Bluffton Oyster Company

I hear they’re closing for renos January — well needed! Oysters & fried baskets are the best thing on the menu. Get there early as they do run out of the popular items — even baked potatoes? Great with kids — wait staff is awesome. They have limited beer selection but Oyster Bay Sav Blanc for great price. Always here when in town.

Nice & friendly, however the oysters were $ 10.00 a dz. At Kroger they were $ 5.99 (and just as fresh)!!!

absokutely great. fresh outta the river!

Bluffton Oyster Company is a great place to pick up local seafood. We buy oysters here multiple times each year. By the bushel or thier «selects» which are singles both are great, fresh, and little salty pieces of heaven. They also have great deals on crabs, shrimp, and other local catches. Fast friendly service. they own a restaurant too which is GREAT. Can’t wait till months with R’s in them to get our first bushel!

Soft shelled crab! What a treat! Great local sea food, friendly staff with good prices. The hardest thing was to listen to the country music! But I went for the food and wasn’t disappointed.

These are the best oysters I’ve had. Whenever we are in the area we buy a dozen select and a container of shucked oysters.
The women aren’t that friendly but one of the men took the time to explain the difference between clusters & select, then took me in the back to see them.
I also bought crab claws (cocktail style), they were very good.
I only wish I had bought shrimp there as well!

This is the only place I will buy seafoood in this area — unless I find fisherman selling his hard work for the day. There may be other places in the HHI/​Bluffton area but I don’t know about them — but I don’t need to worry about it anyway, right? This place is a little hole in the wall building right next to the ocean. When you walk in, it smells like the ocean. Sometimes it is crammed full of people and it is hard to find a place to stand — I am not the only one that likes this place I guess. Most important item here — the oysters. The Bluffton oyster is uniquely briny and special. I grew up in this area and had to spend many Sunday’s helping the family harvest our own oysters for the Sunday Oyster Roast we had. Thank God I can just run down to BOC and buy a bushel now! These oysters are big clusters and you will need to spend some time cleaning and are best for roasting, imo. If you are buying a bushel most likely you are planning on roasting them anyway. Appreciate them!

This is the only place that we buy shrimp. There are no frills and no BS here. The small retail shop offers fresh shrimp, oysters, fish, crab and maybe more. The place has become a bit of a tourist stop so sometimes there are lots of folks in there that have no clue what they are looking for, wanting or needing… I think they might be looking for t-​shirts and photo-​ops more than seafood.
We’ve only even bought shrimp here and they are excellent, every time. Staff is nice and straight to business. No complaints.

Such a great place with the best fresh seafood! The reason I did not give 5 stars is the staff could be a little more friendly and helpful.

So. Many. Oysters.
A dry-​erase board at the front exhorts, «Do not take pictures of ladies shucking oysters.» At that, I really wanted a picture of the sign, but skipped it in the spirit of southern gentility.
Our half-​bushel of oysters was… plentiful. And fresh. And muddy. Do *not* come here expecting to get aesthetically tidy little oysters to serve on the half-​shell over a bed of ice with a nice mignonette – these aren’t your fancypants big city $ 3.25 a pop kumamotos. These are for roasting. Thankfully, grilling oysters works too, without needing to dig a firepit in the sand. Even more thankfully, my husband did the superficial cleaning and grilling while I got to enjoy the bivalves of his labor. Mollusc score!

Half a bushel of oysters will run you $ 18. A full bushel will run you $ 30. But if you’re buying a full bushel then you’d better have a pickup truck to bring ‘em home in, and about half a dozen friends who really, really like oysters.
Half a bushel ended up being way more than I thought it would be, and was enough for 4 people for dinner that evening. About half the bag were clusters of oysters (anywhere from 3 to 10 per cluster), and the other half of the bag were lone, individual oysters. There were about a dozen or so muscles mixed in with our half-​bushel as well.
I would definitely come back here for fresh seafood the next time I’m in town.

This is WHERE you get the Freshest Seafood in Bluffton. Literally right off the boat. It’s a fun place to visit, especially with kids!