Quick Details
Guest
$ 149
Private Tour
up to 16 guests
$ 2640
Pick the Ingredients. Explore Charleston. Then See What the Chef Creates.
Charleston has no shortage of great restaurants.
But this isn’t another restaurant reservation. Or a static food tour.
The Charleston Farm-to-Table Experience puts you inside the creative process—starting with fresh Lowcountry ingredients and ending with a chef-created meal inspired by the ingredients you and your fellow guests select that day.
There is no preset menu.
There is no way to know exactly what Chef Mike will create.
And that’s exactly the point.
Your experience begins at The Veggie Bin, a beloved Charleston neighborhood market filled with seasonal produce, fresh herbs and local ingredients. Each guest chooses one ingredient that catches their eye.
Those ingredients are handed over to Chef Mike Watson, Executive Chef of Republic Hospitality Group.
Then you leave him to work his magic.
While the Chef Cooks, Charleston Tells Its Story
With your ingredients in Chef Mike’s hands, you’ll head out with a licensed Charleston guide for an approximately one-hour walk through Cannonborough-Elliottborough.
This is Charleston beyond the postcard—the neighborhoods, people, and stories that helped shape the city’s culture and its food.
Along the way, you’ll explore approximately one mile at a comfortable pace, hear stories from Charleston’s past, and pick up dessert for the final course of your experience.
Meanwhile, Chef Mike is doing something you couldn’t order from a menu: building your meal from the ingredients your group chose just hours earlier.
Then Comes the Reveal
Return to the restaurant and take your seat.
What arrives next didn’t exist when your afternoon began.
Chef Mike transforms your group’s collection of fresh ingredients into a three-course culinary experience, combining Lowcountry traditions with his own modern Southern approach.
No preset menu. No two experiences are ever exactly alike.
Throughout your meal, Chef Mike will share insights into his creative process, explaining how he selected each course, the reasoning behind his decisions, and the technique used to blend these distinct components into a cohesive dining experience.
Dessert completes the experience, and optional curated cocktails and premium spirit pairings are available for guests who want to take the meal one step further.
“The meal itself was more than worth the price of admission.”
— Farm-to-Table guest, TripAdvisor
Watch the Farm-to-Table Experience in Action
You pick it. We explore it. Chef Mike creates it.
More Than a Meal. More Than a Food Tour.
A great dinner gives you something delicious to eat.
This experience gives you the story behind it.
Your Farm-to-Table Experience includes:
- Fresh ingredient selection at The Veggie Bin
- A licensed Charleston guide
- An approximately one-hour history walk-through of Cannonborough-Elliottborough
- A chef-created three-course meal
- Dessert selected along the walking route
- Personal interaction with Chef Mike
- A menu inspired by your group’s selections that exists only for that day’s guests
If Charleston is on your itinerary because you love food, this is the experience that takes you deeper than any regular restaurant reservation.
Don’t just make another reservation. Become part of the meal.
Meet Chef Mike Watson
Chef Mike Watson is a Charleston culinary leader and Executive Chef of Republic Hospitality Group.
He began cooking at just 14 years old and later trained under a James Beard Award-winning chef. Today, he oversees culinary programs across five Republic Hospitality Group restaurant concepts.
His relationships with Lowcountry farmers and purveyors, combined with his modern approach to Southern cooking, make him uniquely suited to the challenge at the heart of this experience:
Take a collection of ingredients chosen by strangers—and turn them into a meal they’ll remember.
So Many Charleston Restaurants. So Little Time.
You can make another dinner reservation.
Or you can spend an afternoon choosing fresh ingredients, exploring one of Charleston’s historic neighborhoods, and returning to discover what an epic Charleston chef created just for you.
Make your Charleston food experience a story worth bringing home.