Fleet Landing Restaurant

Specialties

Fleet Landing restaurant features Chef Drew Hedlund’s fusion of classic and contemporary southern fare using fresh coastal seafood and seasonal produce indigenous to the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

Specialties include Charleston «Shrimp and Grits,» Carolina Lump Crab Cakes, Crispy Whole Southern Flounder, and Lowcountry Seafood Pasta, although the menu offers a choice for everyone, land lovers included. The restaurant features a full bar, indoor and outdoor dining, and accepts all four major credit cards. Reservations are highly recommended, especially for nights and weekends.

Fleet Landing is a participant in the Sustainable Seafood Intiative & the Certified SC Grown program.

Complimentary parking is available in our lot, but as we have more parking than any other restaurant downtown, it is well frequented. There is a parking garage across the street.

Our kitchen is closed between the hours of 4 and 5 for switchover to the dinner menu, but our bar is still open.

History

Established in 2004.

Prior to 1940, the Fleet Landing location was the home of the Cooper River Ferry that shuttled folks across the river to Mt. Pleasant and the neighboring barrier islands. That year, a hurricane struck Charleston and badly damaged the Cooper River Ferry building. The U.S. Navy landed in 1942 and tore down the ferry building and constructed the current Fleet Landing building. The Navy utilized the building for off-​loading sailors (some to the brig), supplies, general maintenance and re-​supplying of ships. Around 1970, the Navy retired the use of the Fleet Landing building for good. The building stood vacant for years, until 2003, when the current owners, Weesie & Tradd Newton, acquired the building from the South Carolina Ports Authority. The Newtons completed extensive renovations and now offer you downtown Charleston’s most unique waterfront dining experience.

Meet the Business Owner

Tradd N.

Business Owner

A native of Charleston, Tradd entered the family grocery business, Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company, in 1991. In 1998, the Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company purchased McCrady’s restaurant. The four-​story brick building, located in downtown Charleston, had been the site of several celebrated but financially challenged restaurant ventures since the 1980s. The turn-​around project was assigned to Tradd. With McCrady’s, Tradd made an indelible mark on the Charleston restaurant landscape – bringing the failing historic establishment out of obscurity and into the national limelight.

With the success of his initial foray into the hospitality industry, Newton established himself as a young restaurateur to watch. Fleet Landing Restaurant marks the first solo project for Tradd, in what he anticipates being a series of exciting restaurant projects in the years to come.