Eat your way through Myrtle Beach: A local’s guide to Grand Strand dining

The miles and miles of salty, sandy beaches are, understandably, what attract most people to Myrtle Beach.

But once they get here, how can a region with only 350,000 permanent residents feed the 10 million visitors who come each year? Residents and visitors alike can thank the city’s whopping 1,700 restaurants. Myrtle Beach boasts so many restaurants. Myrtle Beach has more restaurants per capita than its high-class cousins across the globe including New York, Paris and even Rome.

Several factors aligned in the last few decades to push Myrtle Beach to the top echelons of the restaurant industry. For one, Horry County’s quickly growing population increased the demand for more restaurants.

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