Hooks Calabash Seafood Buffet

Hooks Calabash Seafood Buffet is a seafood restaurant in Myrtle Beach, SC. It serves an all-you-can-eat Calabash-style buffet with more than 120 items daily, built around a crab bar stacked with snow crab legs, blue crabs in season, stone crab claws, crawfish, steamed shrimp and mussels, with no upcharge and no limit. The fry line turns out shrimp, flounder, scallops, oysters and catfish in a cornmeal-flour dredge, fried to order and refilled through the night. A carving station offers slow-roasted prime rib, oysters Rockefeller and honey-glazed ham, and there are raw oysters on the half shell, peel-and-eat shrimp, a salad bar, soup pots and an in-house bakery with banana pudding, peach cobbler, red velvet cake and soft-serve. For guests who do not eat seafood, the buffet includes BBQ baby back ribs, fried chicken, pepper steak, chicken tenders, mac and cheese, collard greens, corn pudding and sweet potato casserole. The restaurant is family-owned and has fed the Grand Strand for more than 25 years, with three generations of the same family working the dining room. It holds a rating of 4.70 from the customers who have reviewed it.

The kitchen fries in small batches so the flounder that reaches the plate hit the oil shortly before, and whenever the boats and the season allow, shrimp, flounder, blue crab and oysters are sourced from the Carolinas. Weekend service adds hand-carved prime rib and honey-glazed ham at the carving station, and seafood boils with crawfish, snow crab, shrimp, corn, andouille and red potatoes are offered nightly. Pricing is one flat rate with kids' pricing, no per-item upcharges on crab legs and refills on soft drinks, and the restaurant hosts church groups, bachelorette parties, youth baseball teams and other large parties, with call-ahead recommended for parties of six or more.

Hooks Calabash Seafood Buffet sits on N Kings Highway in the heart of Myrtle Beach, within walking distance of Broadway at the Beach and a short drive from the boardwalk.

The restaurant is known for a positive rating from the customers who have reviewed it, and for a buffet that keeps snow crab legs included every day alongside its Calabash fried seafood. For Myrtle Beach vacationers and locals alike, that combination of a nightly crab bar, a carving station and a bakery counter is what has kept the doors on Kings Highway open for more than a quarter century.