Weekend List: 3 affordable winter whites, camellias at Brookgreen, upcoming events

2.16.24 grand strand weekend list

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Camellias are in bloom 🌺

The camellias are in bloom at Brookgreen! Don’t miss the Art Deco exhibit in the Rosen Galleries - and pick up an Art Deco scavenger hunt of sculptures in the gardens!

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📆 GRAND STRAND WEEKEND EVENTS

Friday, February 16

• Cabaret at Wheelwright Auditorium at Coastal Carolina University

• Try the new beer at New South Brewing: Touch of Gray IPA!

Saturday, February 17

• Tribute to Jimmy Buffet featuring Chris Sacks Band at Local on the Water

• Cabaret (continued) at Wheelwright Auditorium at Coastal Carolina University

Sunday, February 18

• World Famous Collard Green Cookoff at Uncle Tito’s in Murrells Inlet

• Jo Dee Messina at Alabama Theater

• Cabaret (final day) at Wheelwright Auditorium at Coastal Carolina University

Wine Dinners

Make your reservations now! Wine dinners sell out.

• Thoroughbreds Guest Appreciation Month until the end of February features a $60 3-course menu

• Caymus Wine Dinner at Filets Waterfront on Feb. 18

• Root Wine Dinner on Feb. 28

Save the Date

• 4th Annual Marshwalk Restaurant Week from Feb. 19th - 23rd

• Gladys Knight at The Carolina Opry on Feb. 24

• 10th Annual Taste of the Marshwalk on Feb. 24 & 25

• Homemade Pasta Cooking Workshop at Butter + Whisk on Feb. 23

• 11th Annual Helicopter Easter Egg Drop and Egg Hunt at Thompson Farm on March 16

• Waccamaw Sportsman’s Expo in Conway on March 22 - 23 (this event was so cool last year!)

• Seafood Risotto Cooking Workshop on March 22 at Butter + Whisk (this one is not yet sold out!)

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3 Affordable Winter Whites

add these to your Target shopping cart 🥂

Rodney Strong Chardonnay White Wine + with chicken pot pie (Lowe’s Foods + Fresh Market + Costco have excellent pre-made chicken pot pies!)

Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc White Wine + a light winter salad like fig / squash / kale / walnut salad

Butter Chardonnay + a jazzy playlist and grilled pork chops

🥂cheers y’all!