Marina Variety Store Restaurant is a waterside diner on Lockwood Drive that has been serving Southern-style breakfast and seafood-focused lunch and dinner for the past 55 years. Boasting beautiful views of the Ashley River, the no-fuss, no-frills nautically inspired establishment is warm and welcoming with honey-hued wooden booths and nautical paraphernalia tacked to the walls. The breakfast menu is simple and straightforward with the standard two-eggs breakfast with toast and grits, eggs and bacon, hearty stacks of pancakes, and specialties such as fried green tomatoes and shrimp with creamy grits, marinated alligator and grilled shrimp, and double buttermilk biscuits and gravy.

Marina Variety Store Restaurant, Marina Variety Store Res, Phone: 843-723-6325,

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