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Bubba’s Fish Camp and Smokehouse Grill is located at 1565 21st Ave. North in Myrtle Beach. Richard Caines/Staff
Monument at Grand Strand Medical Center honoring Dr. Andrew Schwartz. Provided
Bubba’s Fish Camp and Smokehouse Grill is located at 1565 21st Ave. North in Myrtle Beach. Richard Caines/Staff
MYRTLE BEACH — A Myrtle Beach restaurant group, in business for decades along the Grand Strand, recently opened a new venture not far from the shopping and entertainment complex Broadway at the Beach.
Bubba’s Fish Camp and Smokehouse Grill, located at 1565 21st Ave. North in Myrtle Beach, is the latest location for Divine Dining Group, a company founded by Jack Divine IV in the late 1980s.
Company officials said the new restaurant is a spin-off of Bubba’s Fish Shack, a staple in Surfside Beach for years; however, the Myrtle Beach location features an expanded menu as well as a unique way of cooking.
While the menu includes Lowcountry seafood that the group is known for, included options are dry-seasoned, smoked meats that are slow-cooked in a special smoker nicknamed “Sally.”
The smoker can cook 750 pounds of meat at one time and is located in a central area of the restaurant where patrons can see pulled pork barbecue, ribs and chicken cooked up close, which officials said brings a “campfire flavor” to each table.
Divine Dining Group officials said the building was renovated in an “upscale fish camp décor with wood and metal finishes, colorful fish and boats hung from the ceiling, marine lanterns and gadgets,” while honoring all branches of the U.S. military.
The building, which sits across the parking lot from Mellow Mushroom, most recently housed Bench Warmers Grill & Tap Room, and before that, a Tilted Kilt restaurant.
Divine Dining Group’s portfolio features 15 restaurants in Horry and Georgetown counties under brands including River City Cafe, Nacho Hippo Cantina Maximo, Ultimate California Pizza, Bubba’s Fish Shack and Pawleys Raw Bar.
The Myrtle Beach restaurant is open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information visit BubbasFishCamp.com.
A recent closure of an ice cream shop in North Myrtle Beach has resulted in messages to a long-standing Calabash, N.C. seafood restaurant with a similar name asking if it is closing too.
Ella’s Ice Cream shop, formerly located at Coastal North Town Center in North Myrtle Beach, closed on September 5 after opening in the shopping center in 2019.
But Ella’s of Calabash, a Brunswick County seafood institution for more than 70 years, recently said on social media that they are taking calls on if they are closing for good.
“We have been asked dozens of times if we are closing our doors for good,” a recent Facebook post said. “We want to put these rumors to rest and assure our amazing customers that we aren’t going anywhere! We are proudly going into year 73 and still have some fish to fry.”
The owners of the closed ice cream shop named the business after their daughter Ella, who died in 2014. They said there was a problem with a renewal of their lease which resulted in another business being offered the space.
“We certainly don’t hold anything against that business and hope our community won’t either,” the owners recently said on social media. “We don’t foresee ourselves having the resources to start over, so as for the near future, we won’t be seeking a new location.”
Ella’s of Calabash is named after Ella High, who along with her husband Lawrence in 1950 built a one-room restaurant in Calabash, a business that remains in the family today.
“We are saddened to hear about @ellasicecream in NMB going out of business and would like to wish the family the best,” the seafood restaurant owners’ said. “We love the way you honored your sweet Ella.”
Grand Strand Health recently unveiled a monument on its campus at the Grand Strand Medical Center to honor former Chief Medical Officer Dr. Andrew Schwartz.
Schwartz, who died last year from pancreatic cancer, moved to Myrtle Beach in 2016 to take over the executive position — leading the hospital through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a memorial event where his life was celebrated, a monument was unveiled in a garden near Grand Strand Medical Center’s South Tower entrance.
Monument at Grand Strand Medical Center honoring Dr. Andrew Schwartz. Provided
According to Grand Strand Health officials, Schwartz wrote a blog during his time in treatment where he wrote, “In the midst of adversity, we can make a purposeful decision to choose hope over fear and deny any reluctance to fight for what is most important to us.”
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Richard Caines covers business and courts in Horry and Georgetown County for The Post and Courier. He graduated from the Cronkite School at Arizona State University and is a huge Philadelphia sports fan.
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