Our taste-and-tell guide to some of the latest food-and-beverage openings in Charleston
Dinner and a movie just got fancier. You might not expect to find a towering, glass-enclosed wine cellar a few steps from Mount Pleasant Towne Centre’s Regal Cinemas, but Savi boasts arguably the most comprehensive Italian wine selection off the peninsula. The food is no slouch either and focuses on Italy’s central and Mediterranean flavors. Get the cheesy meatballs bathed in spicy pomodoro or the white clam pizza speckled with garlic confit, pancetta, and Calabrian chili. Are these earth-shatteringly new takes? No, but who wants to make eggplant parmesan when it can arrive to you bubbling hot, in a room furnished with cool Amalfi blues and mid-century Sputnik chandeliers? While you’re at it, treat yourself to the Super Tuscans wine flight (a trio of rare delights). Happy hour specials such as the daily spritz ($6) might even tempt you to become a regular. savicucina.com
