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Friday, April 4th, 2008

Win Hard Rock Park Tickets



http://www.myrtlebeachrestaurantnews.com   is giving away two day passes to Hard Rock Park so a couple hungry rock 'n' rollers can check out the park's great restaurants. This May the park opens, and it's the world's first amusement park to bear the Hard Rock name.

You can enter every day through Tuesday, May 6. On Wednesday, May 7, they'll announce the winner.

Some of the menu items to look forward to at the ...

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Gordon Biersch is the new brewer in town



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Photo caption: This is Dan Gordon, one of the founding partners of Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants. He came to Myrtle Beach on March 31 for a day of media interviews before the company's 26th store opens on March 3.

Ingredients first

Dan Gordon had nothing to do with selecting Myrtle Beach as the 26th Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, and Monday he made his first-ever trip to the ...

Monday, March 10th, 2008

All Systems GO



My family and I attended the official launch of CanAm Week yesterday - a concert by Festive Brass, which is a volunteer all-brass band. The house was packed!

 Canadian-American Week is a big deal around Myrtle Beach because so many Canadians come here for the week of fellowship, fun and special events. And the warm weather - can't forget that. Those wacky Canadians even go swimming here this week - a ...

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Up to his head in soda bread



Last year Steve Perrone of Perrone's Fine Food and Wine Market in Pawleys Island spent two full days right before St. Patrick's Day making 200 loaves of Irish Soda Bread.

"I was literally covered with flour for two days," he says.

This year he is taking pre-orders for his hugely popular soda bread. It's $7.99 for a round 10-inch loaf that serves 10 people.

"Traditional Irish soda bread is on the dry side," ...

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

French influence



Chef Eric Masson 

Family oriented

With a couple thousand restaurants, the Grand Strand area has a lot of chefs. At least half of those chefs grew up somewhere else before deciding they wanted to work and live at the beach.

So here at the Carolina coast we have plenty of eager young chefs ready to make their grill marks on the world and then surf on ...

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Can-Am Days



47th Annual Canadian-American Days Festival
March 8 - 16
Myrtle Beach, SC

Stay tuned for additional details about these fun Can-Am events.  Or, for more information about Can-Am Days, call 843-626-7444 or visit http://www.canamdays.com.

March 1 - United States Army Field Band Concert
March 6-8 - National Shag Dance Championships
March 8-16 - Canadian Appreciation Days in Georgetown County
March 10 - Can-Am Kick-off Celebration Expo
March 11 - South Strand Can-Am ...

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Culinary Competition



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We had 86 chefs, 441 gourmet dishes, four world-class chef/judges...and it took place in just three days, Iron Chef-style.

The Myrtle Beach Chapter of the American Culinary Federation had its seventh annual culinary competition Jan. 29-31. All the action, including photos of the chefs' dishes, can be found at:

http://www.myrtlebeachrestaurantnews.com/culinarycompetition.html

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

True crime



Did you know one of the country's hottest new (and extremely prolific) true crime authors lives in Horry County?

Yep, Dale Hudson's true crime writing career started about 10 years ago with the story of a local teenage girl who was killed by one of her best male friends. Since then he has authored several other books.

His books include:

"An Hour To Kill," the story of a teenage girl killed by one ...

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Mount Myrtle



Mitt and Rudy

We have a GOP presidential debate taking place tomorrow (Jan. 10), here in Myrtle Beach at our lovely convention center.

In honor of the candidates a team of professional sand sculptors is creating likenesses of the candidates in sand. We locals are calling it Mount Myrtle.

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

New Year's Eve



Coming to Myrtle Beach for New Year's Eve? This link lists some parties and other festivities:

http://www.myrtlebeachrestaurantnews.com/newyearseveparties.html