Are you a northerner looking for some familiar foods in the Myrtle Beach area?

This deli in Murrells Inlet offers a taste of home for northerners.

According to the Horry County database on population growth, from 2011 to 2015 31,379 people moved to Horry County from the Northeast.

With these continually increasing numbers of northern residents relocating to the Grand Strand area, the demand for food that reminds them of their home also grows.

Gershon’s NY Deli Restaurant of Murrells Inlet offers homemade, authentic New York-style food that could make any northern feel at home.

Ireland natives, Marcella and Brian Riggs bought Gershon’s from the previous owners last October and have created a new menu that caters to the northern population in Murrells Inlet.

Marcella said her family lived in an Irish community in New York before moving down to South Carolina.

“I love Murrells Inlet, our son was in college in South Carolina and we dropped him there a couple of years ago and drove around looking at all the various areas near the coast. Due to the heat, we figured we needed to live near an ocean to get that sea breeze so my husband automatically fell in love with Murrells Inlet,” Marcella said.

She said all of the recipes on the menu are family recipes that have been collected over the years. Marcella said they home-cook all of their deli meats, including their corn beef. Some other dishes she said they are known for are the homemade matzo ball soup and the chicken soup.

Marcella said besides residents who are originally from the Northeast, Gershon’s also gets lots of tourists and bikers around this time of year.

“We have a lot of regular locals, a lot of northerners that have moved down. They come cause they like the taste of home,” Marcella said.

Gershon’s is located on business highway 17 in Murrells Inlet and is open Monday-Saturday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. They also offer a breakfast menu in the morning and bottomless mimosas every Saturday.