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Cru Cafe

18 Pinckney St. (Anson St.) Send to Phone
Charleston, SC 29401
843-534-2434 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
crucafe.com
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This downtown Charleston home-turned-restaurant turns out a consistently impressive lunch and dinner.

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Cru Cafe Restaurant Review

: Chef-owner John Zucker’s Cru Café is a food lover’s anchor on the edge of Charleston’s market area, where things can be hit or miss. The lunch menu focuses on salads and sandwiches. Among the former is a Chinese chicken salad, a refreshing blend of julienned napa cabbage, carrots and daikon with a zingy ginger dressing. Caesar salads come with a choice of toppings including plum duck. Dinner keeps the lunch menu, but adds a variety of entrées. The steaks are consistently good---particularly the flavorful, tender Wagyu sirloin with smoked tomato caramel and Gorgonzola mousse. The warm, flourless chocolate torte has led the dessert list for quite a while now.

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Average rating    2
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Disappointing
by ocergm on Tue Dec 29, 2009 1:22 pm
 
I really wanted to like this quaint little converted house just off the square in downtown Charleston. It was recommended to me and my wife by my soon to be daughter-in-law. We arranged to meet there on a not too busy Tuesday for lunch. My wife and I got there a few minutes early and were seated at a corner table. It was not busy. My daughter-in-law texted us saying they were running 15 minutes late. We informed our server and ordered drinks and an appetizer while we waited. The manager however decided that since our guests were running late we would have to move to another table because he needed to turn "our" table in an hour or less. So we moved our drinks to another table 8 feet away. The food was also a major disappointment. Our green fried tomatoes were totally devoid of taste. My wife's ham salad special was coated with so much mayo it was totally unappealing.
 
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