Got to give this Food Lion five stars today. This is the only grocery store on Edisto Island. It's…read morea small Food Lion and likely the smallest one I've ever seen. It's amazingly well stocked and the food prices are not jacked up just because this is a resort community. I got what seems like a good deal on some manager's specials steaks. Nice store and friendly store associates. I recommend!

Very nice grocery store. It's the only one near Edisto Beach so they were well-stocked with…read moreeverything you could need. Will definitely return the next time I'm in the area!

I visited Cherry Point Seafood Company in Wadmalaw last week. It is right off of highway 700…read more There is parking on the gravel lot by the store front. It doesn't look like a fancy store because it's not. This is as close to the water as you can get and the shrimp are just hours old when you buy them. I ordered 1 lb of jumbo shrimp for $10. They bagged them on ice for the drive home. They take credit cards. The staff is very polite and efficient. This is the freshest shrimp I have found. You have to try Cherry Point Seafood if you are in the Charleston area. You will.not be disappointed. I highly recommend them!

As fresh as you can get! Right off the boat! We always purchase the large, headless shrimp for…read moretacos, shrimp cocktail, seafood boils or served with homemade pasta. It's absolutely delicious and the price is unbeatable! If you're lucky you will see a school of dolphins near the boats. So picturesque!

For anyone visiting Charleston or passing through the area, I highly recommend stopping in at the…read moreonly Tea Plantation in North America. There is a trolly tour that's offered for about $18/pp which takes you around the plantation. Since we arrived late in the day, we opted not to do the trolly tour, but instead, toured the gift shop, sampled all the hot and cold teas (I think there were 12 samples), and took the 15 minute FREE factory tour. The teas? delicious! The tour? Super educational! It was great learning how tea grows, harvested, and processed. Whether you're a tea drinker or not, you will love stopping here. And if you're not in a rush, go sit in a rocker under the trees, or at one of the many picnic tables. Enjoy the fresh air and the sound of the birds. You won't be disappointed!

I visited the Charleston Tea Garden with a large group last weekend, when I was visiting Charleston…read morefor a birthday celebration for a friend. I'm not sure if it's the only tea plantation in America or just the oldest (I haven't been able to figure it out on Google either), but it's certainly a unique experience - tea grown in the United States! When you visit, there are several different things you can do. They offer a Factory Tour (free), where you walk past windows looking onto the factory floor and stopping at different TVs where a video about the history of the Charleston Tea Garden is played in portions at each stop/TV. There's also a trolley tour you can book. The trolley tour is a narrated tour through the tea fields, including a stop at the greenhouse. The offer a Tea Bar in their gift shop, where you can sample hot and iced teas made from their teas and shop for other souvenirs and gifts. It's a really unique experience, and I learned a lot. For example, I didn't realize that green, black, white, and Rooibos teas all come from the same leaves/plant (Camellia sinensis) - the differences come from the part of the leaf (white tea is made from young leaves) or the processing of the leaves (green tea comes from unoxidized leaves, while black tea leaves are fully oxidized)! But the experience is pretty dated - the factory tour in particular! The videos were really dated and hard to hear with some many people in the area where the videos played. And one TV - the last one - just stopped playing the video, so we missed the end of the "tour." The trolley tour was interesting but would probably be better enjoyed in the spring or summer when things are more lush and green. It was a little gray and dry in the winter. It's worth a stop if you're in the area and want to learn about tea (some parts of the experience are free, so you can just pop in for a tea tasting and a sit on the rocking chairs on their porch), but I wouldn't say you need to go out of your way to visit unless you're going to be in the area.