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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
Comments: Bexley's makes almost everything from scratch, with the exception of mayonnaise and ketchup. Their seasoning blends, salad dressings and vinaigrettes are made from scratch.
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
Comments: All fish is locally caught and never frozen. Most of their fruits, melons, vegetables and micro greens and locally sourced farm to table.
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
Not Sure
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.
Not Sure
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).
Yes
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.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
Comments: They do not offer sourdough bread, but serve Japanese milk bread made from scratch in house.
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
No
Comments: They serve local beer, wine, sweet or unsweetened iced tea and some bottled soda.
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
Yes
Comments: Some condiments are fermented. Their hot sauces are fermented in house as well as their kimchi. They make almost all of their condiments, but most aren't lacto-fermented.
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
100 W Richardson Ave suite a
Summerville, SC
exley's is an excellent and delicious place to eat. Nearly everything is made from scratch except for mayonnaise and ketchup. They do their best to source as much as they can from local farms as possible. All fish served is locally caught and never frozen. The seasoning blends, salad dressings, and vinaigrettes are made in house. Although they don't serve sourdough bread, they have Japanese milk bread made from scratch at the restaurant. Some condiments are fermented. They ferment their hot sauces in house and the kimchi is fermented too.