the restaurant that sits today started in 1858 and it was
actually called the Branch Eating House uh... which was a stagecoach diner if
you will
uh... and the actual Branch Eating House
it was moved to this location so it was a stagecoach restaurant that was moved
here
that dates back to 1858 presently we've been here August will
be uh... eight years
so my wife and i met in the restaurant business down in Charleston
and uh... she being from Branchville brought me here
and started this uh... 8 years ago in August
all my advice getting into this was just keep it simple and that's basically what
we've done uh... we do an array of seafood from fried shrimp oysters
scallops we do a couple of grilled fish salmon and a mahi typically
uh... then we do a grilled chicken breast pork tenderloin
we do an eight-ounce beef tenderloin here
then we acompany that with a lot of local produce
and we actually have people that come from Columbia as far as Columbia
we do a big draw from Bamberg of course which is the next down over Saint
George the next town over
Walterboro and then into Orangeburg
three United States presidents Taft
Hardy
and Roosevelt uh... ate in the uh... dining room here
since we've been here we did a spring catalog for Saks Fifth Avenue
they came down and did a uh... spring photoshoot which is really neat
one of the things i love most about living in Branchville is the small-town
no red light
and Edisto Beach is the closest beach and we can get in the car and there's not even
a red light between here and there and to me that's pretty neat