Restaurants in Beaufort, SC

No frills-breakfast institution, popular with locals since opening in 1991. Shrimp is big here: shrimp and grits or shrimp omelets for breakfast, and flavorful homemade soups with shrimp-salad sandwich for lunch, but there are plenty of other options, including pancakes, French…

Appealing restaurant and tapas bar, with exceptional seafood: bake grouper, crab-cake dinners, and the seafood platters are all outstanding. However, the artfully prepared tapas plates can also make a meal here—order several to share. My favorites include the tangy garlic shrimp, the…

Justly popular gastropub in the heart of the Historic District, featuring a changing menu based on farm-to-table produce and European comfort foods, washed down with innovative cocktails and craft beers. Since opening in 2012, this has fast become the foodie destination in…

Beaufort’s trifecta of gorgeous historic inns is rounded out by this romantic, award-winning hotel, a Greek Revival masterpiece built by Thomas Smith Rhett in the 1820s (the cottage dates from 1864, and once served as a store for freed slaves). Though the interior retains much of the…