It is what it is... an interesting place to visit. Â Out of the food, mac and cheese is probably the best thing they've got. Â Everything else is just ok. Â If you've never had fried shark, you can find it here but don't expect to be blown off your feet. Â The prices are definitely not cheap.
Review Source:Absolutely one of the best, most authentic regional Low Country cuisine places in the vein of the Gullah tradition. The she-crab soup has no match, everything grown and raised within a few feet of the very rustic general store setting of the restaurant. A sweet grass basket maker, Ms. Jerri, is your landmark as she is often making them on the front porch! I'm eating the shark strips and fried shrimp dinner with red rice, Lima beans, potato salad and if that weren't enough, the mac-n-cheese!
Review Source:I had to work with a caterer to feed 21 vegetarians/vegans for a whole weekend on the island. Bill and Sara, the owners, not only worked with me, they designed a special menu for our group and met us personally at dinner and lunch. If you are vegetarian and have trouble finding food in the south, please go to Gullah Grubs. The food was excellent and there was plenty!
I was also able to special order some of their seafood for myself and other meat-eaters in the group. The fried fish I had was sooo delicious.
This is a family-owned, family run business with great food and it bears the mark of their intentional care and thoughtful hospitality. Â They opened the restaurant after hours for our enormous group and even invited us to local events going on on the island the weekend we were there. I didn't feel like a customer when I was there, I felt like a part of their family. Gullah Grub is not just a restaurant, it's an institution.
I had seen this place on No Reservations and figured it must be good, but that was a mistake. Our first clue to the less than stellar food should have been that there wasn't a single local in there, but we blindly pressed on.
When we sat down a friendly young lady promptly took our drink order and then just as promptly forgot about us (we never saw her again). About thirty minutes later an older woman came over and we reordered our drinks and took our food order.
We ordered Shrimp gumbo ($15.95) and Fish chowder ($10.95). Mine came with red rice (they were out of white rice) and collard greens. The red rice tasted as if it came out of a card board box and was hours and hours old. The collard greens were okay. The fish chowder sides were slated on the menu to be corn bread, white rice and a salad. Instead they served reheated red rice and collard greens.
My gumbo came in a medium sized bowl had maybe six pieces of shrimp in it. The overall quality was edible, but less than impressive. Her fish chowder "was fine", but didn't have much fish. It did have an inch sized bone in it.
In all we were in there for an hour and a half and fifteen minutes of that was used for eating.
The people were really nice, but nice isn't good enough at their prices. Â Overall a disappointing outing. Tourists beware!!!
Gullah Grub was a fun place to lunch while we were on vacation with the family...
Our friend wanted to try it after learning that Chef Green has been featured on several programs including Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Martha Stewart Living. We didn't argue, and we had a pleasant dining experience.
Our server was friendly and attentive... He was the only one working the day we were there, but still managed to keep our swamp water (aka Arnold Palmers) refilled promptly.
We feasted on a ton of low country cuisine including cornbread, squash casserole, mac n cheese, shrimp gumbo, crab soup, and more. Â My only complaints were that the cornbread was dry and that they were out of collards!
Even so, it's worth mixing things up and checking out Gullah Grub when you're in the area. Â Not only is it Anthony Bourdain and Martha Stewart approved, it's yelper approved too!
One of my favorite spots. Fresh, local, in-season ingredients. Fish Chowder is amazing. Squash casserole light and delicious. Peach cobbler and strawberries on corn bread is damn good. Authentic LowCountry Gullah cooking. Â As with many "slow food" joints, they often do not have certain ingredients on hand. Â And when they run out, they run out. Â But damn it, it's good!
Review Source:don't waste your time. We stopped there for lunch and ordered. We waited at least 45 minutes for the food to arrive and then the waitress came over and told us that they were out of most of the ingredients and that they would have to buy some more. This included chicken. Meanwhile, other tables of people were leaving in frustration because of the same reason. We finished our drinks and left as well. It's unfortunate because the people there were very nice and well meaning. But they were just completely disorganized and just didn't have it together at all. I figure that this restaurant survives because of tourists who pass through...I didn't notice any locals eating there. And for probably a good reason.
Review Source:Yum!!! Â Gullah Grub is a great, comfortable place to eat. Â It's located right at an intersection but is still somewhat overlookable since it's in an old house that doesn't immediately look like a restaurant. Â Inside, it smells like my grandmother's kitchen and has the feel of a neighbor's dining room. Â The staff is wonderfully warm and considerate -- they'll talk to you as much or as little as you seem to want to be talked to. Â And the food is excellent. Â It might sound odd, but this is _not_ food that I'd see coming out of a standard restaurant kitchen -- it's not an elegant presentation with 'creatively' put together menu items. Â Instead, this is straightforward food that people actually eat in their homes, and it's wonderful and served in overflowing bowls and plates. Â I'd visit again!
Review Source:First of all if you have a <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Frestaurant.com&s=c5fe485af4df376130bee54f875814d79c4d7913e1258123b1206d2bdbf4873b" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://restaurant.com</a> gift certificate - leave it in the car since they don't accept them. That being said my family enjoyed this place. My son enjoyed the macaroni and cheese and loved the shark bites and pie. My husband enjoyed his low country boil and peach cobbler. My daughter marginally liked her BBQ chicken and rice...my fried shrimp and potato salad were good, but really six small shrimp? Â It's very slow service and they have three drinks, tea lemonade and a mixture of both. Many folks left since they felt they waited too long. There's a local artist that takes up the front porch with her wares - $1k for a basket?
Review Source:This place has some of the best ambiance and the friendliest staff anywhere. <a href="/redir?url=http%3A%2F%2FRestaurant.com&s=0aab4cbd731f3d3b0d1453050d3abc56a8c80bd214e25469c7555b750dca8a51" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://Restaurant.com</a> has a $25 off of $35 certificate which will make your meal here the best deal going. Brought three kids in here on a Sunday and it honestly feels like you are eating dinner in someone's house. The TV was playing a loop of the owner with Martha Stewart and Anthony Bourdain as well as a few other stories that had been done on the place. Complimentary corn bread was unreal, just fantastic. Kids all wanted chicken and since there really isn't a kids menu the server, who is the owner's daughter I believe, offered to split a meal up for the kids which worked great. I had the fried shark strips which were nothing short of awesome and my wife had shrimp and grits which was also really good. The overall experience was memorable and will definitely go back. Make sure you check the house on their website as they are a little non standard.
Review Source:My friend and I stopped here to eat while on a SC beach/camping road trip. I had found this place through some sort of web search for restaurant recommendations in the area on the way to Hunting Island. I am surprised to find that it has no reviews since this place and the chef (Bill Green) have been featured on Martha Stewart Living and No Reservations. If you check out their website you will see they sell cooking videos and rubs and sauces, but I have no experience with that stuff, so anyhooo....
The food was delicious! I had sweet tea and my friend had swamp water (iced tea and lemonade). Both good. The meal came with cornbread which came out first. It was moist and delicious and I could have eaten three pieces. My friend ordered the bar-b-que chicken with two sides (lima beans and collard greens). I ordered a side of ribs and  squash casserole and we just shared everything. I am not sure what prompted me to order ribs, because I am not a big fan of ribs, but oh man, were they ever awesome. I would order the ribs again. They were so meaty and succulent and flavorful. I would order all of it again.
The atmosphere is casual and comfortable and the server was a super sweetheart of a young woman.
And we ordered a desert sampler to go. It was a peach cobbler and a sweet potato pie. We ate them in our tent a few hours later, since we were too full to fully enjoy them at the restaurant. If you are in Beaufort area or heading in or out of Hunting Island you should definitely check this place out. Delicious food with great culture and history.
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