The Industry Sour is a cocktail improvised by The Darling Oyster Bar’s bar manager Dan Williams. Post & Courier

For show-stopping fruits de mer platters à la something you’d find in France, make for this fab little oyster bar, on the ground floor of a historic 1900 building in the Upper King District. Passersby are often seen stopped on the street outside its windows, ogling the piles of crab legs and bivalves cooling on ice. Grab a stool at the zinc bar, or settle into a booth at one of the ...

At Charleston's Darling Oyster Bar—and yes, it earns its name—they serve their signature hush puppies with sorghum butter. A grain traditionally spun into syrup in the South, sorghum adds a sweetness to butter that's far more interesting than honey. Extra Crispy