It's a wooden shack on Shem Creek that's been doing one thing well for a long time: cold beer and fresh lowcountry seafood in the most casual way possible. You can show up in shorts and a t-shirt, which Condé Nast pointed out is the whole point in a city with this many white tablecloths, and the food is standard fried-seafood fare done without trying to be anything else. The name comes from a guy who ran an ice-and-fish-packing business on the creek for decades before retiring, which is the kind of local history you only get on a place this old.
The part people remember is the rooftop: a little elevated deck up in the tree line where the sunsets over Shem Creek are genuinely worth a trip to the island. It's the kind of spot you go to at the end of a day, beer in hand, watching the water and the herons. It's not the most exciting room in Mount Pleasant, but it's consistently one of the best, and the price is right.