Food & Wine Magazine recently unveiled their 2011 picks for “America’s Best Bed & Breakfasts,” and the Wentworth Mansion® in Charleston made the list. “America's best B&Bs are beautiful houses with modern amenities and fantastic, often homegrown food,” writes Food & Wine staffer Alessandra Bulow. “(The Wentworth Mansion’s) 21 rooms have modern amenities, like wireless Internet service, plus antique details such as hand-carved marble fireplaces, intricate woodwork and Tiffany stained glass windows. Chef Marc Collins updates Southern dishes for dinner at restaurant Circa 1886, housed in the former carriage house. He also oversees breakfast, which might include sautéed shrimp and organic Carolina grits or rice-flour pancakes with maple syrup and homemade rabbit sausage.”

Built in 1886 and designed in the Second Empire style as an opulent private residence for wealthy cotton merchant Francis Silas Rodgers, the Wentworth Mansion is one of the world's finest and most unique inns. The Mansion also has a spa facility on-site providing facials, massages and aroma therapy treatments. Offering Southern charm and professional service, the Mansion is unsurpassed in Historic Charleston and is the city's only AAA Five Diamond rated property.