The owners of Wicked Tuna have a new bar-restaurant in Murrells Inlet. See the details
The owners of Wicked Tuna have opened a new establishment that gives them three consecutive bars and restaurants along the marsh in Murrells Inlet.
Mojo’s Marina Bar & Grille, which is in the location that was formerly Marshview Seafood Kitchen & Bar on U.S. 17 Business, fully opened to the public Wednesday with a limited menu following soft openings on Monday and Tuesday nights.
The yet-to-be-named ownership group now has Tuna Shack, Wicked Tuna and Mojo’s in a row on the southern tip of the Murrells Inlet Marsh Walk. It also owns a second Wicked Tuna location on the 2nd Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach.
“I wanted to open two weeks before the fourth of July and give the staff an opportunity to kind of practice, I guess, before such a big weekend,” said Stephanie Parsons, the group’s chief operating officer. “Everything is going really well. We have been extremely pleased with how everyone in the inlet has responded and how much business we’ve had without doing very much if any advertising.”
The décor of the interior is still being completed.
Parsons estimates the seating capacity to be 300, which includes a large deck overlooking the inlet. The entire building can be open air since it has garage doors on all sides, and it has its own docks behind the deck. “It’s really a beautiful spot,” Parsons said.
Mojo’s will feature a lunch and dinner menu that has a number of baskets, including shrimp, scallop, oyster and chicken fingers, as well as steam pots.
Appetizers include lobster mac & cheese, fried green tomatoes, fried avocado, calamari and southwest corn.
Entrees include a ribeye steak, pork chops and blackened chicken, and sandwiches include a hamburger, crab cake and honey buffalo chicken.
“It’s a pretty good variety of food,” Parsons said.
The group that includes partners Erez Sukarchi and chef Haim Aisenberg acquired the location in late February, before the coronavirus shut down restaurants to inside dining. “We would have liked to have opened before, but the shutdown kind of stopped everything in its tracks,” Parsons said.
This story was originally published June 24, 2020 at 10:22 PM.
