Awards

Open Table 2012 Diners' Choice Award,  February, 2012

 

Charleston.com 2012 Charleston's Top 10 Restaurants,  February, 2012

 

Executive Chef, Steven Lusby, Winner of the Taste: Iron Chef competition!

Our own Steven Lusby was crowned champion in this year's Taste: Iron Chef competition which is part of the Taste of Charleston weekend. The competition features two pairs of chefs in a heated head-to-head battle structured after the popular Food Network program, Iron Chef. Steven and his teammate, Matthew Neissner of Hall's Chophouse, wowed the judges with dishes created from the secret ingredients: Pumpkin and Chocolate. Stop in and join us in congratulating him. Steven, we so proud of you!

 

2011 Talk of the Town Award for Excellence in Customer Satisfaction

 

7 time winner of Charleston's Best She Crab Soup by the readers of the Charleston City Paper

 

Diner's Choice Winner on OpenTable.com: Most Booked Restaurant in South Carolina

 
"Reigning in Charleston today--as it has for over sixteen years is a place renowned in the culinary world for its simplicity and complexity; its grace and casual air; its elegant tables, napery, crystal and decor, coupled with a presentation of food, wine and service so divine as to be, itself, a work of Southern Fiction."
Hospitality Today, November 19, 1998

Readers' Choice Awards Best City Restaurant Southern Living magazine
November 1997, 1998 and 1999

Award of Excellence Wine Spectator magazine
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

Profiles of the restaurant and chefs of 82 Queen - and some of their most innovative recipes - are seen regularly in publications like:
Nation's Restaurant News
Simple Seafood
House Calls Magazine
Discover Charleston
Kiawah Connoisseur

Chef Kish is active in culinary arts field promoting professionalism and achievement. He is chairman of the Charleston, S.C. Chapter of the American Culinary Federation and was honored in 1997 as "Member of the Year" and runner-up for "Chef of the Year." He has been formally recognized many times for culinary achievement during his 17 year tenure at 82 Queen.
Hospitality Today, November, 1997