The Waterfront - EDISTO ISLAND

I have been coming to edisto for several years, and every year I try to cook home with eating a few times. this is the first year I feel as if waterfront really let us down. the crab soup was thick and paralyzed, instead of creamy, the popcorn garnels was clearly oversaled, the mixed drinks seemed weaker than in the past, and even the pasta dish that had ordered a member of our group lacked at least one of the listed ingredients. if they stick to fried seafood, they have a good meal, but the restaurant seems to have lost a few steps in the last few years. the pommes stay great and the little children loved the grilled cheese.

The food is good but they also have a lock on the local market. Our family has been coming for years and always look forward to getting takeout from here. This year there was a $12 service fee for takeout and then it was $60 for a single pound of snow crab legs!!! The seafood combo was more fairly priced.

We ate here for our last night in Edisto. We got the nicest waitress we've had for a long time. She was attentive and very funny. We had fried seafood mostly as a group, and everyone left full. Food was good, atmosphere was relaxing. We will definitely come back on our next trip!

We arrived at 7, few cars in the parking lot (always makes me wonder). We got a table right away as the dining room was essentially empty. The decor is sweet like a cinder block place you would find in very rural SC. The lighting was horrible with the fans spinning creating the headache inducing motion picture effect. We sat in a booth and those folks before us for at least a couple of years stowed food morsels at the end of the cushion and up on the frame of the bench for others to observe and enjoy. The small little bugs were enjoying it. There was enough to go around. I would assume they just wipe down the seats and what flies out from the rag remains there as a treat for the next guest I almost said nope..leaving now, but remained. The waitstaff was terrific and kept our drinks full. Now I have avoided this place for many years as a poor experience long ago kept me from trying it again, but with Mckonkeys failing to impress this year we chose this. I had the crab cake stuffed flounder with lemon sauce had it been described as it was served I would not have ordered it.... 1st off I will eat my hat if that was flounder...it was tilapia wasnt it? hmm? yeah it was. To find out I had to sweep off the full cup of lemon sauce that covered the entire mass of mush underneath. The brown oatmeal like consistency of the crab cake was underwhelming, but the flakiness of the tilapia was as expected unlike the firmness found in fresh flounder of which did not reside on my plate. The abundance of the lemon sauce explosion on my plate was my first clue. Collard greens could have used another 2-3 hours of cook time...they were still crunchy and any southern boy knows greens are done when they are done and no sooner. The grits were more like corn pudding, but they did say they were on the creamy side....like add sugar and you have dessert right there with your entree. I have been rough with this place and unapologetically so once again a disappointment and I will likely never darken their doors again. Oh and there is a gift shop inside the restaurant at the entrance....Its like Disney in there. smh

Food was excellent. We have the corn fritters and calamari for appetizers. Then I had Shrimp and grits, hubby had the crab cakes along the our daughter and son in law had the smothered chicken. Everything was amazing and the service was just as equal. Make sure you give this place a try but go at 5 and there was no wait!