Kiawah's dining options range from fancy -- the Sanctuary's Ocean Room and the Ocean Course's Atlantic Room -- to plain, pool-side eateries such as the Grill, Night Heron Park, and the Loggerhead Grill, the Sanctuary. Children's menus, available at all resort outlets, feature hamburgers, chicken tenders, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, as well as mini-steaks and fruit salads. Depending on the outlet, the children's entrees range from $6 to $16.
Kiawah, we were told at press time, was in the process of "reconcepting," (an awful word), Kiawah's restaurants so some of what's below may have changed. Traditionally, foodies, including teens accustomed to fine dining and their families, reserve tables at the Sanctuary's Ocean Room for great steaks and at the Ocean Course Clubhouse's Atlantic Room for noted seafood. At both restaurants entrees range from about $29 to $40.
Jasmine Porch is known both for its bountiful breakfast buffets, including a Sunday jazz brunch, as well as its four course menu of lowcountry cuisine featuring such local delights as she crab bisque, fried green tomatoes, and McClellanville shrimp cooked with sweet peppers, onions, gravy and a side of grits. Leave room for the vanilla bread pudding dessert.
In addition to the poolside grills, for moderately priced fare, consider Tomasso in the Turtle Point Clubhouse. The restaurant serves pizzas and pasta and does a brisk take-out business as does the Town Center Market. Along with groceries, the Market sells sandwiches, pizza, salads and pasta to eat-in or take out. For a $35 fee and the cost of the groceries, the Town Center Market will stock your villa prior to your arrival, a service we find priceless after a long drive or a tiring flight.
Shrimper's, in West Beach's Straw Market, serves sandwiches for about $13 as well as seafood (entrees about $21). Kids can pick children's menu entrees like macaroni and cheese, popcorn shrimp and grilled cheese.
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