Redfish Grill

Description:

• One of the more talked-about restaurants on Hilton Head Island occupies a rambling villa that contains shopping as well as dining options. A popular pastime involves dropping into the on-site wine shop, selecting a bottle, and for a $10 corkage fee, drinking it with your meal. There are two postmodern, Asian-inspired dining rooms, or the wine shop has a few tables. The menu changes with the seasons, but might include Asian-style marinated tenderloin of beef with Thai cucumbers in a lettuce-leaf wrap; grilled seabass with a wasabi cream sauce and soy glaze on a bed of Udon noodles; seared jumbo scallops served with asparagus and lobster-studded macaroni and cheese; and two upscale and expensive burgers: One is made entirely with Kobe beef and accented with foie gras, pepper jack cheese, truffles, and port demi-glace; the other is crafted from chunks of Maine lobster mixed with shrimp. This restaurant lies in an isolated residential neighborhood inland from the sea, close to the Cross-Island Bridge.

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Recommended 2010