Welcome to the North Myrtle Beach and North Strand on-line dining guide, a directory of restaurants and restaurant information for the city of North Myrtle Beach and North Strand. Our dining guide includes all the restaurants in North Myrtle Beach and North Strand complete with maps, online menus, ratings, and reviews. Whether you’re looking for take-out, delivery, a good place to take the family or a nice place to impress your date in a romantic setting, our dining guide provides all the information you need. The variety of dining experiences in this area reflects the fact that not all people have the same interests and lifestyles. Our dining is as diverse as our population and visitors. The North Myrtle Beach and North Strand restaurants present a blend of cuisines from many countries and regions. North Myrtle Beach and the North Strand retains your grandfather’s home town ‘mom and pop’restaurants while also hosting major national chains -  both providing a wide range of dinning opportunities.A great variety of dining experiences, created by the variety of sights, smells, sounds, tastes and social atmosphere can be found in this community. Our collection of restaurant experiences include the term "American cooking" to loosely define a collection of traditional dishes that have gained popularity across the USA. Certain dishes like roast beef, fried chicken, grilled steak, stuffed turkey, meatloaf, baked potato, yams, corn on the cob, potato salad, apple pie, clam chowder, hamburgers, hotdogs and hot wings would normally be included on most lists of American cooking. But it also includes New England regional favorites like Brunswick stew, Yankee pot roast, Boston baked beans and New England Clam Chowder. Visit one of our Italian restaurants and inhale the sweetness of roasted garlic, the bite of onion, the acidity of fresh Roma tomatoes, and the warmth of melting cheese. Step into a restaurant that cooks fresh bread and pastries onsite and bask in the aroma of yeast blended with the smells of newly brewed gourmet coffee. The tang of curry, cardamom, and coriander welcomes guests entering a Thai or Indian restaurant and sets their appetite for something hot and spicy. Fresh ginger, soy, scallions, seasame oil, lemon, plum and horseradish aromas are likely to greet the guest at a Chinese restaurant. Be prepared for your hunger to ignite when you step into a barbeque place or steak house and the air is heavy with the fragrance of smoke and spices. After great appetizers, as the wait staff arrives at your table the scents and the sounds of a sizzling steak, pork loin or rack of lamb join to stimulate your appetite. 
Visitors and residents selections range from ‘all you can eat’ buffet style menus to fine dining with tuxedoed wait staff, and white table cloths. In the North Myrtle Beach and North Strand, many restaurants offer high end gourmet selections and a feeling of being invited, catered to and a relaxed atmosphere where you are encouraged to linger over your meal and interact with others at your table. Want a great wine list? Many impressive lists are found in the high end restaurants along with knowledgeable staff that can advise what wine would taste best with what entree. They can explain why a particular wine’s flavor, body, and taste would compliment and enhance any selection. 
Many offer outdoor seating as weather permits. Some offer sidewalk gardens and indoor floral accents with local works of art and upscale décor.Others offer an open kitchen plan. What is occurring in the cooking area enhances the visual component of the dining experience. A flash of a blue crackling flame marks the moment when white wine, extra virgin olive oil and garlic met in a hot pan to seer what soon would be on the guests' tables. Menus that reflect international ingredients and foods of various cultures, nations and ethnic groups as well as traditional southern and coastal seafood are available that provides a diversity of dining experience in a real and memorable way. In combination with a great dining experience, many restaurants offer breathtaking views of the beach, Atlantic Ocean shoreline or the Intracoastal Waterway. Others offer a chance to experience times past in dinning areas located in the warmth of a well restored historical buildings  dating more than a century.If music adds to your dining experience, variety again awaits. Piano bars, Caribbean steel drum music, county music, rock and roll and torch singers all can be found in the restaurant community. At some places, live music spills out from an Irish singer in the bar area into the restaurant to surround a crowd sipping Irish whiskey and beer while enjoying casual or fine dining.  Famous in this area is Calabash seafood - a traditional way of cooking seafood that starts with fresh seafood, then lightly battered (the true taste of the seafood comes through), deep fried in peanut oil and served with mouth-watering hushpuppies. Calabash seafood platters are huge, many offering combinations of Calabash-style fish, shrimp, oysters, crab and scallops.Two other things characterize Calabash seafood restaurants - almost all offer affordable prices and a casual, friendly atmosphere and in many you can watch the fishing fleet come in and deliver the seafood directly to the restaurants. Watching the boats unload assures a high level of confidence that the seafood is fresh. Get sand in your toes at beachside cafes where the sound of the ocean, music, dancing, great food, and surf views all combine to provide the guest a memorable experience.  In a hurry, but still want great food? Terrific pizza, hamburgers, sandwich shops, subs, falling-apart pork shoulder, spice-rubbed baby backs barbeque, Chinese or Mexican food all can be found in this guide. Curbside take-out or eat-in is available at many restaurants. |
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