Hilton Head restaurant delisheeyo reopens after a car crashes into it
Local vegetarian restaurant Delisheeyo has reopened, two days after a car drove into the restaurant.
The restaurant was closed for repairs Sunday and Monday. Deputies have arrested a 20-year-old Beaufort man in connection with the crash and charged him with driving under the influence.
Restaurant owners Blake and Maddie Wearren were cleaning up the site Sunday morning when a fire broke out in their long-term rental property on Marshland Road.
Manager Lauren Madden, who was helping the Wearrens clean up that morning along with one other co-worker, said she was on her way home when her co-worker called her to “turn around now.”
She headed to the Wearren’s home and saw it ablaze. “It was devastating,” she said.
No one hurt in the house fire
The Wearrens had brought their eight-month-old baby with them to the restaurant that morning. No one was home at the time of the fire. The couple’s two dogs and one cat were rescued by neighbors.
Madden called the incident “divine timing.”
If the suspect hadn’t hit delisheeyo, she said, the Wearrens “would have never been up here cleaning, and they would have all been home when it happened.”
The fire is believed to have been electrical in origin, Madden told The Packet. One possible cause may have been the Wearren’s Christmas tree, she said.
Online fundraiser for delisheeyo
Blake Wearren bought delisheeyo from its founder in 2014. Since then, Blake and Maddie Wearren have become “a big part of the community,” Madden said, giving money to people in need, donating to causes and allowing people to host events at the restaurants.
An online fundraiser for the couple had raised over $53,000 as of Tuesday.
In a statement posted on the couple’s GoFundMe campaign, Blake Wearren said the response has been “unbelievable.” After the fundraiser met its initial goal of $50,000 within 24 hours, the Wearrens decided to increase it to $75,000.
“I’ve always said that a perk of running delisheeyo is the caliber of human that it attracts. Some businesses may be too big to fail, but I think I may own a place that is too loved to fail,” Wearren said in the statement.
How to donate to the delisheeyo GoFundMe
Click here to donate to the Wearren’s GoFundMe.
This story was originally published December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM.
