A few years back, I gave a quick and dirty review of Steamer Seafood Company located in Coligny Plaza on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. At the time I did a quick and dirty review and pretty much summed it up with “While it’s not my number one choice for eating out on the island, if you happen to be in Coligny Plaza and you’re looking for a quick bite to eat and some beer, this might be your place.”
Well, Kim and I decided to check it out two years later while shopping at around lunch time. We walked in and found a good number of people inside trying to beat the heat with some air conditioned lunch. Steamer Seafood Company has, at some point in the last two years, updated their outdoor patio and expanded it. They offer music 7 nights a week and have a decent beer selection but apparently all in bottles, nothing on tap.
Kim and I were dying for some seafood and Steamer Seafood Company boasts that they have a great raw bar and that’s exactly what I was looking for. Kim and I ended up ordering three appetizers including shrimp/crawfish bucket, Oysters Rockabilly, and their Garlic Mussels. While this ended up being an expensive lunch (just under $32), Kim felt that it was so good that we should make this an annual tradition.
The bucket of shrimp and crawfish seriously seemed endless and they were both tasty. While the shrimp was large and the crawfish was plentiful, I would have liked to see a few more shrimp as the crawfish just takes too fucking long to work with. The garlic mussels were our favorite and not only were there a shitload of them, they were tasty as hell covered in plenty of butter and garlic — mmm. The Oysters Rockabilly (their take on Oysters Rockefeller) were good but I let Kim eat the majority of them.
I still stand by my comment that it’s not my favorite place on the island to eat, but it definitely has improved in the last two years and I am willing to up my previous review to a “we’ll be back yearly” rather than “just eat there if you happen to be in the area.”
Address:
Steamer Seafood Company
17 Lagoon Rd
Hilton Head, SC 29928
Phone:
843-785-2070
See all the pictures from Steamer Seafood Company on Flickr here.
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