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Sunday Family Style Supper

Pull up a chair. Fill your plate. Again and again. Make new friends. Bring old friends. Mangiare! "Go on a Sunday afternoon and you will be rewarded with chance to eat the "family meal" ($34), more food than you ever stuffed down at Grandma's, basically half the menu splayed out before your party, big platters of sliced hanger steak and mashed potatoes spiked with olive oil and little mushrooms seared and then soaked in a sweet and sour marinade." - Charleston City Paper

Trattoria Lucca, Luna Rossa

“…Vedrinski also sees Lucca as place in which he can celebrate the
olive oil of Lucca, Italy (a city in Western Tuscany) — the olive oil he
consider the best in the world.” – Meaghan Strickland, Charleston City Paper

Lowcountry Rising

“Last fall, he opened Trattoria Lucca, Charleston’s answer to a casual Mario Batali place, on an unlikely residential corner away from the tourist traps, and the natives came running.” – Christian L. Wright, Gourmet Magazine, May 2009

Best New Restaurant: Trattoria Lucca

“Was there any doubt that Ken Vedrinski’s amazing little trattoria in the ‘hood would win? We didn’t think so. The food is astounding, affordable, and…” – Charleston City Paper

Best Cheese Plate: Trattoria Lucca

“Ken Vedrinski doesn’t just fix a cheese plate — you know the kind where some chef plops down three or four meager slices on a cold plate and charges you eight bucks for the favor — this man composes cheese plates. He loads them up with…” – Jeff Allen, Charleston City Paper

Chef Ken Vedrinski Interprets His Italian Roots at Charleston’s Trattoria Lucca

Cauliflower Custard? “The Warm Cauliflower Sformatino with a soft organic egg was our first appetizer. It was so sensual that it was almost downright embarrassing to eat in public.” – Terri Evans, LikeTheDew.com

A crazy busy day in the life of Chef Ken Vedrinski

“It’s a life of early mornings and late nights, non-stop business deals and the occasional cheap thrill, but it’s a life devoted to passion — to the evolution of culinary genius…” – Alison Sher, Charleston City Paper

Good as Grandma’s: Finding comfort within the wolf’s den at Trattoria Lucca

“Like most things honestly Italian, the simplicity and purity of the flavors sing through. It’s the freshness of the fish and caring hand of a chef who takes delivery himself in the little alley beside the kitchen.” – Jeff Allen, Charleston City Paper