Pier House Restaurant

Went last minute for the breakfast after seeing such raving reviews. We got the 2 piece entrée/​side breakfast meal. Every single piece of this meal was fantastic. It was absolutely the best breakfast food I was ever served. The eggs were flavorful. The sausage was well seasoned. The grits were buttery and tasty. Can only review the breakfast, but I’m sure lunch and dinner is just as great, if not better. Breakfast ends at 11!

Three stars for the food and service and a 4^th for the view If you are a non-​tourist-​ish person it’s hard to find a nice place on the strip in MB. But the service was very friendly on a slow Columbus day and the food was really good. Fish tacos and Grouper Ruben. $ 3 Landsharks all day every day too. 180′ ocean views.

First, the restaurant is lovely. Gorgeous views of the adjacent pier, beach and panoramic waterfront with a bright, airy interior. After a pretty terrible breakfast at my hotel’s restaurant, my parents and I drove over to Pier House to check out the lunch menu. So glad we did.
I started with the special, a cup of shrimp bisque, which was rich, velvety, and perfectly seasoned. We shared an order of crispy, surprisingly non-​greasy onion rings and I certainly could’ve made a meal out of those alone. As an entrée, I ordered a chicken caesar salad («the sinker» with heart of romaine, tomatoes, crumbled egg, shaved parmesan and croutons), which was fine, except I should have gotten the dressing on the side. It was clearly housemade with generous chunks of anchovy (yum!) but completely drenched the salad to the point where it was somewhat soggy. A shame because the flavor was great.
Otherwise, my mom’s Chesterfield crabcake sandwich was wonderful (excellent remoulade) and service was spot on.

Average unflavorful food with very small selection of seafood. We had the seafood platter, seafood pasta, and grouper reuben.
Hush puppies were excellent. Our party of three all left underwhelmed, disappointed, and deceived by the high reviews left by people before us.
The only redeeming quality was the view and the staff.
Unfortunately not much more to say.

The view is fantastic and everything sounds delicious on the menu. I ordered the seafood pasta and my husband the seafood platter. My pasta needed something else and I wasn’t fond of the noodles themselves, I felt like I could have made this at home but better. My husbands dish was ok it had plenty of food but was lacking in flavor. There is a beach bar upstairs that has fantastic 360 views and pub food. All in all I would say this place is ok but not the best in Myrtle Beach.

Definitely a primarily-​seafood restaurant. Not a bad thing, but not usually my cup of tea. Still, I kept hearing about the gorgeous view from the restaurant, so I was excited to partake. However, when we got there, they seated us in a table furthest away from any of the windows. We asked for a table near the windows, but we were told it wouldn’t be possible, so it ruined a bit of the appeal of the restaurant. Regardless, there’s still a good view of the Pier and ocean from the restaurant. I prefer the view from the upstairs open air bar, but this restaurant still has a good view.
I wasn’t so fond of the food here, but it wasn’t horrible. They definitely are specialized with seafood, and it’s not some place that I’d really recommend if you don’t like seafood. They have a couple non-​seafood options, but it’s definitely focused there. The onion rings were fantastic, but I was a lot less impressed by the french fries. I was told that the seafood was pretty good, though, so if you love seafood, you might like the food a lot more.
Service was okay. Nothing particularly special. Did a good job of keeping up on drinks, but the check was a bit slow and if asked, we were ready to order another round of drinks, but it wasn’t offered after the initial drink order.
Pricing does expensive here. For two people, we ended up at $ 60 for two entrees and two drinks. Yeah, it gets expensive quickly.
They also have an upstairs open air bar area. This is a lot more casual. They serve the same drinks as the restaurant below but they also have more drinks. You mostly need to go find a place to sit and get drinks from the bar as you want them. There doesn’t seem to be any waitress service here. However, the view from up here is gorgeous. They have exterior seating and an open-​air bar. The exterior seating is designed for 2 – 4 people and goes all the way around the building, so you can see the sun/​shade as much as you want. As this restaurant is right against the ocean, half of the restaurant has a glorious view of the beach. The open air bar prices are pretty intense, though. In the off-​season, for three drinks (one of which was non-​alcoholic), we paid $ 19.50. Ouch.
As a note, though, this restaurant has free parking in the gravel lot right next to it.
While the restaurant does seem to have the potential to be pretty awesome, I just didn’t leave the restaurant feeling particularly valued or wow’ed — especially for the price.

Had a nice dinner with the family. The only real negative was sitting directly across from the entrance to the kitchen. Service was very good our waiter Chris did an excellent job he was always on the ball.
The other thing we wish we would have known when putting our name in was to request a table with a view. You have to request one while on the wait list otherwise you will not be seated by the window over looking the ocean. We literally watched a couple ask for a another table and told it was reserved for someone else on the wait list.
We had hush puppies and their cheesy crab dip, lots and lots of cheese not enough crab. Kids liked it well enough. My wife had the special Mahi Mahi grilled, it was awesome! I had the grouper? At least they said it was grouper. Thinnest filet of grouper I have ever had. Decent house salads with homemade dressings.

A great breakfast with a wonderful view. I had THE AMBERJACK (omelet with bacon, sausage, and cheddar cheese) with a biscuit and a side of fruit. Fantastic food and reasonably priced.
The service was also top notch. Don’t miss this place.
After your meal take a walk on the pier for $ 1.

Amazing Food !! Love the cocktail sauce.
Lovely ambiance and the Beach view. I recommend this restaurant when you visit Myrtle Beach !!

I was seated quickly and treated to a great ocean view for breakfast.
Daniel was polite and efficient as he handled my drink order right away, along with my food choices several minutes later.
The shrimp, ham, pepper jack cheese grits were very good. Rich flavor but not overpowering. I added two eggs on the side as this dish does not come with them.
Massive plus is that this spot has free parking and an open air bar upstairs!

We just had a great dinner at pier house. We had looked over all of the reviews and saw that they were generally positive.
We came in for an early dinner around 5:30pm on a Sunday night and they were not busy at all. We even got sat in the sun and asked if we could move tables and the staff was great.
We were front and center on the windows looking over the beach and the pier.
The food came out so fast and was all hot and very delicious. I had the chicken sandwich and it was fantastic. If you get it make sure to try the basil mayo it comes with even if you don’t like mayo, it made the sandwich.
The only reason I took a star off was for the pricing, we got lower end menu items and a dinner for four was 67 $. I could easily see it getting up and over 150 $ for four with all getting seafood dishes.
Also to go out on the pier it costs 1 $ but that gets you access until 12am. It seems annoying but on the restaurant sign it says that they don’t receive tax money from the city, it’s a private pier and they need to pay for upkeep. Enjoy the views out there!

I loved this restaurant! I had come across it on Unilocal a while back, and had added it into my cue to go to someday; well, that someday was tonight!!!
We went for an early dinner on a Sunday. Many open tables! Got right in. They say is in the sun, so we asked if we could switch tables, they were great! We switched to a table with a fantastic view!
Food was great! The food can get a bit pricey depending on what you order. But you’re getting seafood on the ocean. Literally! Right on the beach. Four of us went. We got a chicken sandwich, a burger, and two shrimp salads. Total came to $ 67. I really didn’t think that was bad. Which is why I left it at 5 stars.
Server was quick — Kept coming with drink refills before our glasses were even half empty. For our family, that’s huge. Great place to come check out if you’re ever around the 2^nd ave area!

My fiancé, son, and I went here for dinner on a Tuesday night. We were able to find a parking spot, because they have their own parking lot. We were quickly seated by the windows, which gave us a great view of the ocean and pier.
Our server was Scott. He did an excellent job recommending different cocktails and entrees. He was super friendly and his attentiveness to our needs was great! He did a good job helping to space out our different courses, which allowed us to enjoy them.
My fiancé and I ordered a bowl of clam chowder each. It was excellent! Usually I put crackers in my coup, but I skipped over the crackers this time. They definitely weren’t needed. The soup was flavorful and different than most clam chowders I’ve had. My fiancé ordered the broiled scallops with the vegetable medley. It was a huge helping and definitely got his money’s worth. I also ordered the broiled scallops with the loaded mashed potatoes. The scallops were absolutely delicious. They were flavorful, well seasoned, and cooked perfectly (hard to do). I would recommend this dish to anyone and everyone.
Overall, the views were great. After dinner you can take a walk on the pier at half price (0.50/pp). The food was delicious and the service was great! You definitely need to check this place out for dinner!

Dame with the family on vacation. We only ate breakfast here, but it was great. 2 kids and my wife. We all enjoyed our meals. The service was good and the prices were reasonable for a sit down breakfast. The views were great and it’s very clean. If you’re near here, it’s a great spot.
Not sure about dinner, but if guess it’s good, too.

Ugh I hate having to give it a one star because it is ZERO!!! It was so terrible! We went for dinner at 5 and sat down no problem. We order appetizers and they were put in five minutes! We ordered the fried green tomato and shrimp stack and the crab dip. The shrimp were baby shrimp and it was like a salad, def not what we expected and it was not good!!! The crab dip… well let’s just say we had two bites… barf! As soon as he gave us the appetizers he took our order which at any other restaurant would of given someone plenty of time to enjoy the app’s but not here! He put our order in and I kid you not came right back with our salads! We had a bite of our app!!! Than within 8 minutes we had our meal! We were still eating our salads! So than our table looked ridiculous! All the meals were loaded and our waiter didn’t remove any of the plates even though we were done with half of them! I ordered the seafood pasta. It had clams mussels shrimp in a broth with pasta shells. It was bland and gritty with sand!!! Plus they left a clam that didn’t open instead of removing it! I didn’t eat the meal after the second bite, eating sand was not my idea of dinner. I told the waiter about the horrible meal and he basically gave me the I don’t care attitude and offered a free dessert. I declined just wanting the meal to end already. Needless to say we do not recommend this restaurant! Oh and to top it off we wanted to go out on the pier and you have to pay $ 1 to do so!!! WTHeck!!! Seriously!!! Nope!!! If you want seafood and a good meal go to Murrels Inlet! You won’t find good seafood in MB that isn’t crap for tourists!

Our meal was great here! One of the better places to eat in town. A little pricy, some plates are $ 20 – 24 dollar range. But the service was excellent and the inside was very nice. We had the blackened grouper and scallops which were both delicious.
Afterwards you can walk the pretty pier ($ 1 admission per person)
Cons: No baby changing stations in any of the restrooms. They don’t have caesar salads (which was odd, they only have a spring salad where you can put caesar dressing on which tasted awful). Also the surrounding area is low income, we got heckled for money in the parking lot (but maybe that’s Myrtle Beach)

I’ll give it a 3 stars but only because of the service and view. It’s such a unique location and we enjoyed ourselves but it just seemed expensive for the size dishes.
The food was good & hot but not worth the price. I wouldn’t go back but rather go to the lounge upstairs for the same view.

The view here gets an extra star. Right over the beach, lots of glass and sorta-​urban modern-​ish, beachy design, so getting a seat with a view adds to the experience, inside or out.
Service was fine for casual dining, again, inside or out.
My partner and I visited a few times during off hours (because we’re really not fans of large open spaces full of hard surfaces, filled to scream-​worthy levels (as this place can be, all that glass and whatnot)), and really enjoyed ourselves.
Was a series of clean, pleasant, well-​serviced meals. Nothing was «foodie» level tasty. Creativity was pretty much nonexistent, but the food was okay and served at the right temp; so, there’s that.

What a perfect meal to end a perfect day.
Everything from service, dinner, dessert and atmosphere were exceptional.
Loved the hush puppies with corn kernels. Yum
The blacken Mahi Mahi was seasoned perfectly with a light blackened hint. Loved it made that way. It was not over powering.
My duo of oysters and scallops were cooked to perfection and fresh!
Our Key Lime pie completed a great meal.
Everything we ate was great.
I do understand there may be a variation in the menu if you eat on the balcony. We ate inside and had an upscale meal. Upstairs in the balcony it is more informal.

We visited for breakfast. Overall a good dining experience. Beautiful setting and great views. The menu was relatively small but the options were good. It was one page.
My wife ordered the orange crusted peanut butter and banana sandwich. She said that she really liked it. The orange flavor was just right. Not overpowering… just enough to notice it.
I ordered the Socastee shrimp and grits. The shrimp was great quality and the flavor that the andouille sausage added made the dish in my opinion. It came with their version of a red eye gravy which was decent but I feel could have done without. The grits themselves were wonderful. Being a southerner myself I am picky when it comes to grits.
Service was okay. We were sat immediately and allowed to pick where we wanted to sit. The food came out quickly and was hot. Presentation was great. A little disappointed in the table service. Once our rood was brought our waiter didn’t return until we were finished. So we ate most of the meal with empty glasses. Not as big of a deal for me but my wife was eating peanut butter so she was thristy. Restaurant wasn’t busy so that couldn’t be the issue.
Price is a little bit steep for breakfast but it is a nicer restaurant where attention to detail seems important. Fresh ingredients.
I would definitely eat here again. Would love to try out the dinner. Might have to wait until our next myrtle Beach visit. Oh and be careful… we were not made aware that the orange juice is pay per glass… no free refills. That added up quickly.