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Wondering what to eat in Beaufort? Naturally, fresh foods from the sea top the list of everybody's favorites, but where do you start? To learn what is best to eat in Beaufort restaurants, we asked some of the area’s finest chefs what's really cooking. Here are their favorites. Bon appètit!
Odd Debellis at Plums
Best Breakfast
Blackstone’s. “Everything on the menu is good. I especially like the smoked salmon and herbed cream cheese omelet.”
Best Lunch
“The shrimpburger at Ollie’s by the Bay.”
Best Value
Luther’s for dinner. “Steak! The marinated New York strip steak is good.”
Unique Regional Dish
Frogmore stew at Steamer.
Best Kept Secret
The Shrimp Shack. “The shrimpburger again.”
One Night To Dine Out
Emily’s. “I’d order anything on their tapas menu. My favorite is smoked salmon paté.”
Most Delectable Dessert
“The Banana Tiramisu at the Beaufort Inn. Or, their Tropical Fantasy.”
Scott O’hara at Luther
Best Lunch
Ollie’s shrimpburger.
Best Value
Pizza at the Upper Crust.
Best Kept Secret
“Plums’ seafood soup. It’s awesome.”
Unique Regional Dish
Surf and turf at Claude’s.
One Night To Dine Out
“I’d order the prime rib at Whitehall Plantation.”
Most Delectable Dessert
Dockside’s apple pie à la mode.
Chip Ulbrich at Beaufort Inn
Best Wine Selection
“As far as restaurants go, Bistro 205. Sea Island Provisions (a food and wine specialty store) brings in some different wines that you wouldn’t expect, wines you can’t find anywhere else.”
Best Lunch
The Firehouse. The Santa Fe Wrap. “Or jerk pork at the Jamaican Pepper Pot.”
Best Value
Veal picatta at the Old House Smokehouse.
Best Kept Secret
“The meat patties at the Jamaican Pepper Pot. You wouldn’t think to order them, but they’re really good.”
One Night To Dine Out
“Panini’s for anything. For dinner, I’d order the porkette.”
Most Delectable Dessert
“I love ice cream, so I go to Bruster’s all the time.”
Tim Morgan at Emily’s
Best Lunch
Bay Towne Grill. “I go there for a hamburger.”
Best Kept Secret
Cinelli’s. “They have real good food and not a lot of people know about them. I like their lasagna.”
Unique Regional Dish
Fried shrimp at Steamer.
One Night To Dine Out
Dockside. “All their seafood is good. I’d get the seafood platter, ‘dockside dinner’ they call it.”
Most Delectable Dessert
Ice cream at Plums
Gary Lang at Bistro 205
Best Coffee
Firehouse Café. “For their great selection of iced coffees.”
Best Value
“Plums’ nightly specials. There are four or five a night, and they are all good.”
Best Kept Secret
The brochette with goat cheese at the Beaufort Inn.
Best Lunch
Bay Towne Grille. “The Wall Street Special.”
One Night To Dine Out
Beaufort Inn. “I like the rack of lamb and the fillet of beef.”
Will Mclenagan at Back Porch Grille
Best Lunch
Plums’ roast beef sandwich.
Best Value
The Beaufort Inn Grille Room. “Everybody thinks the Beaufort Inn is expensive, but tapas and their ‘Flights of Wine,’ a wine-tasting sampler, served in the Grill, is the best deal in town.”
Unique Regional Dish
Salt Marsh Grille for crab cakes.
One Night To Dine Out
Emily’s for tapas.
Most Delectable Dessert
The Beaufort Inn’s chocolate delirium.
Nick Borreggine at Panini’s
Best Value
Duke’s Barbecue. “That’s where all the truckers stop. I get the pork BBQ sandwich.”
Best Lunch
Bay Street Wine and Provisions for their tomato, mozzarella and basil panini
Best Kept Secret
“Vichyssoise at Bistro 205. And the calzones at Twice-Baked Bread.”
Most Delectable Dessert
Tropical Fantasy at Beaufort Inn.
Chris Alexandre at Salt Marsh Grill
Best Breakfast
Eggs and “good home-made grits” at Blackstone’s.
Best Lunch
Panini’s. Prosciutto and cheese panini.
Unique Regional Dish
“Fried green tomatoes and oysters on the half shell” at Dockside.
Best Wine Selection
Bistro 205. “When you want a hot glass of juice, you go to the Bistro.”
Best Kept Secret
Back Porch Grille. Crab cakes.
Most Delectable Dessert
Plums’ ice cream.
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