SeeWee Restaurant
Season 3 Episode 4 | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
On this episode of Backroad Bites, we see why when people make the trip out to the SeeWee.
Driving up the coast on Highway 17, after you pass through Mount Pleasant and enter the Francis Marion National Forest sits a blue building with a bright red roof. That building, a former general store, is SeeWee Restaurant. On this episode of Backroad Bites, we see why when people make the trip out to the SeeWee it’s like coming home for Sunday dinner.
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SeeWee Restaurant
Season 3 Episode 4 | 2m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Driving up the coast on Highway 17, after you pass through Mount Pleasant and enter the Francis Marion National Forest sits a blue building with a bright red roof. That building, a former general store, is SeeWee Restaurant. On this episode of Backroad Bites, we see why when people make the trip out to the SeeWee it’s like coming home for Sunday dinner.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ A lot of people can't find it because you always have to go just a little farther than you think it would be.
♪ See Wee Restaurant is located on highway 17 North heading out of Mount Pleasant.
The history of this building is over 100 years old.
It was built back in 1920.
In 1960, Mary Rancourt who owns the building now, bought this country store and continued to run it as a country store until about 1993, where she took over it and decided she's was going to run it as a restaurant.
♪ I started at See Wee Restaurant 21 years ago.
I came here part time and then Mary sat me down one day and said, "I want you to run my restaurant.
♪ With Mary's recipes, they're what you expect, when you walk into a restaurant like this and you want home cooking, something that your mother made, something that you expect out of Sunday dinner.
♪ The community has supported this restaurant for years.
They have always since we were considered so far out in the country.
It was the locals.
Mary always took care of the local people.
She supported the oysters, the shrimpers, you know, the guy plucking the crabs in the morning.
We have never been a restaurant that advertised.
We were a word of mouth restaurant.
There was many days we were wondering if we were going to make it, but then there were many days we were wondering how the heck we were going to make it, because there were people lined out the door.
♪ If South Carolina was one dish, it would be our pan fried grouper with our garlic shrimp.
We pan fry it, lightly bread it, and then we saute the shrimp and the drippings and a add lot of garlic, a lot of lemon, a lot of lime.
and we serve it over a fresh bed of spinach.
The spinach wilts down into the sauce, and it's just a great combination.
I have it on the menu every night.
See Wee restaurant is a family restaurant.
You feel that when you walk in.
You can feel that you are coming into your own home, because people know that when they walk in the door that the waitress will know their name, that when I walk out of the kitchen I'm going to shake their hand and talk to them.
I'm going to ask them how their dinner was.
When you come here, you feel like you're home.
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Backroad Bites is a local public television program presented by SCETV
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