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Myrtle Beach Dining > Choosing a Restaurant
Our guide will help you choose the perfect restaurants for your vacation!
The thought of picking a place to eat in Myrtle Beach can sometimes be overwhelming. With over 1,800 restaurants on the Grand Strand alone, how does one choose the perfect Myrtle Beach restaurant?
First, let's tackle breakfast; the first meal of the day, and usually the easiest to figure out. Myrtle Beach breakfast is an entirely different ballgame. If you are a pancake lover, you are in luck, as there are more pancake houses in Myrtle Beach, per capita, than anywhere else in the U.S. Every corner seems to host a new and different pancake house. They are everywhere! This does not make deciding on breakfast any easier. I suppose you could ask one of the locals where their favorite place is, or you could stroll around town and look for the restaurant with the longest line, but who wants to wait in line for breakfast? I say, pick a restaurant near one end of the strip, and each morning just work your way down to the next breakfast joint. You will probably have to extend your vacation in order to sample the wares from all of the restaurants, but, in the end, it will be worth it to be able to say you've tried them all and found the best!
Moving on to lunch and dinner, things get a bit more complicated. There are so many restaurants, so many different types of food, where does one begin? I would suggest that you first decide on the style of food you want. Myrtle Beach seafood is known to be some of the freshest and finest seafood around, and bound to be one of the most popular dining choices in Myrtle Beach. While grilled, broiled, steamed, and boiled seafood can be found, it is the Calabash-style, sometimes called Murrells Inlet-style, seafood that reigns supreme in Myrtle Beach. Calabash-style cooking refers to fresh seafood, lightly battered and fried, and it is always served in generous portions. In fact, most of the Calabash restaurants in Myrtle Beach are all you can eat buffets.
In the mood for something more intimate and romantic? Try one of Myrtle Beach's waterside dining restaurants. While you can find several Grand Strand beachfront restaurants, I recommend heading south to the calmer waters of Murrells Inlet. There you can dine on decks directly over the water, or stay inside where you can still enjoy the beautiful sunsets and views of the water. Most of the Murrells Inlet restaurants have a wide variety of menu options, so choose your restaurant based on the view.
What Myrtle Beach dining experience could be complete without sampling the traditional low-country fare? Low country cooking, described as everyday Southern-style cooking, blends local Carolina ingredients with African, Native American, French and English styles of cooking. Shrimp and grits, fried green tomatoes, collard greens, and cornbread, are the basics of low country cooking. The restaurants that specialize in this style of cuisine aren't fancy, but the food is so good that it often crosses over onto the menus of Myrtle Beach's fine dining restaurants.
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