At a picnic table outside the Calabash Seafood Hut, a breeze travels up the hill from the river and knocks the edge off the mid-summer swelter. “The seagull bites,” said Seafood Hut manager Donna ...

We begin series of coastal stories from Brunswick County with two of the first, original seafood restaurants to open in the Seafood Capital of the World: Calabash, NC, near the South Carolina line. We ...

Though it is essentially just another way of saying fried seafood, “Calabash-style” certainly rolls a little sweeter off the tongue. The gospel of fried seafood has been spread far and wide, but many ...

This picturesque fishing village in Brunswick County, before it was known as the "Seafood Capital of the World," had another name. In the early 1700s, the site that is now inhabited by Calabash ...

A diner in Myrtle Beach has a plethora of Calabash seafood buffets to choose from — 11 to be exact — Original Benjamin’s, Captain Benjamin’s and Bennett’s, to name a few. While Calabash seafood is ...

Fried seafood is the main celebrity in Calabash, but the town’s mythology owes some of its fame to a star-kissed moment. Jimmy Durante, a superstar of the 1930s radio era and the voice of an iconic ...

The Seafood Hut is a last-of-its-kind restaurant in this most famous of Carolina seafood towns. Owned by the Coleman family, which started the first restaurant in Calabash, Coleman’s Original, The Hut ...