39 Rue De Jean - Charleston

This has become a mediocre restaurant. Flies buzzing around the table, inattentive service, and poorly executed food. 30 years ago this was a shining star on the Charleston food scene. Today it is a has-been. There are countless outstanding restaurants in CHZ these days at the same price point from Sorelle to SNOB, I encourage you to select one of these passionate restaurants.

The food and service were very disappointing. We had been going there for 20 years, but no more! The wait staff is all new and poorly trained or naturally not of a “service mentality”. As the meal began, the waiter spilled an entire glass of water on me and without even apologizing, just said “well I guess dessert is on me” and continued pouring water. No visit from the manager or other apology. Then the food was poor the mussels were very small and tough. The white wine was room temperature and basically we could not leave fast enough. Sorry to see an old standard go. Very disappointed.

We really enjoyed our dining experience with the exception of the decision to put our party of five at a table that fit four. We asked for a table change and were told they were very busy. We made our reservation a month in advance! Next time I would book a table for six. The food was very delicious and the service was exceptional. We'll be back if we have a smaller or larger party. The same size table set a party of two next to us!

Great food and wine felt like our waitress Autum was very good , did not have a long wait for anything It was my birthday and we were assigned a table for 4 by the back near the kitchen , I asked if I could please be moved to a booth ..At 73 it was so nice to get that special treatment of kindness to be moved to an ideal spot. Then I got an amazing yummy dessert for free!! Great birthday experience .

The cocktails are not tasty at all. We didn't even drink them. We ordered mussels, they were brought half-raw, we told the staff about it, they didn't make a new portion of mussels, they just cooked the old ones a little bit more.