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MagazineBig Bamboo Cafe at Coligny is built on a 1944 South Pacific bar story

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Big Bamboo Cafe, upstairs and oceanside in Coligny Plaza, takes its look from the story of a bamboo bar a fighter pilot opened in the Pacific in 1944.

Photo: Big Bamboo Cafe

A red and white striped mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows and a candy cane, on a red plate with iced star cookies and a striped napkin.

Christmas and Thanksgiving desserts for guests, from Black Forest cheesecake to eggnog soft serve

The thatched-roof daiquiri bar at Frosty Frog Cafe, with a Frosty Frog Cafe sign on the counter and white chairs in front.

Frosty Frog Cafe has blended frozen daiquiris at Coligny for more than 25 years

Charcoal-gray soft serve swirled onto a waffle cone in front of a Ninja soft serve machine.

Ice cream machine recipes for the Ninja CREAMi, Scoop & Swirl, Cuisinart, KitchenAid bowl and Breville Smart Scoop

Booths with blue seating and a foosball table along a long room at Local Legend Brewing Company, with a red air hockey table in the foreground.

Local Legend Brewing Company turned Hilton Head’s old Grayco building into a brewery

Tan Adirondack chairs around a tall blue sculpture on a lawn at Ma Daisy's Porch, with the metal-roofed building behind.

Ma Daisy’s Porch in Bluffton grew up around a 1945 deer tongue warehouse

A shopper reaches for broccoli from a refrigerated produce case stocked with greens, celery and red and green peppers, with chalkboard price signs.

Stono Market and Tomato Shed Cafe on Johns Island is the Ambrose family’s farm market

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The Broken Leash at dusk, with string lights hung through live oaks over a fenced turf yard, Adirondack chairs and green umbrellas, and people at the covered bar on the left.

The Broken Leash is a North Charleston dog park with a bar

A golfer walks across a putting green in white OluKai Manele golf shoes with green laces and tan leather tabs.

Holiday gifts for golfers from Lowcountry shops and courses, 2026

Two paper plates on a wooden table hold sliced brisket, pulled pork, ribs, sausage, collard greens, macaroni and cheese and a pecan tart, beside a Holy Smokes lanyard and bowls of beans and beet salad.

Holy Smokes BBQ Festival 2026: the lineup, tickets and parking at Riverfront Park in North Charleston

A woman in a white cap and sun hoodie sits on a cooler aboard a blue Live Watersports catamaran board with a Suzuki outboard on the stern, holding up a redfish on wide shallow water under a cloudy sky.

Outdoors, Shopping

Micro Skiffs for Christmas 2026: Live, BOTE, Crescent, Kaku and Hoodoo Prices, Motors and Dealers

Four skiers in winter jackets sit in wooden chairs around a stone fire pit in the snow at dusk, holding glasses of beer, with lit ski slopes and lodge buildings behind them.

North Carolina ski weekends for 2026‑27: Hatley Pointe, Beech Mountain, Appalachian Ski Mtn. and Christmas at Biltmore

Strings of white lights hang like curtains from the branches of live oaks at night, and visitors walk along the path beneath them.

Nights of a Thousand Candles at Brookgreen Gardens, 2026: dates, tickets and the drive from Charleston

Two small boys sit on adults' shoulders at night and watch a glowing orange seahorse lantern pass, with blue-lit bird and turtle lanterns moving behind it through the crowd.

Hilton Head Island Lantern Parade 2026: route, parking and lantern workshops

A rendering of a green beside a pond, with young golfers on the putting surface and a dark barn-style learning center under tall pines behind.

First Tee’s Kids-Only Golf Course in West Ashley, Where Adults Play as Guests

A Thanksgiving table on a porch with a roast turkey, collards, macaroni and cheese in a cast-iron dish, red rice, a custard pie, oysters on ice and glasses of iced tea, with the marsh and live oaks behind.

A Lowcountry Thanksgiving menu: she-crab soup, red rice, collards and chess pie, with a timeline for the day

A tidal creek winds through golden cordgrass at sunset, a white egret standing in the still water and a hammock of moss-hung live oaks and palmettos dark against an amber sky.

Outdoors, Travel

November Days Out in the Lowcountry: Birds, Empty Beaches, Live Oaks and High-Tide Kayaking

Reception tables set in a brick-walled parlor at Surcee's, with flowers arranged over the fireplace and a sweetheart table in front of it.

Surcee’s, a Second-Floor Wedding Venue on Upper King Street in Charleston

A wet chocolate Boykin spaniel trotting along the water's edge on a wide, empty barrier-island beach at sunrise, its owner walking behind with a coiled leash beside the dunes.

Outdoors, Travel

Dog-Friendly Lowcountry: Beaches, Patios, Dog Parks and Trails

A cast net opening in the air over a tidal river, thrown from the bow of a small aluminium boat beside a row of white bait poles with red bands, golden marsh grass on the far bank in low afternoon light.

Fall fishing: redfish, trout, shrimp baiting and where to launch

A dozen raw oysters on the half shell around two cups of cocktail sauce on a tray of crushed ice at Amen Street Fish & Raw Bar in Charleston.

Lowcountry Oyster Season: Raw Bars, Roasts and What Oysters Cost