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Creating this guide

Deidre Schipani

This year, The Post and Courier took a different approach to the production of the annual Restaurant Guide.

A team was assigned to "travel on their stomachs" and create a quintessential listing of places for good eats. We ate haute and low, pub food, grub food, fast food, slow food.

We have not visited every restaurant in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties. We also did not visit national chains, but we did include local and regional operations.

We are fortunate that the food and beverage industry thrives in our beloved Lowcountry, but we did not have "world enough and time" to visit every restaurant. That was one of the reasons that this year's guide includes "People's Choice" results. We asked readers in January to vote online or via a printed ballot for their favorite restaurants in most of the categories in this section. We tabulated the results, and you'll see the top three vote-getters for those categories listed throughout this section.

For the staff's picks, we looked for places that offered definitive experiences in enjoying a particular food or a category of food. We elected not to rank the restaurants within each category, but to list two or three that we highly recommend.

And we all agreed that in matters of taste, it is only your taste that matters.

What a star means

A star before a restaurant listed in the Dining Guide in back of this section, pages 38-47, reflects a recommendation from The Post and Courier's current reviewer or a staff member.