Hege's Restaurant — Restaurant in South Carolina

Fine dining prices with a fine dining menu, but don’t be fooled- the food was a train wreck.

Let’s walk through the night:

The sourdough and cornbread that came to the table was good. No complaints there. The bread was bread. Thanks.

After that it was a party and not the kind that leaves you and your friends reminiscing the next morning, but the kind where you wake up in a random bathtub full of ice and your missing a kidney.

When we got the Cesar salad it was a mystery to me because they had replaced the Cesar dressing with Italian. Is this how they serve it in France - I wondered as my fork bent to the granite croutons. None the less, we trudged on.

The calamari was fine. Standard. Lightly breaded with Thai chili sauce. Much like what they serve at Zen or countless other establishments around town. Nothing special, but also it checked the box. Onward.

The Beef Tartare was the size of a hubcap. A mountain or cold, sad “filet” with a raw egg on top. When I stuck my fork into it and put it in my mouth, it was ice cold, borderline frozen in the middle? How could this be, I thought as I smeared some on a stale cracker. Where was the flavor? What had they done with it? Was this another secret of the French that I was unaware of?

When the entrees arrived we were worn out. The tartare had beat us into submission.

The halibut for the lady. Stir fried frozen vegetables on-top a bed of rice with two halibut filets resting on top. It was “okay.” Covered with salt, it was as “special” as described. 3 out of 5.

I had the ribeye and it was also “okay” but the micro Brussels that had barely touched any heat, were sad, small and raw. Potato gratin that left my taste buds wandering in a basin of despair. The steak was cooked well, but the cut was lackluster at best.

We shared a faintly style bowl of mashed potatoes with a gravy and outside of the bowl being 7000 degrees- even after we were done, they were good.

Kiawah, you got us. We fell for the charade. We we ere duped. We came here for fine dining but instead we only got fine dining prices. We will stick to downtown where they understand the nuances of the human...

Quaint location, poor slow service. My daughter and I chose to have a light breakfast there on our way out of Kiawah. My daughter wanted the avacado toast dish that came with eggs, fruit etc. (14:00) she did not want all the other items. Just the avacado toast. So I asked our server if it was possible me to have just the toast. She responded they would do that. Considering bread /toast is an individual add on for 3$, I assumed the same. Received the bill and notes we were charged the full 14$ for 1 pice of toast with avocado. I spoke the the waiter who after the fact explains they don’t break up the breakfasts?!? Well maybe she should have mentioned that prior to the order Or offered me perhaps a side order of toast? But no, took it upon themselves to charge me the full amount. The manager came out and heard my plea, was unwilling to make any changes. Caution: ensure you are wanting everything becasue that’s what you will get charged for. 14$ for one piece of toast. In my opinion the culture is not customer focused as this could have been easily rectified. Cancel the avacado toast meal, add in an order of toast? But it’s near impossible for anyone working there to get that principle. We will certainly not be back. I had the hege breakfast 2 eggs over medium with crusty hard edges, but good on inside, 2 hardly edible burnt slices of bacon but the pimento cheese grits were very well done. Safe your time and money and try JAVA next door. Fast friendly service with coffee and an array of breakfast options. Shame on you Hege for your lack of apology or attempt to correct on obvious misunderstanding. I’m all about fairness and am more than happy to pay well for great service. This environment is only focused on their own ridgity and don’t cast Abojt...

Delicious, great service, but sleazy. Who charges a dollar to make a drink on the rocks. Yup, a buck for a few ice cubes. Not once, but on both my seatmate's drinks. Really? How chintzy! We all thought the supplementary fee for using a credit card was tacky, but charging for ice? Also, pass on the 7 dollar sip of expresso. Note to owner: Nickle and diming customers leaves one with a bad taste in ones mouth despite the delicious food. People are going to drop a couple of bills to eat there, so grubbing for an extra buck makes you look ticky tacky and greedy.

Part 2: Many thanks for your response. I asked our server at the Royal Tern this evening about the "buck for ice" question. She confirmed your response, so my apologies for that. She did however agree with us that the supplementary fee for using a credit card was a stretch. We backchecked our first visit to your resto and noted that the supplementary fee was not added to that bill. Is this a new feature? Maybe worth the price as we each had five bucks of fun laughing about it. Also had an excellent halibut that evening. As delicious as the tuna I had last night. So, apologies for the ice thing. Was not explained the why, but am satisfied that it's a real thing. The expresso was good, but...