Hyman Seafood

"Bigger than its plate, this whole fried flounder is a breeze to eat. Those succulent chunks of meat lift off the skeleton with the greatest of ease."
Michael Stern






"The crispy flounder comes with pepper-hot jelly to garnish the hunks of meat."
Michael Stern



"Thirty steamed shrimp: peel and eat!"
Michael Stern



"A Charleston signature dish, she-crab soup is often spiked with sherry. We didn't taste any booze in this one, but it was loaded with crab meat."
Michael Stern



"For decades before the Hyman family turned this space into a seafood restaurant, they were known as a wholesale dry goods business. This Hanes ad on the wall goes back to the beginning of the last century."
Michael Stern



"The building that houses Charleston's immensely popular seafood restaurant has been a Hyman family enterprise for well over a century. The doorway is on the right of the photo."
Michael Stern