Garden & Gun

For Chef Mike Lata, Food Is Good. Really Good

“The house that gnocchi built” sits at Hassell and Meeting streets in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. Chef Mike Lata says he’s heard this nickname for his restaurant FIG a time or two, and it makes him smile.

Southern Living

The 28 Best Things to do in Charleston

Try FIG’s famous Tomato Tarte Tatin.

Wine Enthusiast

Southern Swing: A Wine Lover’s Guide to Charleston

Williams praises perennial favorite FIG for its “imaginative list” and “offbeat varietals and producers like orange wine and Muller-Thurgau.”

Departures

Seafood and Spirits in Charleston

For dinner: Fig, the restaurant equivalent of a warm kiss on a cold night. Surrounded by burnished mirrors and oxblood walls, I enjoyed a tangy chopped cabbage salad laden with pickled shiitake and a too-delicate-for-this-earth scallop dish.

Eater

The Best Restaurants in America

More than half of the restaurants recognized have been here before, and those standard bearers who’ve made it in every time are hereby designated Hall of Famers.

NY Times

A Southern Star Rises in the Lowcountry

There is much to like about Fig, Mike Lata’s pared-down dining room on Meeting Street, Charleston’s main stem.

Post & Courier

AFAR

A Review of FIG

For local, creative food in the Lowcountry, FIG is the model.