Beaufort, SC
 

Find myself in Beaufort next weekend. Where to stay? Where to eat? Help, please.

Lucky you, it is a great little town.

Eat:
Breakwater
Wren's
Blackstone's (breakfast)
Plum's
Common Grounds (coffee shop)
Barbara Jeans (crabcakes)


Stay:
Old Point Inn (love the location)
Rhett House


Eat as much fresh shrimp as you can. It is fantastic.

Good idea. Shrimp is fixin' to go out of season so get it while you can.

DRJ: As a Beoufortonian [?] who picked up your post too late provide my particular biases, I jwould be very interested in what you thought of your weekend. Many thanks,

Larry Weber

Larry, I will be going back to Beaufort and would love to hear your recommendations.

cncfibg:

Beaufort has a number of very good restaurants.

Breakfast: Blackstones for full breakfast or Palm and Moon for very good bages.

For lunch my favorite is Plums. Downtown on Bay Street. Been there over 20 years. Great soups, sandwiches and salads. Also good are Wrens and Luthers, both in the downtown area.

In the evening, my favorites are Breakwater and Emily's. Both have great bars and good food. Breakwater in a kind of "hip" place with twists on southern favorites. Emilly's is something of and institution, been around for 20 years or so. Beautiful 1880's bar, wide range of small plates. Breakwater's crowd is a bit more of the "cool" crowd while Emily's is more of the "long time locals" crowd. Probably the most impressive ambience is at Saltus, a seafood oriented place fronting on hte park and river. In many ways it reminds of traditional New York restaurants. A bit pricey. For traditional southern fried seafood, my favorite is Dockside in Port Royal which adjoins Beaufort on the south. Seafood platters, shrimp, etc either fried or broiled. Been around for about 20 years. A bit closer to downtown but also offering "fried" is Groupers, just across the bridge on Lady's Isand. Good alternative if looking for seafood at lunch.

As to where to stay, I can give you limpressions but not experience. For B&B's, I'd suggest the Rhett House, Cuthberts, or the Beaufort Inn. All top drawer. Anohter alternative in the dwontown area is the City Loft a recently updated motel that loks very good. About a mile from downtown, along Hwy 21, are new Hilton, Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn. In same area 5-6 other older motels. A friend recently stayed at the Quality in for $49 and said it was super.

Thoings to do: Walk the "Old Point" residential area at the end of Bay Street. Beaufort was of the few towns Sherman didn't burn so the magnificient old homes remain. A must do. Visit St Helena Church. Dating to the early 1700's, its cemetary includes British graves from the Revolutionary War. Take a buggy ride thru the historic area or you are a history buff take Jon Sharpe's walking tour of the area. Try the vistor's center in the old Arsenal dating from 1812.

Enjoy!

thanks, Larry. I look forward to trying some of your suggestions on my next visit. I am lucky to have a friend with a house on the Point and I do love walking that area. cheers.