78 N. Market St. in the Historic District Charleston, S.C. 843-853-8270 Lunch and Dinner Sunday-Saturday Website: www.kaminskys.com Map  We eschewed the 11 bar stools and took a table in the dining room that is connected to T-Bonz Steakhouse. Kaminsky’s is part of a cleverly named local chain with names like Rioz Brazilian Steakhouse and Pearlz Oyster Bar. Except for that wedding cake, and an impressive three-layer chocolate cake, they might have called this branch Kaminsky’s Piez. We appreciated the lack of a TV (or televizion) in the bar, which allowed us the quietude appropriate to discussion of our desserts with the proper reverence. The bourbon pecan stood up well, sticking together and not coming across as overly sweet. The coconut was light and refreshing with a thick cream layer. Everything is made on the premises except for the cheesecakes. Fresh crusts served Kaminsky’s well. We lingered over our pie, storing up energy to take a walk through the wonderful selection of sweetgrass baskets and local art that lends the street here a better purpose than it had when it was a slave market. We studied Kaminsky’s décor, which included a 2008 award from City Weekly for best dessert (an honor it has won every year since 1998). John is a former editor of an alternative newsweekly and knows that sometimes those awards can be given out somewhat by rote, but still, Kaminsky’s winning streak is impressive. Kaminsky’s, with local art on the walls, is a comfortable place. It offers a dessert array, sort of like a tasting flight in a wine bar, of five mini swirl desserts called Kamini’s. They look like fun. The bar offers 30 beers, and the blackboard menu includes spirits and hot toddies such as a snow cap, a peppermint patty, a white monk and a hot buttery chocolate. We’ll come back in the winter to try some of those. But on this beautiful spring day, it was the pies we came for and the pies we ate. We can recommend you do the same. |
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