Dining

  • Where to get local seafood

    Many who visit the beach will be looking to find some great seafood but don’t want something that was shipped frozen from 200 miles away. Fortunately, Hilton Head has some great choices where you can find fish, shrimp and clams caught within the island’s waters.  We did an informal survey of local residents to find restaurants that serve at least some local seafood, and this article presents our findings. First, realize that it is easiest to get local seafood if you order what is in season.  Oysters, for instance, are readily available in months that end in ‘r’, so if you order them in the summer they were shipped in. …

  • Hilton Head Island Must-Try Restaurants: Skull Creek Dockside

    Hilton Head Island Must-Try Restaurants: Skull Creek Dockside It’s not an enormous secret that trying a new scrumptious entree (or two. Or three, in our case.) at a brand new restaurant in a new place is one of the best parts of a vacation. As long as we have been coming back to the Island, over 20-some-odd years later, we are still excited and finding new favorite places to eat all over Hilton Head. Most recently, we added the ever-increasingly-popular Skull Creek Boathouse as one of our new staples and must-do restaurants for every trip. It was just that good. And to our delight, just (literally) next door, we seemed…