Peninsula Grill Restaurant Review
Planters Inn
112 N. Market St. (Meeting St.) 
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Charleston, SC 29401
843-723-0700 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
Peninsula Grill Restaurant is one of our 2012
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Cuisine
Open
Dinner nightlyFeatures
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Outdoor dining
- Valet parking
- Business casual
Wine
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 Adjacent to the famed Charleston Market, this luxurious and spirited classic shows its pedigree in silver velvet walls and a clubby atmosphere. The Champagne Bar menu features raw oysters and other cold seafood dishes. Hot appetizers such as the lobster and crab cake duo arrange two meaty cakes beside a small arugula salad moistened with a mustard vinaigrette. Wild mushroom grits with low country oyster stew is a rich, smoky embodiment of how Southern ingredients meet high-end cooking. Besides steaks and fresh fish, benne seed-crusted rack of New Zealand lamb and basted Muscovy duck breast are both rich main dishes with well-matched accompaniments. Desserts are an exercise in excess and a particularly joyous component of the dining experience. Chef Robert Carter’s grandmother’s coconut cake, a Southern classic, is a six-layer confection exploding with coconut sweetness and buttery richness. A silky half-sphere of banana cream outlined with Tía Maria-glazed banana bread, the banana “panna cotta” pudding comes with caramel-coated banana slices and banana-shaped crispy cookie, all under a crown of spun sugar. The wine list's 200 choices emphasize American and, secondarily, French wines, with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux and the Rhône. Twenty half-bottles and a limited but solid by-the-glass selection respect the solo diner. Some vintage depth may be found in California Cabernet Sauvignon, Bordeaux and Rhônes. In the sommelier role, Jacob A. Fuhr keeps a watchful eye on this inventory.
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