Wicked Tuna

Murrells Inlet, United States

3.7

Closed now

20 reviews

Accepts Credit Cards
Free Wi-Fi

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Telephone:
+1 843-651-9987
Website:
thewickedtuna.com
Address:
4123 US 17 Business, Murrells Inlet, SC, 29576
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Takes Reservations
Yes
Delivery
No
Take-out
Yes
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Accepts Apple Pay
Yes
Good For
Lunch
Parking
Private Lot
Bike Parking
Yes
Wheelchair Accessible
Yes
Good for Kids
Yes
Good for Groups
Yes
Attire
Casual
Ambience
Casual
Noise Level
Average
Alcohol
Full Bar
Outdoor Seating
Yes
Wi-Fi
Free
Has TV
Yes
Waiter Service
Yes
Caters
Yes

Today

Today 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Closed now
Local time (Murrells Inlet) 7:51 AM Monday, June 23, 2025

Business hours

Monday 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Wednesday 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Thursday 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Friday 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Saturday 11:00 am – 12:00 am
Sunday 11:00 am – 12:00 am

Description

Specialties

Welcome to The Wicked Tuna, Murrells Inlet’s premier waterfront dining experience! The Wicked Tuna is a place where friends meet for a unique culinary experience of handmade cocktails, the freshest seafood, steaks, and sushi, and the best views on the Marshwalk.

«Hook to Plate» fresh every day seafood — that’s the Wicked Tuna way. Every week our fishing fleet heads out to the Atlantic ocean sourcing the freshest grouper, mahi mahi, sea bass, and snapper off the Carolina coast. Every fish we serve is caught local by our own boats and then cleaned and prepped on-​site before it goes to the kitchen. From there, our master chefs prepare exciting culinary experiences matched only by our breathtaking views.

Our obsession with fresh seafood, top-​grade beef, and bold flavors shine through in our award-​winning, signature cuisine. Our master sushi chefs prepare plates of delicately sliced fresh sashimi and artful and creative sushi rolls using the freshest fish available. Pair your dish with a selection from our exclusive wine and sake list and you have an evening to remember.

We have created a unique culinary experience for you, incorporating innovative cuisine and excellent service from a one-​of-​a-​kind, dedicated staff. We invite you to enjoy a truly exceptional dining experience where the environment is enchanting, the views exceptional, and the hospitality is impeccable. Come get wicked.

History

Established in 2013.

The Wicked Tuna was started by three motivated local entrepreneurs who wanted to bring a new flare to the Marsh Walk, and deliver high-​quality, fresh, local fish and sushi in an unforgettable atmosphere. We have become one of the top restaurants in the area, and our team members reflect our reputation through energetic and knowledgeable service and hospitality. We hope you have your next meal with us, and we look forward to meeting all of you and exceeding your expectations!

Meet the Manager

Scot G.

Manager

Scot has been in the service industry for 36 years. After moving to Murrells Inlet with his family and having dinner at The Wicked Tuna, Scot so loved the fresh, innovative food and energetic, knowledgeable service that he applied to be the General Manager. Scot looks forward to growing with the company and guiding The Wicked Tuna to the greatness he knows the team is capable of!

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20 reviews of Wicked Tuna

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Place rating: 5
Commerce, GA
Place is large, so there is always a table available. Service is generally fast and the staff friendly. Amazing environment and amazing views. Bay view with outdoor deck right on the docks. Sunset is beautiful. Food is amazing, offering sushi and seafood. The oyster rockefeller is delicious and definitely worth the price. Love.
Place rating: 5
Tampa, FL
The Murrells inlet catch, crab wontons, and grouper imperial were to die for! Definitely on the pricey side, but well worth it!
Place rating: 2
Asheville, NC
Something has changed for the worse in the kitchen. Got served cold mashed potatoes and an undercooked steak. What a shame. This place used to be awesome! The ribeye is served on a cheap, plastic cutting board. Can’t hold heat. I can’t tell you how disappointed I am.
Place rating: 4
Dillon, SC
Oysters Rockefeller was perfect, and the kids loved the Rock Shrimp. We came in hungry after a day on the boat, and left satisfied. Portions seemed small for the price, yet everything was really, really tasty. I had the blackened filet and crab cake, and the filet was a perfect medium rare. Quality of all of the food was excellent. I shall return. Slightly larger entrée portions would have earned them a fith star.
Place rating: 5
Danbury, CT
Great spot, right on the water. They have a huge menu with tons of fresh sushi and seafood. Their «turf» options looked just as good. The waitress was friendly and attentive and had a great personality.
They have a dirty martini with goat cheese stuffed olives… Do yourself a favor and order 11 of them. They’re SO good. They also have a whisky drink infused with earl grey tea… Sounded interesting.
I got the surf and turf sushi roll. It had fried shrimp, avocado and cucumber wrapped in the roll and topped with a crab salad and filet mignon. Best sushi roll I’ve ever tasted. Didn’t even need soy sauce or wasabi, I finished the roll before I even realized they put it on the table for me!
I highly recommend this place, whether you’re with a group of people or just a party of two, it has a great atmosphere and is right on the boardwalk. What more could you ask for!
Place rating: 4
Montgomery, IL
Visited the Wicked Tuna on the recommendation of several locals during our family vacation. Absolutely AWESOME! Atmosphere very family friendly, great food and terrific staff. Kristen was our server and would highly recommend sitting in her section. Thank you Wicked Tuna for helping us celebrate our family vacation.
Place rating: 4
Pawleys Island, SC
As a local there are two places on Marsh Walk I’d go to during tourist season. Wicked Tuna is one of those two… the sushi is outstanding. I recommend the name sake roll… wicked tuna. The red pepper mahi is outstanding! The inside atmosphere is relaxing and fresh. The outside is wonderful in the right weather condition! My kids love the chicken tenders and my wife loves the ginger salad… wait staff is very attentive and work really hard! I recommend making a reservation on weekends as the place can get very busy. After dinner, grab a drink and walk the pier… great way to digest a huge meal!
Place rating: 3
Ridgeway, SC
I will endorse the staff, the sushi rolls and a couple other appetizers. Everything else is disappointing unless you’re a kid and get chicken fingers and fries, that’s pretty hard to screw up. Though everything is presented well, nothing is fresh. It’s all frozen low quality meat and seafood. I’m not going there again for anything more than a drink and an app.
Place rating: 2
Germantown, MD
The ginger salad was great but the crab legs, all kinds, had absolutely no taste. Never experienced anything like that before. But it was $ 38 dollars down the drain. Next time we go back to using Unilocal.No more guessing.
Place rating: 1
Princeton, WV
Unfortunately this was a HORRIBLE experience. Our waiter, Chris, was sat with 5 tables within 10 minutes and was unable to accommodate us. When we asked a manager to assist he came up with multiple excuses as to why we had not received our food or drinks. One side of or table received appetizers before we got our drinks. Then they received their entrees before we even received out appetizers. It was horrible!
Place rating: 5
Wichita, KS
It was amazingly delicious so good. Great view from the porch. Such good food. There was this sea salt thing stuff in the bathroom it left your hands so smooth and smelling great. The sushi was great to and the crab cakes were not dry or non flavorful it was actually really moist and flavorful.
Place rating: 1
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Overcharged my credit card an additional $ 65 for our meal/​tip. Called and asked for a manager, when I said what my call was about, I was hung up on. Avoid this place!
Place rating: 5
Vienna, VA
Probably some of the best seafood I’ve ever had, I got the tuna steak and it was cooked to perfection. Trendy and modern atmosphere — inside is very modern and trendy and dining is airy and awesome. My husband had stuffed flounder and it was fantastic! Cannot say enough good things about this place and the atmosphere. It is a little pricey but it’s a very nice restaurant and worth it. Would deathly come back and recommend. I love this area in general.
Place rating: 4
Columbia, SC
Really pricey, particularly the entrees, but really delicious and what do you expect for tourist central USA? The salad, sandwich and sushi menus are more reasonable. The fried oysters were spectacular and the spicy shrimp tacos were perfect!
The restaurant is really cool on the inside and fancy enough to impress a date. I will note that there are a lot of stairs up into the restaurant and I didn’t see any handicap accessibility but it was dark and I wasn’t really looking that hard.
I like that it was right on the boardwalk which allowed us to walk off some of the calories after dinner. There were a lot of live bands playing the bars around the marsh walk and the Goats were on the island!
The service is very good. During the busy dinner rush on a Saturday our waitress gave us personal attention and never went missing!
Place rating: 1
Westfield, MA
., are you kidding! Very Pricey! If you are going to charge «pricey» at least get the order right! I had the filet/​lobster., surf & turf., ordered med/​well on the beef ., it was Very rare,
When i tried to pay with my $ 100 gift card ., the waitor told me there was only $ 80 on the card ., i almost fell for it ., but opted to pay with another card. the waiter told me he checked twice & i would have to make up the difference., that sometimes the gift card gets «taxed» ., what a joke., i left the restaurant & checked the card balance ., $ 100 bal.
When i called the manager, his response., «you should have sent the food back»., that is definitely not what i do ., never upset the chef! Just never go back is my policy if i am not compensated to make up for this bad experience., too many other decent places around!
Oh ., spent the $ 100 gift card the next morning
Place rating: 5
Greenville, SC
Freshest seafood I’ve ever eaten ate myrtle beach! It’s well worth the drive to murrells inlet for seafood that was literally caught hours before your consumption! I had the lobster roll as well as the she crab soup both were extremely tasty!
Place rating: 2
Raleigh, NC
Went on Friday before Easter for the happy hour at 4pm. 5 of us sat at the bar where Adam waited on us.
The first round of drinks and food ordering went well. But, as more people filed in to the tables the service went downhill. We had to flag down the bartenders who were working both the bar and tables. Came across as a bit chaotic.
The happy hour apps were good. The tuna pizza very delicious. That’s where they are getting 2 stars.
The first beer I ordered was a Sam Adams nitro at $ 6.50 as displayed on the electronic board. They ran out and I ordered a different cheaper beer. When I got my tab both beers were priced at the nitro price. I told the bartender to fix it. When he came back I noticed the nitro was priced at $ 7. I asked him to get that fixed too. He comes back saying the manager did a 3% adjustment to the bill. All I saw on that line was -$ 0.00. So for the 3rd time I told him to fix it.
The manager had to correct the beer price in the system and re-​ring the ticket. Now it’s 15 – 20 minutes later. My time, the bartender’s time and the manager’s time are all wasted.
I hate it when a place over charges!!! I also wonder if it’s on purpose. My friend had stopped by the day before for happy hour and was charged regular price. He had to get his bill adjusted too.
Place rating: 5
Youngstown, OH
WOW. The best food I’ve ever had in myrtle beach and incredible service. We were waited on by multiple servers and our main waitress was very attentive. I highly recommend trying to sushi as an appetizer. The baked Alaska was one of the best desserts I’ve ever had!
Place rating: 5
Charlotte, NC
Simply the best mussels appetizer I’ve ever eaten. The richness of the tomato base, and the depth of flavor from the cream and smoky bacon puts this dish in a special category. Yum, yum, yum! We paired it with a crisp chardonnay and leisured our way through a cold, lazy afternoon at the beach. Excellent!
PS: Some grumble at the high prices. Really? You’re at the beach, in a prime location, and it’s NOT fried Calabash fare or a mile long trough at Crabby Mike’s. They’ve come a long way, baby! Enjoy.
Place rating: 5
Greensboro, NC
We had a terrific evening at Wicked Tuna. We wandered the Marsh Walk checking out the restaurants and saw the elevated deck at Wicked Tuna so we decided to hang out at Wicked Tuna for a couple of drinks and appetizers Then trying a different spot for dinner. Wicked Tuna has by far the best views in the Marsh Walk.
We started with drinks and three appetizers: Fish Bites, Calamari, and an avocado stuffed with shrimp then lightly fried in a tempura batter and smothered in a crab and roulade sauce
(it actually has a name, but since I can’t remember the name the description will have to do). The appetizers were so great we took a look at the dinner menu which looked great with numerous specials, soups, salads, seafood and sushi. So we ordered another round and stayed for dinner.
My wife had one of the specials, the Grouper Imperial which she proclaimed to be the best dish she has ever eaten. That’s a very bold statement cause I’ve seen some of the stuff she has eaten. My sister had the She Crab soup which was fantastic. I had their Shrimp and Grits which were very good. My brother-​in-​law had sushi which he loved. Everything was great.
The service is top notch. Our server Kyle was fantastic. Possibly the best waiter I’ve ever had at a restaurant. He truly took care of us and while he had several tables, it felt like he was our personal waiter. From my observation, it appears all of their wait staff is top notch.
The prices here are not cheap, but dinner at Wicked a Tuna is an experience worth paying for. I thought it was a small price to pay for my wife to have the best food of her life! You can dine for a very reasonable fare if you like. The Fish Bite appetizer and a salad would make a great dinner and not set you back more than $ 13.