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On Southern Living’s advice….

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After our walking tour of Charleston we realized we’d skipped lunch and were starving. As it was too early for dinner, I did a little phone research and found a seafood place highly recommended by Southern Living magazine. They said the food was superb and to ignore the fact that the restaurant itself was a “dive”.

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Clearly their idea of “dive” and mine differ greatly because while admittedly this place wasn’t the Ritz Carlton, I’ve been in a helluva lot worse.

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Naturally my husband wanted to sit at the bar.

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I’ve never had a strawberry daiquiri served in a mason jar before, but maybe that’s part of their dive-y charm.

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The hushpuppies? Meh.

Not great, not awful.

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My she crab soup?

Mama mia! It may not have photographed well but it was thickest, richest, creamiest crab filled thing I’ve ever had.

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To be honest I was pretty full after just that, but I was on vacation in the low country and couldn’t pass up an opportunity for shrimp and grits.

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I couldn’t…. but I should have, because it was awful. Yes, the shrimp were large and flavorful but the rest was simply a big bowl of slop. Too much pasty gravy, too soupy a consistency… blech.

I ate the shrimp and left the rest.

The husband? He had some type of inferior fish which was dry as a bone.

So much for taking Southern Living’s advice.

Aside from the soup the only thing that made me smile at this place was the poster in the rest room.

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39 thoughts on “On Southern Living’s advice….”

      1. True that. I ate a clam in Portland that damn near killed me, not to mention the guy in the next room over who got to listen to me puking for the best part of an hour. Strangely enough I woke up fresh as a daisy and ready for breakfast. Blueberry French toast, mighty fine.

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  5. On behalf of everyone who cares a lick about southern food, I would like to apologize for those sorry ass grits. I like my grits kind of stiff so I don’t usually have them with shrimp. I have seen enough of them in places all over the southeast to know that they shouldn’t be gray water gray with foreign matter floating in them. If possible, that blue bowl makes them even worse. Glad you made it back.

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  8. The dragonfly stat is wrong… they live 7-56 days (per google). I know I’ve had some around for 10+ days.

    Sad that most of the food sucked!

    Even though grits and polenta are practically the same thing, I love polenta but have yet to find grits that weren’t gross.

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  11. Maybe they paid for the recommendation? Whichever part of that meal was grits I don’t know but good God, it looks like someone threw up on the plate! I hope she crab doesn’t mean female. They need to keep the species going. We’re not allowed to take them here.Not that I’ve ever gone crabbing.

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  12. Yeah, that plate of shrimp and grits seemed disappointing. Sorry just getting to comment on your post. I’m in DC (again) and I haven’t been able to read my daily River posts and respond in a timely fashion, lol.

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  13. Dang. Apparently, I know nothing!

    The shrimp and grits look horrid! How could they do that? It’s sacrilegious!

    I wonder how old the recommendation from Southern Living was? You know, under bad management or chefs, placing can go downhill quickly.

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