Toast of Charleston
Shrimp and Grits with Fried Green Tomatoes
Blueberry Pecan Pancakes with Bacon
Eggs, Bacon, Toast, Grits
Biscuit
Apple and Peach Cinnamon Raisin French Toast
Trumpeted by some as a Charleston institution and featuring early opening hours a family breakfast was planned at Toast before heading out to Firefly Distillery and the plantations I can only assume that our experience was an anomaly because from limited parking to condescending service through and including mediocre food and a restroom unfit for a rural gas station I really cannot fathom any degree of praise for the restaurant. Beginning with a server who tried to upsell every dish while downplaying the versions at other neighborhood restaurants to a substantial delay of nearly thirty minutes for dry ‘blueberry’ pancakes with Land-o-Lakes and Mrs. Butterworth’s, undercooked and bready French Toast topped with canned pie filling, and run-of-the-mill grits with anemic shrimp and fairly good fried green tomatoes it was a lone biscuit that proved to be the saving grace of the morning – a biscuit proudly served with “mixed berry” jam in a little packet alongside Land-o-Lakes and a bill that would have felt like a rip off even at 50% off.
