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December 2011: High Spirits - Cheers: HOT and COLD Cocktails for the Holidays

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year”… a perfect description for December and all of the holiday cheer that coincides with it. It’s also the time for new cocktails and new liquors to enter the market, and this year is no exception. Ciroc Peach…


Hot Sand + Cold Drinks + A Possible Squirrel And A Side Of Pickles = TIKI HUT

Now this is a math equation I can get behind. And no, that is not a typo. JoJo Squirrell and the Home Pickles is the “house band” at the Tiki Hut. Founded over a decade ago, they have been entertaining Tiki Hut revelers with their…


IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE - August 2010

COCKTAIL. LIBATION. BREW.
Whatever you call it, there’s nothing better than a cold drink with spirits to take the edge off of a hot summer day. Courtesy of local watering holes, we share a few of our favorite summer beverages.

Thank goodness Prohibition was repealed!




It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!

Almost every restaurant or bar has a Signature Cocktail. Over the next several months we are going to “steal” their secret recipes and share them with you. What better place to start than at Land’s End with the Salty Dog Café?




Meet Me In THE BOARDROOM

Mention “The Boardroom” and images of sterile, skyscraping conference rooms, hostile takeovers and Donald Trump’s gravity-defying mane may come to mind. Maybe in New York or Chicago, but not on Hilton Head Island. If brothers—and co-owners—Brendan and Thomas Reilley have anything to do with it, when…


October 2011: High Spirits - OKTOBERFEST BEERS

With nights getting cooler and days getting shorter, October is a perfect time for the arrival of the fall seasonal beers, especially the Octoberfests or Oktoberfests. These rich, amber colored beers are full of flavor and excellent with smoked or spicy meats (think sausage!) as…


October 2012: It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere!

Almost every restaurant or bar has a Signature Cocktail. Over the next several months we are going to “steal” their secret recipes and share them with you. This month: CQ’s Restaurant




Relax. Enjoy Life. - Q&A with Derek Cassidy of the Tiki Hut

It’s a sunny, balmy, breezy Wednesday morning, and I’m sitting at the Tiki Hut watching the tide roll in, sipping a bottle of water and chatting with Derek Cassidy, a guy who gets to hang out here every day. Not a bad way to make…


ROKA LIQUEUR-INSPIRED LOCAL SPIRITS

You thought they would stop with the flavor craze at cookies didn’t you? Well, you were wrong. The brilliant spawn of family who owned and operated Hilton Head Cookie Company, brothers Brent and Ryan Elam, have jumped off the cookie wagon into the very fluid…


September 2010: OUR TOWN - Seafood Jazz And Brew

If you can’t be everything to everyone, then just expand the range of what you are. That might seem simple, but it appears to be working for Hilton Head Island’s Seafood, Jazz and Brew Festival, now in its third year. For those with discriminating palettes,…


The Big Chill

The Big Chill—the restaurant, not the movie—is already drawing big crowds on weekends when live bands like Cranford and Sons perform. Visit the restaurant on a hot summer night, try one of the colorful, icy daiquiris—the perfect antidote for summer sweat and swelter—and you’ll discover…


Things Are Happening At Coligny Plaza

Now We Get to Play in the Fountain! Maybe the timing was a little off but that’s all washed away with the tide. The new Coligny Beach Park is complete and with the summer season coming to an end, we get to have all the fun.…


Your Mom’s Island Original: Hilton Head’s Bloody Mary Mix is “Juhhst” Right

A proper Bloody Mary can be a bit temperamental. The reason is simple enough: Those of us who enjoy them can be slightly particular as to what constitutes a good one. Some are too spicy, some are too bland, and some are juhhhst right. Of…


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