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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine:
American
Price: $$
Rating Criteria
1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: Some of the farms Basic Kitchen sources from include: Brasstown Beef (beef), Hunter Cattle (beef), Wishbone Heritage Farms (chicken and eggs), Raven Farms, Kindlewood Farm, Bradford Family Farms, and Vertical Roots. Their fish is caught locally from Charleston. They also serve Carolina gold rice
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Yes
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
No
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Not Sure
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
No
Comments: If you are trying to avoid seed oils, ask your server which dishes are not made with them. You can request certain dishes to be cooked in butter or olive oil and if you are looking to have a salad, ask for olive oil and vinegar (their salad dressings are made with canola oil)
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
Yes
Comments: Genuine sourdough bread is served, but only for brunch on the weekends.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
Yes
Comments: Kombucha is served from One Love
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
No
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
Rating Created by:
Sarah Ruiz
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Location & Contact
82 Wentworth Street
Charleston, SC
Basic Kitchen is a wonderful restaurant to go to for local, simple food. They serve wild caught seafood, pasture raised eggs and sustainably raised meat. This restaurant tries to serve as much food locally sourced as possible.