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Restaurant Reviews

Myrtle Beach restaurants offer something for every palette. With well over 1,500 eateries of all kinds, sadly, very few are top-shelf, and, sadly, the vast majority of them are best forgotten. Hey, this is the Redneck Rivera, so what can you expect.

The following Myrtle Beach Restaurant Reviews are distilled from the good, the bad and the ugly dining experiences of the officers, directors and associates of the Myrtle Beach Golf Association, supplemented by feedback from our golfers. While the primary focus is on the quality of the cuisine, other important factors that also influence the ratings are friendliness, service, presentation, facilities, cleanliness, value and clientele.

It is important to note that every establishment is visited anonymously, and the reviewers pay all of their own checks (gratuities too), and are not reimbursed one penny. Needless to say, they are quite picky about where they are going to spend their hard earned money, and rather irate when they feel that they have been taken advantage of.

Please note that we do not review chain restaurants, except in cases where we find a particular location to be either exceptional or exceptionally awful. We also don’t review Calabash style (that’s an oxymoron that means that everything is cooked in the same grease that the joint has been using since they opened for business 20-years ago, so that everything tastes exactly the same) buffets, buffet establishments or worst of all, those insipid hangouts of the gastronomically retarded, trailer park misfits that drink white Zinfandel, those habitats of the unwashed those god-awful fondue joints. Why you ask, simply because we think its beyond moronic to go out to diner, and have to wait on ourselves, much less being expected to tip some clown, or clownette, who didn’t do a damn thing except snort “Hi guys” (even to women) and then stand around and whine with their fellow cretins.

As a critical aspect of the Myrtle Beach Restaurant Reviews you will see a bar with three Advisory Colors… means, “check it out,” means “think-consider” and means “forget about it!”

Please be advised that, unlike the MBGA golf course ratings, rankings and reviews, the MBGA Restaurant Reviews, once completed, rarely change – especially the low-rates eateries. The reasons for this are quite simple:

  • We can only eat in just so many establishments,
  • Like most people we like to frequent places we enjoy, so when we return to good places that limits our time to be able to check-out any new places, and
  • We’re not going to go back to some joint that we hated, and throw good money and valuable time after bad.

Don’t Be Fooled! There is a local endorsement known as The Best of the Beach, that area businesses, especially area restaurants, tout in their advertising as a local “vote of confidence” for their business. Please be advised that in most cases a Best of the Beach rating is a farce because the local businesses “fix the results” by getting all of their staffers, suppliers, family members, neighbors, customers, buddies and pets to send in ballots for them. We know one character that sent in 50 ballots for himself in one week. As with all reviews, the MBGA Restaurant Reviews are strictly the reviewer’s opinions, and should always be considered subjective!

Whereas the Myrtle Beach Golf Association is only concerned with “current conditions,” it is imperative that any submissions be dated, detailed and sent to Restaurants@mbga.com immediately after your dining experience or your issue of concern occurs. Please include a telephone number in order to facilitate prompt follow ups.

While the Myrtle Beach Golf Association takes great pains to make sure that all restaurant reviews and assessments are as current and as accurate as humanly possible, all of the ratings, reviews and assessments found here are strictly the opinions of the Myrtle Beach Golf Association and are by their very nature subjective and should always be considered as such.

Simply “click” on a restaurant’s name below and you will be quickly taken to that restaurant’s MBGA review!

= A Great Restaurant to Check Out

= Think and Consider This One

= Forget About It!


Reviewed Restaurants

Aspen Grille
Yellow Light

Benny Rappa’s Trattoria
Green Light

Billy the Kid’s Seafood
Green Light

Bimini’s Oyster Bar & Seafood Grill
Green Light

Bistro 217
Green Light

Black Thai Restaurant
Green Light

Bummz Beach Cafe
Green Light

Cagney’s Old Place Restaurant
Green Light

Carolina Roadhouse
Yellow Light

Carrabba’s Italian Grill
Green Light

Cedar Hill Landing Restaurant & Oyster Roast
Green Light

Cheeseburger in Paradise
Green Light

Chestnut Hill Restaurant
Green Light

Chuck’s Steak House
Green Light

City Bar
Green Light

Collector’s Cafe
Green Light

Dead Dog Saloon
Green Light

Divine Fish House
Red Light

Duffy Street Seafood Shack
Yellow Light

E Noodles & Company
Green Light

Emi – a Fusion Bistro & Sushi Bar
Green Light

Finn McCool’s Irish Pub & Eatery
Green Light

Flamingo Grill
Green Light

Flo’s Place
Green Light

Frank’s Restaurant & Bar
Green Light

Greg Norman’s Australian Grille
Yellow Light

Hamburger Joe’s
Green Light

Islamorada Fish Company
Red Light

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville
Red Light

Kentucky Fried Chicken
Red Light

Key West Grill
Yellow Light

King Kong Sushi
Red Light

Liberty Tap Room & Grill
Green Light

Library
Green Light

Margarita’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant
Green Light

Martini’s Continental Dining & Piano Bar
Green Light

Melting Pot
Yellow Light

Miyabi Kyoto Japanese Steak House
Green Light

Nakato Japanese Steak House Seafood & Sushi Bar
Yellow Light

New York Prime
Yellow Light

Office Italian Pub
Green Light

Phillips Seafood
Red Light

River City Cafe
Yellow Light

Rockefeller’s Raw Bar
Green Light

Rossi’s Italian Restaurant
Green Light

Sea Blue Tapas Bar
Green Light

Sea Captain’s House
Green Light

Soho
Yellow Light

Spring House Family Restaurants
Red Light

Sugami Sushi Bar & Grill
Green Light

Sugar Shack Jamaican Restaurant
Green Light

Thoroughbreds Restaurant
Yellow Light

Umberto’s
Green Light

Umi Pacific Grille
Red Light

Villa Mare
Green Light

Villa Tuscanna
Green Light