Lowcountry Weekly raises a toast to the area’s most interesting watering holes.
Behold: The Andie Belleum
Written by Mark Shaffer
Tuesday, 10 February 2015 11:07
The Old Bull Shakes Up the BIFF Cocktail
Each year the Beaufort Film Society commissions an official cocktail to help toast the film festival. This year festival runners Ron & Rebecca Tucker pay homage to Gaffney native and 2015 BIFF honoree, Andie MacDowell.
Walking into the bar at Sweetgrass is like taking a step back in time. There's a classic feel to the room like a beach house from a long ago family vacation back in the days of wood paneled station wagons and transistor radios.
A Lowcountry Weekly Guide to bar hopping the Historic District PART ONE: THE WATERFRONT Story and photos by Mark Shaffer
“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy”… says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I've not noticed the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster on any local cocktail menus recently, but I'm guessing that if you walked into to some of these establishments and ordered one, you might just get it – or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Beaufort is, after all, known to be a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem. That means there are plenty of options to consider when cocktail hour rolls around and quite a few more that open considerably earlier.
The first thing you notice as you walk into the Spaghetti Club is the gorgeous pine bar and the rustic mass that frames it. This time-worn collection of brick, board and plank looks as if it might have once served in some ancient and storied Lowcountry watering hole – a speakeasy, perhaps – rescued from the wrecking ball to be pieced back together on this genteel corner of Habersham.