Shem Creek is a working creek in Mount Pleasant where the shrimp boats tie up. The restaurants sit right on the docks, so dinner comes with boats, birds and a sunset.
Shem Creek restaurants on the docks
- Red's Ice House, for a cold beer and seafood on the dock.
- Saltwater Cowboys, seafood and barbecue, opened in 2017.
- Sunsets Creekside Bar, next door, with live music on the water.
- Tavern & Table, with a dock bar.
- Charleston Crab House and Water's Edge.
The Shem Creek seafood house behind the docks
The Wreck of the Richard and Charlene is the one people miss. It is at 106 Haddrell Street, behind the docks, and it is named for a boat Hurricane Hugo left there.
A Shem Creek family story
Ronnie Boals opened R.B.'s Seafood on the creek in 1985. Sunsets stands on that spot now. His son Wade is one of the owners of Saltwater Cowboys next door.
Near Shem Creek
NICO Oysters + Seafood is on Coleman Boulevard beside the creek. Mount Pleasant Seafood is a fish market on the bank, run by the fourth generation of one family. The Mill Street Tavern is on Mill Street.
A few blocks away in the Old Village, Pitt Street Pharmacy still runs a soda fountain inside a working pharmacy.