Taste-Of-ALL was held this past weekend, and it's always a nice taste of the upcoming FestivALL.

My friend Meghan and I headed out to get samples from area restaurants. New this year was Chow Thai, so I was excited to try their "larb" which is a sort of meat salad with spices in a lettuce wrap.

I also tried the "Korean meatball" from Ichiban, which was a departure from my typical order of Almost Heaven maki here.

Big Joe's was serving up "Buffalo Pork Belly Chicharron" which you can see above.

And then I had to try a little bit of everything at Recovery Sports Grill: Buffalo Chicken Wonton, Crispy Artichoke with Lemon Garlic Aioli and a Maryland Crabcake.

For dessert, I got a butter pecan ice cream cone from Ellen's Homemade Ice Cream.

And, we ended our visit by watching a pepperoni roll walk - Charleston's take on a cakewalk. Prior to this event, I had no idea what a cakewalk was. But I can tell you, I now prefer a pepperoni roll walk.

Winners: Brick Salt Bar + Kitchen took home top honors, as did chef Brentford Young from Four Points during the Chef's Challenge cookoff.

I've been to Screech Owl Brewing many moons ago.

Since my last visit, they expanded to include a restaurant.

That restaurant is called Spent Grain Cafe.

It's such a neat concept that they're using spent grain from brewing for their pizzas and sandwiches - and pepperoni rolls!

Of course, their main star here is the beer.

So, we ordered a sampler to try a bit of everything.

I couldn't get enough of the Wild & Wonderful Strawberry Ale.

We tried a pizza - and it's neat that the crust is almost a little sweet.

And the pepperoni roll!

We ended up getting them to go, but they were fresh and warm.

This is definitely one of the more unique pepperoni rolls I've had!

Have you been here yet?

I've, of course, had Clutch Wings before.

But, they recently made the move to High Street, so I thought I'd stop by to check it out.

One cool thing about this is that they now have dine-in space.


I ordered six boneless sweet honey wings.

And a Kool-aid!

The wings are more like chicken tenders that have been sliced up.

What's your favorite sauce?

At the Handcrafted Cooperative in Morgantown, I saw Saute by Rene set up!

I've been wanting to try her food for some time, so I was excited to check out her booth.

I went for a pork empanada! Have you tried these empanadas?

While in Morgantown at the Handcrafted Cooperative, I stopped by Honeycomb Baking.

I had followed them on Instagram for quite some time, so I made a beeline over to their booth.

They have a ton of cute cookies - like the bears ones above.

And you could mix and match different kinds of fun sugar cookies.

I ended up snagging a cute pumpkin cookie that had sparkles on it.

And this cute little chocolate cake pop reminiscent of Starbucks frappuccinos.

What's your favorite?