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Pawleys Plantation in Pawleys Island will host a Father's Day Brunch Buffet, which will be open to the public, on Fathers Day in the Pawleys Plantation Sawgrass Dining Room. All fathers will receive a complimentary cocktail.

Also, a golf pro will be on site from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to give dads complimentary putting and chipping tips.

Award-winning chef Ernest Bledsoe will prepare a special buffet, available from 11 a.m. to ...

Did you hear about the new family and locals' discounts being offered at Hard Rock Park?

The new deals last through June and include:

A family of four or more may receive one-day general admission tickets for $40 each; buy two-day passes for $50 each; or purchase a seven-day package for $65 each, which allows you to eat at a different Park restaurant every night!

Also through the end of June, North and ...

Every Sunday, http://www.myrtlebeachrestaurantnews.com/ has a cookbook giveaway. It's always a newly released cookbook. On June 1 they gave away a really cool one called "Pops!" by Krystina Castella.

What a fantastic idea Tim and Rhonda Morris had! The couple opened Morsels Market at 619 Front St. in Georgetown, and live-aboard boaters who stop at Georgetown on their journey up or down the Intracoastal Waterway are loving the gourmet selections.

Locals and land-arriving visitors are also enjoying the choice foods.

And what's not to love? Many downtown store proprietors come in at lunchtime to check out ...

This petite 42-year-old mother of two named Juliette Lee won the Ultimate Eating Contest at Broadway at the Beach. Her husband and daughters came with her from Maryland, and they plan to spend part of Juliette's $500 first-place winnings at Hard Rock Park.

Smoothies, chicken wings, pizzas, hot dogs and nachos were the dishes each contestant had to chow ...

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 ...

Louis's at Pawleys, which is in the Pawleys Island Hammock Shops, has new menu items.

New dinner dishes include:

Short Rib Ravioli with Red Wine and Truffles

Baked Grouper, Shrimp and Oysters in Piquant Sauce with Aromatic Rice

Grilled Free Range Chicken Breast with Black Eyed Pea Risotto and Collard Greens

Orecchiette with Garlic Spring Peas, Asparagus and Morels tossed in Parmesan Cream

Mustard Crusted Salmon with Potatoes, Spinach and Dijon Broth

Pepper Seared Tuna with Tomatoes, ...

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," ...

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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 ...

You know a place has better-than-average food when you see a lot of people dining there who look like they know their ways around a kitchen. You can look at them and imagine scooting up close to their tables and enjoying some fine home cooking.

And that's the sort of folks you see at Surfside Jenny's during breakfast and lunch hours.

You can get biscuits and gravy, eggs, grits, home fries and ...