Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Restaurants: Five Places

Choose your Myrtle Beach oceanfront restaurant by what you want to eat, not just the view. Ocean Front Bar & Grill suits a Boardwalk hot dog, while Sea Captain’s House gives breakfast a beach-cottage setting. For a longer meal, RipTydz offers seafood towers and Damon’s specialises in ribs. Pier 14 takes you over the Atlantic for a smaller poke order.

Oceanfront meals by area

Restaurant	Area	What to order	Typical spend per person
Ocean Front Bar & Grill	Central Boardwalk	Footlong chilli hot dog and fries	$15–$25
RipTydz	Central Boardwalk	Shared seafood tower	$40–$65
Pier 14	Pier beside the central Boardwalk	Yellowfin tuna poke starter	$20–$30
Sea Captain’s House	North of the central Boardwalk	Crab Cakes Benedict	$25–$35
Damon’s Oceanfront Grill	Southern beachfront	Signature ribs	$30–$45

Choose Ocean Front Bar & Grill for a casual Boardwalk meal. RipTydz suits shared seafood, and Pier 14 a smaller stop over the water. Sea Captain’s House is the breakfast choice, while Damon’s suits a substantial rib-led meal on the southern beachfront.

Pier 14’s poke is a starter, not a full dinner. Extra food, alcohol, tax and tips increase the bill at any of these places. Sharing at RipTydz also changes the cost according to the tower and number of diners. If food matters more than the outlook, explore Myrtle Beach dinner restaurants for broader choices for a substantial evening meal.

Request an ocean-facing table, and arrange a fixed-time meal or group seating ahead. Outside seats expose you to sun and wind, while indoor seats offer shelter. A small order can make the setting part of a beach outing without committing to a longer meal.

Choose daylight for the Atlantic outlook. Myrtle Beach faces generally east, and sunset is west over land, behind the beach rather than over the ocean.

Ocean Front Bar & Grill

Ocean Front Bar & Grill’s footlong beef hot dog with mustard, chilli and onion suits a casual eating stop between time on the sand and a Boardwalk stroll. It comes with house-seasoned fries, so the order has more substance than a hot dog alone without turning the occasion into a lengthy restaurant meal.

The outdoor patio is the seating choice for a direct Atlantic view. It keeps the beachside setting central to the meal, rather than making the bar itself the reason to stop. Choose it when you want to sit down with food while keeping the ocean in sight.

The restaurant has been continuously operated by the same family since 1948. That long family history gives this straightforward hot-dog stop a connection to Myrtle Beach beyond its beachfront location.

Food is served daily from 11am until closing, making this a lunch or later-meal choice rather than a breakfast stop.

RipTydz Oceanfront Grille & Rooftop Bar

RipTydz Oceanfront Grille & Rooftop Bar is the choice for sharing a seafood tower as a restaurant meal. The tower gives the table a common order to gather around, so it suits diners who want seafood to be the focus rather than simply an accompaniment to a drink.

Its elevated oceanfront setting is the other draw, with the Atlantic outlook giving you a reason to linger over food. Agree on how you will divide the tower before ordering, especially if appetites differ. If you are especially hungry, leave room in your budget for additional food.

The spring and summer venue schedule runs Sunday–Thursday, 11am–1am, and Friday–Saturday, 11am–2am.

Pier 14 Restaurant & Lounge

Pier 14 Restaurant & Lounge makes the pier itself part of the meal: the dining space extends over the Atlantic, rather than looking towards it from across the beachfront. Choose it when sitting above the water is the main reason for your eating stop.

The Yellowfin Poke Tuna order is diced raw yellowfin tuna on coleslaw, with seaweed salad, cucumber wasabi, teriyaki, sesame seeds and crushed wonton chips. The combination puts raw fish alongside crisp vegetables, sauces and a crunchy topping. It is a different style of order from a cooked fish plate, and it suits you if raw tuna is what you want to eat.

For a substantial meal, add more food rather than treating the poke as a main course. That makes the choice about appetite as well as setting: you can enjoy the pier with a smaller order, or settle in for a fuller restaurant meal.

Food service runs daily, 11:30am–9:30pm, so this is a lunch or dinner stop.

Sea Captain’s House

Sea Captain’s House pairs Crab Cakes Benedict at breakfast with a beach-cottage setting north of the central Boardwalk. The usual Benedict combination puts poached eggs and hollandaise with crab cakes, making this a savoury, substantial start rather than a quick pastry and coffee.

The building began as a beach cottage in 1930. That history is part of the reason to choose it: your breakfast takes place in a converted coastal house.

For the outlook, ask for a window table in the Carolina Room. The windowed Florida Room also has beach-facing seats, and the outdoor patio faces the ocean. The windowed rooms offer shelter while retaining the view, making them useful when you want the water in sight without sitting out in the weather. A seating preference is a request, not a guarantee of a particular table.

Breakfast is served 7am–10:30am, seven days a week. Make it a morning meal before your beach outing rather than arriving towards lunchtime expecting the Benedict order.

Damon’s Oceanfront Grill

Damon’s Oceanfront Grill suits a rib-led meal on the southern beachfront. Its signature ribs come with the restaurant’s special sauce, and onion loaf is an accompaniment to look for if you want to build out the order. Choose it for a substantial lunch or dinner with the ocean in sight.

The raised beachside setting gives you a choice between open-air dining and an indoor outlook. The ocean-facing porch or deck is used for restaurant meals, so you can eat outside with the Atlantic in view. It is a dining space, not merely somewhere to stand with a drink.

Inside, the glass-fronted room looks towards the ocean. Slightly raised rear tables help diners farther from the windows see the water too. That detail matters if your party wants indoor seating: being away from the front row does not necessarily mean losing the outlook.

Lunch runs 11am–4pm, and dinner begins at 4pm and continues until closing. Both are offered seven days a week, giving you a southern beachfront option for either part of the day.

Sources & fact-checking

Checks against the sources below cover: opening hours, closures, and key figures.

• Damon’s Grill — opening hours
• Damon’s Grill — closures
• Damon’s Grill — key figures
• RipTydz Oceanfront Grille & Rooftop Bar — key figures
• Ocean Front Bar & Grill — key figures
• Sea Captain’s House — closures
• Sea Captain’s House — key figures