Cafe Eugenia in Freshfields Village near Kiawah and Seabrook Islands
Cafe Eugenia is a Mediterranean-inspired menu with a local flavor. They offer salads, sandwiches, soups, and charcuterie boards as well as offer grab-and-go items.
Cafe Eugenia’s Mediterranean-style menu is influenced by founder Bea Shaffer Young’s Lebanese grandmother’s cooking and by Charleston’s culinary community.
Cafe Eugenia is located in Freshfields’ Village near Kiawah. It has large picture windows and is decorated in a fresh French style with white subway tile, light hardwood floors, and bistro tables. On another note, check out the beautifully decorated restrooms, which include a gallery wall of beautiful art.
Order at the front and grab a table inside near the window or under one of the patio umbrellas outside. Cafe Eugenia has now expanded to include ‘the sunroom’ - an additional spacious room next door, along with a beautiful new bar area. It’s also used for event space.
Cafe Eugenia starts serving breakfast at 8 and offer a menu of breakfast sandwiches and frittatas, along with a good coffee menu. My favorite is their avocado toast, loaded with avocado and topped with pickled onions on nutty bread. The serving is really enough for two, even though I ate all of mine. Their light and fluffy homemade biscuits are made with goat cheese and served with butter and strawberry basil jam.
For lunch, I like Cafe Eugenia's ‘make a plate,’ where you choose any three items from their rotating selection of salads and dips. It’s served with a choice of crackers, pita chips, or bread. I, of course, chose the homemade bread. Try the curry chicken salad made with mango chutney and herbs, or the kale salad made with carrots, dried cherries, toasted pistachios, and a creamy tahini dressing. I also like the white bean and edamame salad with marinated artichokes, capers, feta, pine nuts, and an herb vinaigrette.
They also offer a nice selection of takeaway items, including quiches, lasagne, and a chicken pot pie.
Cafe Eugenia has monthly classes on a variety of subjects, including a charcuterie board-making class, a Mahjong series, a handmade biscuit-making class, a cookie-decorating class, and other cooking classes.
I'm up for one of Cafe Eugenia's cooking classes next!
