Gilligan’s Seafood Restaurant – Summerville

As expected no response from management not ownership… shameful and we did call, sent dm via twitter no responses either has been months

Great food. We love the peel and eat shrimp. Our family recently had dinner and were seated promptly. The crab cakes and the fried green tomatoes were very good. We will be back!

We went to dinner around 7. They weren’t very busy. Our server was nice and knew the menu. I will say that some of the restaurant’s policies are antiquated and have room for improvement. Their combos are very strict and don’t allow for customization. Also to be on Ladson Rd I will say that there prices were on the high side. For our family of 4 our bill was $ 145. Our food was good but there was very little value for the money. At least the food was good, EVERYTIME I go to the Mt. Pleasant location the seafood doesn’t taste fresh and the service is lacking.

I tried to like this place. I have eaten here twice and both times was disappointed. It’s like cheap seafood super deep fried so people like it. I love the hush puppies so I usually fill up on that. Seems to be always teenagers as food servers which is fine except they are not always attentive. I won’t be going here again. Not worth the money.

My husband and I came here on a Saturday night. No wait at about 6:45. The hostess was very friendly and seated us promptly.
Our server Lori was great, friendly and knowledgeable about all the seafood entrees and told us about some specials that evening. She also made recommendations for our dinner and drinks that night. We really appreciate that from a server.
I had the grilled crab cakes with green beans and a cup of the famous «she crab soup». Everything was good, the beans came out not very hot thou, that’s ok. The soup was delicious. Crab cakes could have had more crab and less filler. So just ok on my selection.
My husband had the Low country Stew with sausage, shrimp and cabbage on top of some red rice… WOW! Too die for! Perfectly spiced and it was just the right size portion and lots of sausage and shrimp.
Service is excellent. Restaurant was clean and very appealing. We saw a couple big parties going on and it seemed like everyone was enjoying themselves, so great for groups.
We will visit again. We have lots more exploring to do in Summerville. Overall good restaurant.

Have eaten here several times trying different entrees and have enjoyed all of them. The admirals platter is a large portion of food and always cooked perfectly every time. The peanut butter pie is to die for! So make sure to save room for it.

We loved our visit to Gilligan’s. There shrimp dip appetizer was amazing, as was our shared «low country stir fry.» The table hush puppies are sweet and crispy, excellent. The boys loved their kids meals, chicken and corn dog.
Kitchen was fast, service prompt and polite.
We’ll be back!

Do not eat here! We should have listened to the reviews and fact that the lot is always empty when we drive by. Fried shrimp weren’t fully shelled or cleaned. Nor were the scallops. Flounder was literally black on the underside totally disgusting. Coleslaw tasted off in a rotten way. The only thing safe to eat was the hush puppies. We will definitely never go back and I wouldn’t recommend this place to your worst enemy.

Wee Doggy What A True Culinary Seafood Treat Starting With The Often Taken For Granted Hush Puppies That Were Phenomenally Moist & Sweet to the Most Excellent & Meaty Gator Bites & It Didn’t Even Stop There! WOW Highly Recommend Everyone Who Visits This Area of North Charleston Pay A Visit You Can Thank Me For Intel Later

Had a party of 8 tonight go to Gilligan’s. The food was very good, service was very good. Really enjoyed it. Will go back. The hush puppies were a nice to
uch. The alligator appetizers was fantastic.

I’m not really the type to give bad reviews, but I need to be honest. When you live in a town as close to the beach as Summerville or Ladson, you expect a certain level of quality in a seafood dinner. For the price, I could have done better at home. I got the shrimp, scallops, and oyster trio combination with side salad and mashed potatoes (red skin mixed). It is obvious that all of their seafood is battered with the same batter and fried in the same grease which leaves each individual dish tasting like the next. Everything was very bland and greasy. The mashed potatoes tasted like they had been made with a heavy cream that was a tad past its expiration date and there was also a slight hint of what honestly tasted like dish soap.
What brought us to Gilligans in the first place was the «Family night, kids eat free» sign. We are a family of five. No where did it say on their sign or in the restaurant that the number of kids is limited to the number of adults in attendance. Maybe this is a norm that I am just not familiar with? Being a military family, the spouse is often deployed and I’ve never experienced a limit based on the number of paid adults. I feel this is relevant to add simply because the only people in the facility were families with children. When the server brought me the bill, they had not removed any of my children’s meals and I had to ask about it. He apologized and took it away to fix it. Family night? Place has nothing but families with kids… and he forgot? Ok… everyone makes mistakes. He returned with the check only having removed 2 of my 3 children’s meals. I asked about it and that is when I was told about the one child per paying adult. I did not argue even though I did not see this ‘fine print’ anywhere. I paid, left my survey comments, and chalked it up to a learning experience.
2 adult meals and 1 child’s meal (no appetizers or alcoholic beverages) cost us $ 58.00 and some change before tip. For a bland, greasy, thrown together meal, I would have been better going to Captain D’s for the same quality at a cheaper price.
The environment is also very drab and uninviting. The recessed lighting is the only lighting in the restaurant. However the positive to that is that it suppressed my usual desire and clean up action that generally takes place when my toddler decides that half her meal would look better on the floor beside her high chair.
It appears that this restaurant is a ‘bare minimum’ type operation. Little effort and poor quality ingredients to reduce overhead is the operational standard here.
Again…I’m not a fan of negative reviews, but I felt the need to warn other families that think they might give this place a whirl on family night. Go to McDonald’s and let the kids play in the play place and get a fish sandwich.
Also, I felt very sick about half an hour after eating. I ended up puking… Sorry if that is TMI, but I NEVER get sick from eating.ever. A day later and I can still taste the grease.

If I could give this place less than one star, I would. My family had a horrible experience there this evening. The food was sub-​par and the service was worse. When I complained to the manager, he nonchalantly asked me what I wanted him to do. He was completely unprofessional and unconcerned about our dining experience. Avoid this place unless you want to waste your money for a stressed out lunch or dinner.

The meal was unbelievably salty. So salty that it completely overwhelmed any of the food’s flavor. Mouth-​puckering salty. Nose wrinkling salty. Multiple glasses of water salty. Can’t finish what’s on the plate salty. Heart attack salty. Salt on salt salty.
If you’re on a sodium restricted diet, keep driving.
I feel sorry for the waitstaff, who were friendly, but who have to bear the brunt of the extremely overly salty heavy hand of this restaurant’s kitchen.

2^nd time eating here. 1^st time for dinner and now for lunch. Both times the food taste old and not fresh. The service is normal. The price is is high for the quality of food. Priced like a tourist trap with no atmosphere and pre-​frozen food. The men’s bathroom is also very dirty and smells. The only good thing that I have had were the hush puppies.

I go for the hush puppies. I’m honest here. The food is okay. The service is on par. The prices are way too high for what it is.
One big complaint is the abundance of Old Bay seasoning this place likes to put on my shrimp. A little goes a long way, folks.

DISGUSTING FOOD. Our waiter was super weird too.

Monday nights, kids eat free here.
The food isnt horrible, it just isnt the caliber it used to be. The she crab soup is ok. But if you get a chance to try the fish stew — that is hands down still one of their best items on the menu.
I personally only like to get the appetizers anymore, namely the oysters, crab leg or hot peel and shrimp appetizer.
I just find that most of their food is always overly greasy. The hush puppies, the green beans and rice. Too much grease. Its like they just dont care about the quality of the food anymore. Quite sad actually cause i used to love this place.
My son loves the fish sticks here. They kids portion will feed an adult easily.
I like the bar area in the back, its nice and cozy. The bartenders are attentive and friendly.
The servers are always really nice as are the hostesses.

I got food poisoning from oysters eaten at Gilligan’s on Ladson Road in Summerville. I spent my New Year’s Eve in emergency care hooked up to an IV. Blood and urine tests confirmed a bacterial infection and the doctor said the culprit was oysters. The doctor said the bacteria that caused the food poisoning came from the oysters not being cooked and/​or cleaned properly.
Gilligan’s first denied liability when my grandma went back to the restaurant to speak with them. They said it takes at least 24 hours to get food poisoning and therefore I couldn’t have gotten it from their oysters. After the doctor confirmed it was food poisoning from oysters, she called to let them know that evening. The manager didn’t return her call until the next day and then only refunded $ 12 for the oysters, but would not refund the entire meal. They are a seafood restaurant and work with seafood every day. They should know how to cook oysters properly AND they should take responsibility when someone gets sick from a meal that wasn’t cooked correctly.
Bad customer service, bad oysters. DON’T GO HERE!

We love to go to Gilligans for the local steamed oysters. And just as many times before we were not disappointed on this visit. The oysters are clean and steamed perfectly. We also tried some calamari and shrimp dip. The shrimp dip was our favorite. The service was on point. Our server was very attentive and made sure we had everything we needed.

Not a bad place to grab a meal or a few drinks. Nothing too special but some decent fried seafood for chain restaurant prices. Never my first choice for a meal, but we lived so close by it served it’s purpose on quite a few occasions.
Hushpuppies are pretty awesome here though. Not bad to have an order of with a beer at the bar.