Weekend List: Chilylimpics, Dracula at Long Bay Theatre, and how to pick a wine at restaurant 🍷
Your Grand Strand List for October 31, 2024
HAPPPPPPPPY HALLOWEEN, Grand Stranders! 🎃
Indulge me and read a few words about creativity and sharing…
The biggest advice about starting projects - a business or a creative pursuit like a YouTube channel or a newsletter tends to be “just start.”
Just start!
Don’t let perfection get in the way of posting.
Create, post, create some more, tweak, fix, find your style, create again, keep posting.
Learn as you go.
You’ll keep getting better.
It’ll never be perfect but no one will see it if you don’t share.
So, here we are with this newsletter that actually has a lot of subscribers (thanks, all 3,000+ of you!!) because I just started writing and posting and sending.
I’ve taken a million photos and videos and have been getting over the perfection analysis paralysis and just posting! on the blog! on the Good Taste Guide YouTube channel!
And today I learned that my 357 Coastal Raw Bar blog post made it into a GROUP CHAT for friends picking a place to meet up.
A group chat!? That’s a big deal. Very proud.
So, thank you for reading and sharing. I love sharing local things to do and supporting cool local businesses and going on foodie adventures and taking photos and creating videos.
This is my creative little hobby and I appreciate you subscribing :)
- Hatton
WINE LIST 411
Why: You get order anxiety looking at a wine list.
Tips: Know the varietal + geographic location of your top favorite wines and choose something similar on the wine list, ask the server for a recommendation (since they have been trained on the wine list), and know if the wine list is a good one - a lower priced wine is going to be excellent!
Check out: 2024 South Carolina Winners of Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards which recognize the best wine lists
Try: 5 Local Restaurants with Killer Wine Lists
ICYMI
School Lunch
What: Hard-to-get-lunch-reservations at HGTC’s Fowler Dining Room
Why: You’re a foodie who loves supporting culinary students and an amazing culinary experience in the middle of the day.
Keep reading: The coolest foodie experience in the Grand Strand: Lunch at HGTC’s Fowler Dining Room
📆 WEEKEND EVENTS
Thursday - Backyard Movie Night at 1229 Shine
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - Dracula A Comedy of Terrors at the Long Bay Theatre (everyone has raved about this!!)
Friday - Christmas Double Author Exclusive Event with Litchfield Books at Pine Lakes
Saturday - Flavors of Fall in North Myrtle Beach
Saturday & Sunday - Grandparent Weekend at Thompson Farm
Sunday - $5 Bloody Mary & Mimosas at Travinia
📆 COMING UP
November Wine Dinner at Nonna’s Italian Kitchen (Nov 4)
Fish Fry Fundraiser supporting the YMCA of Coastal Carolina (Nov 11)
Nights of a Thousand Candles at Brookgreen is mostly sold out. Get tickets now for the few dates available if you want to go!!
TIP / Preview Benefit Night is the BEST night to go - private, food, drinks, and a fundraiser for Brookgreen. It’s not yet sold out!!
Oldie But Goodie
We’ll be bringing back the Wine with Will video series to the Good Taste Guide YouTube Channel this year! Check out this oldie but goodie about Decoy Zinfandel :)
New YouTube Videos
Going for the JUST POST mentality, I’ve been creating videos and actually posting on YouTube. As a creator I’ve decided a few quirky things: I like horizontal video and the creative process of creating pretty photos and videos… Reels aren’t fun to make and you have to pump out daily content which I personally don’t have time for. YouTube has more staying power and is based more on search and following than the trending minute. Here are some recent videos… please like and subscribe and comment and follow!!
Shine On
Watch: New YouTube Video about Shine 1229!
Pawleys Pick
Watch: New YouTube Video about Perrone’s in Pawleys!
📰 about this newsletter: The Grand Strand List by the Good Taste Guide is a newsletter for Grand Strand locals with recommendations for your weekend: events, restaurants, wine, music, & Lowcountry living 🥂Some of our shopping links may earn a commission. Thanks for your support!
🤓 Read on the blog …
Dining Discoveries: local restaurant reviews
See & Do: things to do in + around the Grand Strand
Flights & Bites: travel guides to places like Napa & Sonoma Valleys in California and Dublin, Ireland plus Foodie Weekend Getaway Guides to places you can drive to like Charleston, Columbia, and Hilton Head
Wine Pairings: everyday wines + food recommendations