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Southern Living SC's 10 Best Seafood Spots
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Southern Living SC's 10 Best Seafood Spots


Aug 23, 2012, 11:43 AM

http://www.southernliving.com/travel/south-east/south-carolina-seafood-spots-00417000079521/


Sea Shack
Hilton Head Island
The line for the Shack's grilled, fried, or blackened seafood begins long before the 40-seat eatery opens for lunch or dinner. But it's worth the wait for the daily "Blackboard" special that features a choice of perfectly cooked fresh fish, including grouper, flounder, and snapper, served up with two sides such as collards, macaroni and cheese, cheese grits, and green beans.
Order: Hearty appetites should try the Shack Attack ($17), which combines a crab cake, tilapia, shrimp, scallops, and oysters on a giant paper platter. Homemade tartar sauce is the traditional accompaniment, but we think the brandy-infused gator sauce makes an even better platter slather. 6B Executive Park Road; seashackhhi.com or 843/785-2464

Bluffton Family Seafood House
Bluffton
Larry and Tina Toomer figured they wouldn't have to go far to get fresh fish and oysters—the couple also runs the Bluffton Oyster Company—so they opened this full-service restaurant in 2010. The dishes are unpretentious, but because the crabs, mussels, clams, and shrimp come mainly from the nearby May River, they need little in the way of adornment.
Order: Share a bucket of steamed oysters ($20), then dive into a basket of fried shrimp ($14) with a side of stewed tomatoes and rice. 27 Dr. Mellichamp Drive; blufftonoyster.com or 843/757-0380

Whaley's
Edisto Island
Housed in a former gas station that was once the only place to get fresh water or make a phone call for 45 miles, Whaley's still serves as a popular gathering spot. But now locals and visitors come by for platters of fried mahi-mahi bites dipped in house-made Ranch-chipotle sauce, mussels spiked with garlic and white wine, and beers pulled from the original soda cooler.
Order: Topped with a sweet tea-and-lemon glaze and mango chutney, the Firefly Flounder ($22) is a popular, down-to-earth dish with a heavenly twist. 2801 Myrtle Street; whaleyseb.com or 843/869-2161

The Crab Shack
Folly Beach
You know you've finally reached the beach when you find steamed shrimp, crab legs, oysters, and corn on the cob served in tin buckets on a dog-friendly porch. If you're doing Folly for the weekend, come by for the Saturday or Sunday brunch, when the Bloody Mary bar is stocked with pickled okra and the eggs Benedict is made with freshly grilled flounder and a crab cake standing in for the usual Canadian bacon.
Order: The creamy she-crab soup ($5) is thick with sweet crabmeat and made for a good cause. (All proceeds from its sale go to the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston.) 26 Center Street; crabshacks.com or 843/588-3080

Bowens Island Restaurant
Bowens Island
As the winner of an America's Classic award from the James Beard Foundation, Robert Barber knows a thing or two about keeping customers happy at this eatery his family has run for 66 years. First, he sources (very) locally by serving oysters caught just yards from where they're steamed or fried. Enjoy your fresh fare with hush puppies, Frogmore stew, and South Carolina-brewed beers. Second, his restaurant has a waterside deck, so if you come early, you can watch the sun set over the wetlands as the oysters arrive.
Order: The fried creek oysters are terrific, but nobody steams and pit roasts the tasty bivalves like the Barber family ($14 for a tray, $25.50 for all you can eat). 1870 Bowens Island Road; bowensislandrestaurant.com or 843/795-2757

The Wreck of the Richard & Charlene
Mount Pleasant
When Hurricane Hugo blew the Richard & Charlene (a North Atlantic-style trawler) into their dock, Fred and Pat Scott had the wreck removed, and then named their restaurant in Mount Pleasant's Old Village area after it. Although the couple originally offered mainly eggs and grits (at the time, breakfast was all they knew how to make), they soon found their sea legs. Now they serve combo platters overflowing with fried, grilled, or broiled shrimp, scallops, oysters, and fresh fish fillets.
Order: The Wreck's spicy deviled crab (think crab cake with a kick, $18) tastes best sitting on the restaurant's screened porch and watching the fishing boats pass by on Shem Creek. 106 Haddrell Street; thewreckrc.com or 843/884-0052

Seewee Restaurant
Awendaw
It's like Sunday dinner at grandma's every day in this general store-turned-cozy restaurant where rice and gravy, okra soup, and butter beans vie for your attention with just-caught flounder, fish stew, and creek shrimp (the sweet, diminutive cousins of saltwater shrimp). The setting is equally old-school—homemade cakes look out from under glass domes, rustic wooden beams line the ceiling, and silhouettes of Southern scenes rendered in iron by Lowcountry artist Thomas Smoak decorate the walls.
Order: Stone crab claws caught in nearby Bulls Bay ($11 as appetizer, $22 as entrée). 4808 Highway 17 North; 843/928-3609

T.W. Graham & Co.
McClellanville
After graduating from Johnson & Wales University and working as a chef in Florida and California, Pete Kornack moved to the tiny fishing village of McClellanville in 1994. Pete and his wife, Claudia, opened T.W. Graham in 2003. Their shrimp dishes are standouts, but save room for a side of fried green tomatoes and a slice of homemade pie.
Order: A bowl of Claudia's blue crab, shrimp, and corn chowder ($5) is so good that she's been asked to deliver it to the State House in Columbia for special legislative lunches. 810 Pinckney Street; 843/887-4342

Lee's Inlet Kitchen
Murrells Inlet
It's tempting to load up on the hush puppies that arrive hot from the fryer the moment you sit down, but try to hold back. Wait for the seafood platters that will soon arrive groaning with huge portions of fried, broiled, or grilled fish, oysters, fantail shrimp, and deviled crabs. They come accompanied by sides of veggies and potatoes and homemade desserts such as Key lime pie and peach cobbler.
Order: Chef Clay Williams' she-crab soup ($6) has won the Murrells Inlet chowder cook-off competition for the past seven years. 4460 Business 17; leesinletkitchen.com or 843/651-2881

The Original Mr. Fish Restaurant and Seafood Market
Myrtle Beach
Grand Strand seafood lovers cheered three years ago when Ted Hammerman and his daughter, Sheina, saved this landmark restaurant and seafood market. Now fish fans flock to the inviting, art-filled building located in a strip mall for Sheina's spicy gumbo and addictive crab rangoons (cream cheese and crab wrapped in wontons and deep-fried). The eatery also offers creative sushi such as seared tuna with blue cheese, as well as specialty seafood rolls (try the spicy sea scallops) and a variety of gluten-free pizzas.
Order: The fish tacos made with fresh mahi-mahi sautéed with onion and sweet peppers and doused with homemade rémoulade ($10) satisfy. 3401 North Kings Highway; mrfish.com or 843/839-3474.

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Cheddar Bay Biscuits!!!***


Aug 23, 2012, 11:44 AM



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Seewee and the wreck? why not hymans, too?***


Aug 23, 2012, 11:45 AM



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Re: Seewee and the wreck disappoint, but


Aug 23, 2012, 1:35 PM

TW Graham is much better..

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We loved The Wreck


Aug 23, 2012, 1:36 PM

I love me some fried shrimp and oysters.

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Lee's Inlet Kitchen


Aug 23, 2012, 11:46 AM

Boom

Sizzle

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I think you meant...


Aug 23, 2012, 11:56 AM

Coots Inlet Kitchen?



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Re: Southern Living SC's 10 Best Seafood Spots


Aug 23, 2012, 11:47 AM



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Not sure if serious?***


Aug 23, 2012, 12:13 PM



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lol wut***


Aug 23, 2012, 1:38 PM [ in reply to Re: Southern Living SC's 10 Best Seafood Spots ]



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Red Lobster in 10 different cities.


Aug 23, 2012, 1:52 PM [ in reply to Re: Southern Living SC's 10 Best Seafood Spots ]

amyrite?

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Obviously a weak ploy to undermine


Aug 23, 2012, 11:52 AM

Red Lobster. Nobody's falling for that.

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Best seafood place ever was the Edisto Motel Restaurant


Aug 23, 2012, 11:55 AM

in Jacksonboro, SC. I loved that place. It closed years ago. It was run by the Hickman family in Jacksonboro. My family's land is in Jacksonboro and my father's family is from there also. When I was little we used to knock on the back door of the restaurant and get Mike Hickman to get us a room at the motel for the night. I remember the cooks back in the kitchen sitting at huge friers cooking shrimp and oysters. That place smelled awesome. We hunted deer on dog drives that stared at 6am, so we always stayed at the motel and ate supper Friday night at the restaurant.

I remember on Friday nights that place was packed and there was a line that wrapped around the building of people waiting to get in. Sometimes it took more than an hour to get a table. People drove from Charleston all the time to eat there. They would come out and serve you beer while you waited in line, and several people from the hunting club were always there in line too.

Their fried seafood combo was the best I've ever eaten. I've eaten at the original Calabash, Lees Inlet Kitchen, The Trawler, and a number of other places, but none ever beat the Edisto Motel restaurant.

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Re: Southern Living SC's 10 Best Seafood Spots


Aug 23, 2012, 11:57 AM

Russell's seafood about .5 mile from Lee's Inlet kitchen. Hog Snapper (when they have it)= heaven. Also, best she crab soup I have ever eaten.

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agree w/ the hog snapper


Aug 23, 2012, 12:10 PM

Let the waitress talk me into getting the hognose….best food decision ever…

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This list is worthless w/o the Boathouse at Breach Inlet***


Aug 23, 2012, 2:28 PM



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Whaleys might be in the top 10 on Edisto, but not


Aug 23, 2012, 2:44 PM

top 10 in all of dixie.

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#ACCFTS


will never understand the Jounge hate for the Wreck


Aug 23, 2012, 5:50 PM

and Seewee.

no frills dive joints, just enjoy the greasy food that is why you go. you dont go to the esso and expect to be served Stella in a crystal glass, you go there for a cold budweiser/pbr.

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The Wreck in Mt. Pleasant is a dive and not worth it...


Aug 23, 2012, 5:31 PM

Food was good but no credit cards accepted. Cash only. I got into it to it with the crusty old coot that owns the place. What a #######!

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No Long John Silvers or Captain D's....shocking***


Aug 23, 2012, 5:52 PM



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The Wreck, Seewee?


Aug 23, 2012, 10:30 PM

It's BS like this that drove me to Garden and Gun.

http://gardenandgun.com/

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