Guerrilla Cuisine with Two Boroughs Larder

It has been too long since I spent an evening at a Guerrilla Cuisine event! This evening's dinner featured Two Boroughs Larder and was held at Stems on Coming St. Jimihatt coordinated another great evening.

If you haven't tried one of these events you really should. Check the website for upcoming events and register your email to get on the mailing list. After you register for the dinner you are sent the secret location. It is always a taste treat and a fun evening. We always seem to meet some one interesting our table.

I need to get to bed, kids. I greet twenty two teenagers first thing in the morning who think they want to be doctors and nurses. Wish me luck!

Hairy Bikers

Hairy Bikers! Ha! I found this video of my friend Jimihat from Guerrilla Cuisine on a History Channel show show called Hairy Bikers.

If you haven't gone to a Guerrilla Cuisine event yet, you should try one this year. Sign up for event info, buy a ticket to the dinner that looks interesting. A day or two before the event you get an email telling you where the secret location is. There are usually musicians and featured artists each time as well. Enjoy and ask Jimi how his adorable twin daughters are.

Guerrilla Cuisine - Chef Nico Romo

Guerrilla Cuisine, Lowndes Grove, Charleston, S.C.

I was lucky to attend the Guerrilla Cuisine dinner last night because the featured Chef was Nico Romo from FISH restaurant and I am a fan. The location is revealed the day before and I was tickled to learn it was at Lowndes Grove Plantation because although I've driven by a hundred times I've never actually been inside the gates. The setting was so beautiful with the tables set to overlook the sunset reflected on the Ashley River.

Chef Nico did a proper French dinner with French onion soup, frogs legs and snails (oh my!), beef wellington and a napoleon treat for dessert. We sat at a the end of a long table and I was thoroughly entertained by members of the military bomb squad next to me who made the evening a treat. Two of our other table companions were celebrating anniversaries made it a festive occasion. Jimihatt and Angel were the perfect hosts as always.

Click here to get on the mailing list for future Guerrilla Cuisine dinners. I put some photos on Facebook last night but will add a few more here for my table companions. Thanks for a fun evening!

Dinner & Dancing. Oh my!

Chef Sean, O-ku, King St., Charleston, S.C.

I was ambling down King St. yesterday enjoying Car Free King St. Day when my friend Dr. Geer called offering me his Guerrilla Cuisine tickets for the evening. Could I use them? Yessiree. Lucky me. (Thank you, thank you!)

The evening's dinner was held inside the stylish new sushi restaurant Oku on upper King St. Heard about it, heard about it but hadn't been inside yet. I'd been told about great sushi, beautiful servers with tiny black dresses and dangerously high heels. All true.

Chef Brett McKee from Oak and Chef Sean from O-ku (Oak in Japanese) alternated preparing our seven tasty courses.

We snuck in at the last minute. I told them I was Dr. Geer and took the last few seats near the door. This spot was important when the intermission entertainment turned out to be a Burlesque Show. Holy cow! They hung a tiny black drape in the window but these gals were stripping to next to nothing with their backs facing a surprised audience on King St. It was almost as much fun watching their faces as it was the dancers.

The dishes caused serious excitement among the real sushi lovers. More photos here. Jimihatt and Angel were gracious hosts as always.

Food for the People - and Me, Me, Me!

Guerrilla Cuisine, Hampton Park, Charleston, S.C.

I am late to the game, finally attending a Guerrilla Cuisine dinner well into it's third year of monthly dinners. Shame on me.

Guerrilla Cuisine is Charleston's original collaborative dining project. While the idea of "underground", "alternative" dining is not a new one we've put our spin on it, refined it and brought it to Charleston starting with two dinners in November of 2007. Since those dinners we've evolved and continue to evolve into an exciting culinary, social and philanthropic venture that pushes boundaries, brings awareness and builds communities.

While you may know Guerrilla does at least one event per month and that the event location is only available to paid guests the night before the event. What you may not know is that each event is a collaboration between us, the chef, the farmer, the artists and a particular charity. Think of it as a local awareness project with proceeds from each event benefiting a selected charity...sometimes national, often local.

Guerrilla Cuisine is not for everyone, it's not a sit at the table look at a big menu and pick what you want. It's 5-7 course prix fixe meal to which you BYOB and sit at communal tables with other people as cool as you. Our events are held in unconventional spaces that thus far have included a winery, art galleries, a backyard, a living room, and a warehouse.

I was lucky! Not only did I get to attend I was invited to take the photos which gives me leeway to roam and snoop. The chef for the evening was Jill Mathias from Carolina's (yum, yum) and the setting was the greenhouse at Hampton Park. Nine courses, kids! So much delicious food that we had to have an intermission and listen to music and rest up to feast some more. I ate rabbit with gnocchi, soft shell crab and pan roasted tile fish in a greenhouse, can you imagine? It was all scrumptious.

Our host JimiHatt (yep, all one word) coordinates the events now with the help of his wife Angel. Friend him under "Guerrilla Cuisine" on Facebook or register at his web site to find out about upcoming dinners. After you register, if you are lucky enough to snag a ticket in time, you are sent the secret location twenty four hours before dinner time.

Thanks folks. It was a grand evening. More photos here.