Élevé is the rooftop restaurant and lounge at the Grand Bohemian Hotel on Wentworth Street, and it's the most stylish of Charleston's rooftop dining rooms - a rooftop garden with inventive coastal cuisine that has a Southern heritage and French culinary techniques underneath it. The room is a rooftop wonderland in the words of Condé Nast: arty, ready to party, and the kind of place where the drinks are accessible with a few peppy inventions in the mix. There's a full restaurant menu, not just a bar menu, so it's a legitimate dinner destination, not just a drink stop, though the happy hour with $2 oysters, $9 specialty cocktails, and $5 draft beer is the easiest way in if you just want the sunset.
The food is good and the atmosphere is memorable, but the price is the thing people argue about - a $20 hamburger shows up in the reviews, and some of the outdoor seating can run hot and direct in the sun. The crowd is the arty, hotel-adjacent kind of person who came for the view and the cocktails and stayed for a second round. It's the pick when you want the most polished rooftop experience in the city, and the skyline and the garden do the rest.