Lee's Inlet Kitchen — Restaurant in Myrtle Beach

First of all, I salute to the Lee family who have owned this restaurant for 73 years. That is amazing. Now about our experience. We had to wait for 7-8 min to get our table which is absolutely fine. Service was great and the restaurant is nice and clean. We ordered crab soup, grilled combination platter, and broiled seafood platter. Hush puppies served before our meal were hot and tasty. We liked them a lot. My crab soup had generous amount of the crab meat. While it was tasty, it also was too salty. Maybe because it was cooked too early in advance and too much liquid get evaporated. Our house salad was nice, fresh, and crispy. House made dressings, ranch and blue cheese, were good as well. Now about the main course. Deviled crab was just a regular crab cake. There is nothing special about it and nothing much to say about it. But my oysters and sea scallops were right on money, fresh, and cooked perfectly. They tasted delicious. I expected the same from shrimp and flounder but I was wrong. To my surprise, shrimp were overcooked, and because of that, rubbery and tasteless. I thought I get unlucky but my wife confirmed that her grilled shrimp taste the same. Shrimp cooks very quickly, so there's a fine line between poorly cooked and properly cooked, and I definitely expected seafood restaurant with so long history to deliver exactly what expected. Maybe I expected too much. Now about our flounder fillet. It wasn't great either. It was dry and tasted as the fish was kept frozen for way too long. I think it would be totally okay to use it for a chowder but when it get grilled and broiled, it didn't deliver the taste it should. I'm surprised that chef permitted to serve our shrimp and flounder. If he/she checks every plate as it...

My family and I have been going to Lee's for years and years and it has always been our favorite place for seafood. This all changed last week. We got to the restaurant at 5:35pm last Monday with a party of 13 and the wait was supposed to be an hour to be seated. We were fine with the quoted wait time. We were finally called to be seated at 6:45. Once seated, we ordered our food as soon as we were able to with our server. She was very busy. It did take quite some time for the salads and hush puppies to arrive but when they came they were good. After salads and hush puppies there were 3 appetizers that we ordered that we had been waiting for for a while now. At about 830, the server brought one app out and said sorry your not getting the 2 fried green tomatoes, we are out. So they ran out of tomatoes an hour after we had ordered them? So then finally at 850 half of us recieved our entrees, and then at 9:00 the other half of us recieved our entrees. We spent 4 hours at this restaurant, 2 of those hours we were waiting on our food, and the wrost part of the whole situation in my opinion was that the manager was no where to be found. I work in the food service industry and know that times are tough with staffing right now. I do get it! But poor management should not be happening at "the best seafood restaurant in the south" as they say. It would have been nice if a manager had come over and acknowledged that we had been there for Soo long without food, and tried to rectify the situation. Instead they continued to seat the restaurant to get more paying customers in the door without taking care of the ones that had been there half of the evening. It's sad to say, but our group will not be...

Think twice before eating at Lee's Inlet Kitchen. I recommend you find a restaurant that cares about hygine and their customers. This one appears not to. My friend and I went there for dinner recently. We placed our order, one appetizer (chargrilled oysters) , two entrees. In the third oyster, there were six, we found a hair. We thought it might be a string of cheese but when we looked more closely we saw it was a hair. When we told our waitress, she was as appalled as we were. She took it back and said she was definitely telling the owner. She returned and asked if we wanted another. After finding the hair in the first order, we declined. She said we would not be charged for the appetizer. Not charged for an unhealthy, uneatten appetizer - how gracious. She said she thought the owner might do more when she told him/her, but he/she hadn't offered anything. I cautiously ate my entree. We paid the bill and left. The owner never bothered to come to the table to apologize for the hair in the food. The few times this type of situation has happened to me at other restaurants the manager or owner has personally apologized and either comped or discounted the meal. We were not trying to get a free appetizer. Nor where we angling for a free dinner. A personal apology, an expression of caring about your customer's experience would have been sufficient. This establishment couldn't be bothered with that basic gesture. The food may be ok but the owner appears not to be concerned about hygine or customer experience. A....