Now on Resy: Costa, Élevé, Grand Bohemian Wine Bar, and More Local Favorites

You’ll be a regular before you know it at this downtown ode to super-fresh fish and shellfish, where chef Vinson Petrillo creates imaginative takes on seafood pasta and other coastal Italian comfort food, tweaked with global flavors.

This stylish dining room at the Grand Bohemian Hotel lives up to its name (it’s French for “elevated”) with its shimmering chandeliers, gleaming hardwood tabletops, walls hung with sensuous paintings, and above all, its perfectly crafted France-meets-Charleston menu.

This clubby-looking retreat in the Grand Bohemian Hotel is a wine-lover’s paradise, not just for its list of about 50 good wines, from Napa Valley Chardonnay to Argentinian Cabernet Franc, but for the fact that it offers small tasting portions of them all for a few bucks, so you can roam the wine world while sampling offerings from the small-plates menu.

Like its popular Seabrook Island sibling, the downtown location of this easy-going café is a must for casual breakfasts and lunches (think crêpes, quiches, baguette sandwiches), but nighttime brings out a seductive menu of French-inspired tapas and classics like coq au vin and beef bourguignon.

Already famous for its locations around the Pacific Northwest, The Matador is now creating a buzz on Meeting Street with its wide-ranging Mexican menu based on all-natural ingredients (look for seasonal specials like hot honey fried chicken tacos) and its exemplary agave-rich cocktail program.

The nautical decor helps set the scene at this jaunty seafood-forward Mount Pleasant establishment, whose chef and co-owner, Brian Appelt, is well-known locally for his Sunrise Bistro mini-chain. Among the don’t-miss specialties: she crab soup and lobster and grits.

This popular barrier island delight does a great job as a low-key, all-the-essentials breakfast-and-lunch stop, but savvy diners know that in the evenings, it turns into one of the Charleston area’s best French restaurants, acing everything from onion soup to boeuf bourguignon.

The room is elegant, with high coffered ceilings and rich white napery; the steaks are all USDA prime; the sides push the envelope (mashed sweet potatoes with Boursin cheese, anyone?); and to drink, an enophile’s dream of a wine list and the coolest (literally) cocktails in town: 16 different “nitrotinis,” chilled with liquid nitrogen.

Brunch with a Southern accent (daily, from early morning to mid-afternoon) is the thing at this easy-to-wake-up-to suburban Downtown Charleston outpost of the popular South-wide Ruby chain. Breakfast tacos, shrimp & grits, eight different Benedicts, and more will keep brunch-lovers coming back.

This sleek family-owned establishment has been feeding Charleston for more than 20 years with an array of something-for-everybody Japanese dishes (there’s a long, lively sushi bar), augmented by familiar Chinese fare and a touch here and there of Vietnamese and Thai cuisine.

Get ready for Indian food with Southern flair from chef Viraj Borkar (the ex-culinary director of the critically-acclaimed Rasika in D.C.) and cocktail guru Jeremy Buck. Think Bombay-style shrimp and grits and Masala Mules with your choice of spirit.

Groundbreaking modern Southern chef Sean Brock may have stepped away from Husk a few years back, but this Charleston original continues to flourish with Raymond England in the kitchen, translating the very best of local and seasonal ingredients into updated takes on the South’s great culinary repertoire.

Local-born chef Patrick Owens (of Langdon’s, Opal, and Wood & Grain) continues to expand his empire of culinary delights with this Mount Pleasant tribute to tacos and Latin American-style seafood. The serious assortment of Tequilas and mezcals is well worth exploring.

Lovers of fish and shellfish will want to set sail for this innovative seafood-first establishment. Enjoy everything from oysters to whole local fish with spicy greens, in a brick-arched main floor dining room beneath a vivid glass mosaic ceiling piece, or in the light-washed upstairs hideaway.

Because there’s excellent pub food — think pulled-pork nachos and a shrimp po’boy — to be found at this cozy Meeting Street bar and restaurant opened by brothers Brendan and Brian Kirkpatrick, who also run a well-known establishment of the same name on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.