I think the highlight of the cafeteria is the nifty rotisserie. You can stop by in the morning and have a look at what’s being rotisserie’d for lunch later on.
Today it was ribs. For cafeteria fare, the ribs were pretty decent.