How To Eat Your Way Across Myrtle Beach

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The owner of Big Mike’s Soul Food in Myrtle Beach is also a city councilman, a church deacon, and a real estate agent -- so helping people is at the core of his work. The general manager at Croissants Bistro and Bakery went to coffee school and ice cream school. At Rivertown Bistro, chef Darren Smith’s lowcountry spring rolls are so popular, they paid for his daughter’s college tuition.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Sporkful is brought to you by Visit Myrtle Beach.
0:05.7	Take a bite out of the beach.
0:07.3	Plan a trip at Visit Myrtlebeach.com.
0:11.8	We saw a lot of it, and we run out.
0:15.1	People get upset.
0:16.7	I'm serious.
0:18.4	We'll make sure to try some of that.
0:22.4	This is the Sporkful.
0:23.9	It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.
0:25.8	I'm Dan Pashman.
0:26.9	Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people.
0:30.7	This entire episode is sponsored by Visit Myrtle Beach.
0:33.8	The city has more than 2,000 restaurants along 60 miles of beach. So when they asked me to
0:38.7	come down and eat my way across the city, I was like, I'm on the next flight. Of course,
0:43.6	I did some research to find not only the best places, but a good representation of the variety
0:48.0	of the food scene. And that's what you're going to hear today. So my first stop, Big Mike's Soul Food.
0:54.8	So you're the Big Mike of Big Mike's?
0:57.0	I am the Big Mike, yes, sir.
0:59.0	Morning rage right here in Murder Beach.
1:01.1	He's not just the restaurant's namesake.
1:02.7	Mike has a variety of other titles.
1:04.7	Now, Mike, in addition to being the chef and co-owner along with your wife of Big Mike's
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