Eating on the SC Coast

Here’s where and what we ate on our trip to the Isle of Palms, South Carolina:

Morgan Creek Grill, Isle of Palms

• Fried platter (w/ slaw & fries): shrimp & oysters
• Fried platter (w/ slaw & fries): shrimp, oysters, scallops & flounder

Shem Creek Bar & Grill, Mount Pleasant

• hushpuppies
• stone crab claws
• Big Guy gumbo 
• Seafood Wando
• Bloody Marys

Melvin’s Bar-B-Que, Mount Pleasant

• Big Joe pork sandwich w/ onion rings
• Little Joe pork sandwich w/ onion rings

Seel’s on Sullivan’s Island, Sullivan’s Island

• crab dip
• grouper sandwich (w/ fries & hush puppies
• grouper basket (w/slaw & hush puppies 
• Bloody Marys

See Wee Restaurant, Awendaw

• hush puppies
• she crab soup (w/ sherry on the side)
• shrimp & scallop platter See Wee style (w/ slaw, fried okra & collard greens)
• See Wee platter of fried shrimp, scallops, oysters & flounder (w/ slaw, onion rings & ?)
• coconut cake and carrot cake (which we brought home to eat later)

The stars of the eats were the VERY fresh stone crab claws & Bloody Marys at Shem Creek and the fried oysters at Morgan Creek.  The Big Guy gumbo and Seafood Wando made good leftovers back at our villa at Wild Dunes.  And oddly enough, a nice house salad with hot bacon vinaigrette dressing for Donna and some fried fish for Edward at a Fatz Cafe on the way home!  We’ll be trying the Fatz here in Athens now.  I’ve come to the conclusion that South Carolinians (at least the ones who eat out and/or tourists) must like their food on the extremely rich side and that we like our onion rings lightly battered instead of the thick-thick-thick way we kept getting.

So we didn’t eat at any fancy spots this trip (and didn’t order any wine anywhere!), but we got our fill of fried foods for awhile.  I wish we could get really good seafood anytime we wanted instead of having to *flounder* ourselves on our rare trips to the beach.