Charleston, SCShe-Crab Soup

82 Queen has poured the same she-crab soup recipe since 1991, rich, creamy and built on local crab and roe from Crosby's Seafood. The Post and Courier's Building Blocks series traces the dish through four decades on the Queen Street menu. Order a cup alongside the she-crab biscuits.

Fleet Landing has run out of a converted 1940s naval debarkation building on the Charleston Harbor since 2004, a menu the Post and Courier's 20th-anniversary piece says has hardly changed since opening day. The harbor view and straightforward seafood, she-crab soup included, are the draw. Order the she-crab soup with a harborside table.

Hank Holliday opened this Hayne and Church streets seafood house in 1999, now approaching 25 years near the City Market before its recent Columbus expansion, per the Post and Courier. The kitchen runs a full raw bar and Lowcountry classics including she-crab soup. Order the she-crab soup as a starter before the raw bar.

The Hyman family has run this Meeting Street seafood hall since 1987, when Eli and Aaron Hyman converted the family's wholesale business into a restaurant. The Post and Courier's Building Blocks series covers the kitchen's approach to Lowcountry classics, she-crab soup among them, a block off the City Market. Order the she-crab soup with a side of hush puppies.

This converted Queen Street house has run as a restaurant since 1976, a few doors from 82 Queen on the same block. The Post and Courier's review calls it a fine old Southern lady who still shows some spunk, built on she-crab soup, biscuits and Southern brunch. Order the she-crab soup or the chicken and waffles.