11 editor picks in Charleston.
Charleston street food runs on food trucks and counter kitchens that move between the peninsula, the islands and the suburbs. Roti Rolls works the streets as a mobile truck out of Upper King, while Cachita's Kitchen and Mi Lindo Oaxaca Taqueria set up in Mount Pleasant and Maine Line Seafood serves on Johns Island. Downtown adds 167 Raw Oyster Bar on King Street.
11 street food places in Charleston we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Charleston · Street Food across every city.
Try Roti flatbread wraps with Southern and Caribbean fillings
Roti Rolls rolled out in 2010 as Charleston's first food truck, wrapping smoked local pork, kimchi and Creole mac in roti; track it on Street Food Finder.
Try Smash burger on a potato bun
Smash City Burgers in Charleston took over the old Fair Deal Grocery on Cooper Street in July 2024.
Try Fried fish sandwich, fried shrimp platter
Dave's Carry-Out in Charleston runs a counter-only soul food and seafood window on Morris Street.
Try Al pastor tacos, Shrimp Cachitaco, Cuban sandwich
Cachita's Kitchen in Mount Pleasant parks on Chuck Dawley Blvd from a colorful Mexican-Cuban truck.
Try New England-style lobster roll on a butter-toasted bun
&Lobster in Charleston runs a roving New England lobster roll truck.
Try Gluten-free fried chicken sandwich
Street Bird Westside in Charleston runs a Southern-Mexican gluten-free fried chicken sandwich window from a President Street lot.
Try Maine lobster roll, fish sandwich
Maine Line Seafood in Johns Island parks at Rosebank Farms with lobster flown in weekly by the owners' Harpswell, Maine fishing family.
Try Enmoladas, al pastor tacos, mole
Mi Lindo Oaxaca Taqueria in Mount Pleasant runs a colorful truck out of Wando Crossing serving chef Enmanuel Aragon Cortes's mother's Oaxacan recipes.
Try Shark steak, sauteed crab and shrimp over grits, fried whiting
Hannibal's Kitchen on the Charleston Eastside has been feeding soul food since 1985.
Try Lobster roll, oysters on the half shell, tuna burger
167 Raw on King Street runs a counter raw bar with New England DNA.
Try Roti flatbread wraps under $12
Roti Rolls, Charleston's longest-running food truck (since 2010), rolls kimchi, Creole mac and smoked local pork into roti bread for a quick, cheap lunch.
