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Charleston's oldest downtown dining rooms, ranked for one dish by the Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice readers: the Queen Street winner, two harbourside seafood houses, a Meeting Street institution and a Queen Street porch.
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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in The Post and Courier and Charleston City Paper. Updated September 2026.
82 Queen · French Quarter
The Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice readers have given this Queen Street dining room the she-crab soup award five years running, in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, and Charleston City Paper named it best in the city for the same dish in 2020. No other room in the category has won it once in that stretch. Order the she-crab soup at the restaurant's namesake Queen Street address.
Fleet Landing Restaurant & Raw Bar · Downtown
A harborside room on Concord Street, next to The Cooper. The Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice readers put its she-crab soup among the finalists in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025, four of the five years in the record here, and Charleston City Paper made it runner-up in its 2020 she-crab category. Order the she-crab soup and eat it looking at the water.
Hank's Seafood Restaurant · Ansonborough
A seafood house at the corner of Hayne and Church streets near the City Market, and a she-crab soup finalist in the Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the three most recent years in the record here. It serves dinner nightly from five, with lunch added Thursday through Sunday. Order the she-crab soup, which the kitchen lists among its signatures.
Hyman's Seafood · Downtown
A Meeting Street seafood hall a block off the City Market, open daily from eleven in the morning. The Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice readers named its she-crab soup a finalist in 2022 and 2023, the two years it appears in that program's record for the dish, each time alongside the standing winner two streets away. Order the she-crab soup.
Poogan's Porch · Downtown
A converted Queen Street house a few doors from 82 Queen, on the same block and the same dish. The Post and Courier's Charleston's Choice readers listed its she-crab soup among the 2021 finalists, the one year it appears in that program's record for the category. The kitchen runs brunch from nine and dinner from half past four every day. Order the she-crab soup, and know the porch fills early.