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Charleston Restaurants in the MICHELIN Guide

Who has the inspectors paying attention?

A MICHELIN designation is one of the few outside judgments a diner already trusts, and it is also one of the easiest things to get wrong: guides change every year, restaurants keep old badges on the wall, and a listing is not a star. Every venue here records which designation it holds and in which year, from the guide's own announcement or the reporting of it. A designation a venue no longer holds is not published as current.

14 spots in Charleston

Chubby Fish

Cannonborough-Elliotborough · $$$ · seafood, lowcountry, oysters

Over 50

FIG

Ansonborough · new american, lowcountry, seafood

Over 50

Husk

French Quarter · southern, lowcountry, new southern

Bars Over 50

Leon's Oyster Shop

Upper King · $$ · seafood, oysters, fried chicken, southern

Bars Family Over 50

Lewis Barbecue

NoMo · $$ · bbq, texas barbecue, texas bbq

Bars BBQ Family Over 50

Lowland

Middle King · southern, new american, lowcountry

Bars Over 50

Sorelle

Downtown Peninsula · italian, southern italian, pasta, pizza

Bars Over 50

The Obstinate Daughter

Sullivan's Island · italian, seafood, pizza, lowcountry, southern, pasta, raw bar

Over 50

Vern's

Cannonborough-Elliotborough · $$$ · new american, pasta

Over 50

Wild Common

Cannonborough-Elliotborough · $$$ · new american, contemporary

Over 50

Xiao Bao Biscuit

Cannonborough-Elliotborough · $$$ · asian, chinese, thai, vietnamese

Over 50

Who is actually visible for this

Ranked on how much of each venue is machine-readable right now: address, hours, structured data, a menu a crawler can read, and whether their own robots.txt lets AI crawlers in. This is a measurement, not an endorsement, and nobody can buy a position on it.

  1. Lewis Barbecue 94% readable
  2. Lowland 94% readable
  3. The Establishment 94% readable
  4. Sorelle 88% readable
  5. Chubby Fish 82% readable

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Should you be on this list?

If your kitchen belongs in in the michelin guide and we do not have you filed that way, that is a discovery gap on your side and a data gap on ours. Both are fixable.

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