Chef Sean Brock opening second Husk restaurant in SC

An award-winning Charleston restaurant has chosen Greenville for its third location.

Husk Restaurant, which opened in Charleston in 2010 and in Nashville in 2013, will open in Greenville at 722 S. Main St. in the West End district in the fall, according to Kelly Fordham, a spokesperson for the Neighborhood Dining Group. Neighborhood Dining Group operates both Husk locations, as well as McCrady’s, in Charleston, Minero in Charleston and Atlanta and Chicago’s Steak and Seafood in Atlanta.

Husk has won national acclaim for the restaurant’s approach to Southern cuisine and its steadfast adherence to using local ingredients. Chef and partner Sean Brock, who has helped lead the restaurant’s approach to food has famously said, “if it doesn’t come from the South, it’s not coming through the door.”

In 2011, Bon Appetit magazine named Husk Best New Restaurant in America, and in 2010, Brock won the James Bear Award for “Best Chef Southeast.”

In a 2011 interview with The Greenville News before his appearance at the city’s Euphoria festival, Brock discussed his fascination with heirloom varieties, his passion for seed saving and his role as researcher and champion of Southern food.

“I know the food I want to be cooking when I’m 65, but that takes a lot of learning and a lot of knowledge and a lot of answers and a lot of questions and a lot of failures, and a lot of successes,” Brock said then. “You can’t just wake up and cook this food that I have in my head. It takes a lifetime.”

This story was originally published April 24, 2016 at 10:27 AM with the headline "Chef Sean Brock opening second Husk restaurant in SC."