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Seafood, chili, pasta and more -- four ways to avoid cooking at home along the Grand Strand this weekend

By Jason Rodriguez
Tammy Tarte of Island Bar and Grill Pawleys dishes out chili for hungry tasters. The 16th annual Chilympics Chili Cookoff and Festival draws huge crowds from around the Grand Strand to The Hot Fish Club in Murrells Inlet Sunday, October 11, 2015.
Tammy Tarte of Island Bar and Grill Pawleys dishes out chili for hungry tasters. The 16th annual Chilympics Chili Cookoff and Festival draws huge crowds from around the Grand Strand to The Hot Fish Club in Murrells Inlet Sunday, October 11, 2015. Matt Silfer for The Sun News.
  • Myrtle Beach Seafood Festival, 6-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6 and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 at Burroughs & Chapin Pavilion Place, on Myrtle Beach’s Ocean Boulevard, between Eighth and Ninth avenues North. Free admission. 843-855-0527 or www.myrtlebeachboardwalk.com.
  • Overflow Fellowship Church’s “Fish and Grits Festival,” 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 at Living Water Baptist Church, 1569 S.C. 9, Longs. 843-421-9531.
  • “Festa Italiana,” 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7 and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 in Myrtle Beach’s Valor Memorial Garden, on Farrow Parkway, at The Market Common. $1 admission ages 13 and older. 843-333-7523 or www.sonsofitalymb.com.
  • “Lip-Rippin’ Chilympics Chili Cook-Off,” for Surfrider Foundation Grand Strand Chapter, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8 at Hot Fish Club, King Street Grille, and Morse Park Landing, all on U.S. 17 Business, on south end of Murrells Inlet. Free admission. 843-333-2034 or surfridergrandstrand.org.

This story was originally published October 1, 2017 at 10:10 PM.

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