Two years ago, if you lived in Grande Dunes and wanted dinner on the water without leaving the neighborhood, you had one real answer: Waterscapes, inside the Marina Inn, patio seating, watch the boats come in while you eat. It's still a good answer. Kids twelve and under eat free with a paying adult, the dining room handles groups up to a hundred, and the sunset view hasn't gotten any less pretty.
But it stopped being the only answer in early 2025, and the options are about to expand again this fall.
Most residents already know 357 Raw Coastal Bar opened next to the Marina Inn, a short walk down the docks. Fewer have been tracking what's supposed to land right beside it: a $6.4 million, three-plus-acre brewery campus that's been under construction since late 2024, with an opening window that, as of this writing, puts it right around now.
The Marina's First Chapter Had a Name Nobody Explained
357 Raw Coastal Bar sits beside the Marina Inn, and the marina's own description of itself calls it the only restaurant in Myrtle Beach that sits directly on the Intracoastal Waterway. The menu runs toward fresh seafood, oysters, ceviche, tuna poke, plus gourmet burgers and small plates, and the draw is less any single dish than the fact that you can walk out of dinner straight onto the docks.
Here's the detail most people miss: the "357" in the name isn't a street number or a stylistic choice. The Grande Dunes Marina sits at mile marker 357 on the Intracoastal Waterway, the actual navigational marker boaters use to find the harbor. Once you know that, the name of the second project makes a lot more sense.
A Second, Much Bigger Chapter Is Arriving Next Door
357 Brewers is the sister concept to the raw bar, built by the same ownership group, and it's not a taproom bolted onto a parking lot. According to the South Carolina Governor's Office, the project represents a $6.4 million investment and is expected to create 35 jobs at the Grande Dunes Marina site. The Post and Courier reported the same figures when the plan was first announced in November 2024, and as recently as this July, Visit Myrtle Beach was still listing the opening window as summer 2026.
That's worth sitting with for a second, because summer 2026 just ended. If the timeline the company and the state have been repeating for almost two years holds, the doors should be open by the time you read this, or close enough that you could reasonably drive past this week and check.
What's actually going in, per the company's own site, is bigger than a bar. The plans call for a 10,000-square-foot brewhouse with a 15-barrel production system and a 3-barrel pilot system, indoor and outdoor bars facing the water, a retail shop, a walk-up ice cream window, a beer-to-go station for cans and growlers, and something called the Carolina Music Yard, an outdoor stage meant for live music and community events. There's also a members club with early access to releases and a private lounge, and the company describes seasonal markets and event pavilions as part of the regular calendar, not one-off launch parties.
357 Brewers was founded by brothers Nick Vaugh and Jesse Vaugh, whose hospitality group also runs Crave Italian Oven & Bar and Sol y Luna Latin Cantina. In its report on the project announcement, WBTW quoted Vaugh:
"This will be more than just a brewery. It's a community hub, a place where memories will be made."
Whether that holds up is something you'll be able to judge for yourself soon enough. But the scale of what's been built, three-plus acres, a working stage, a retail counter, tells you this isn't meant to be a stop on the way somewhere else. It's meant to be the destination.
The Golf Side of the Neighborhood Got Its Own Water View
If you live on the Grande Dunes Resort Club side and rarely make it down to the marina, there's a separate reason to notice this fall. The clubhouse recently went through a renovation, and Terrazza 19 opened as a new restaurant there, open to the public, with its own Intracoastal Waterway views from the opposite side of the neighborhood. You don't need to be a member or even a golfer to eat there. It just means the "water view dinner within a few minutes of home" option now exists on both ends of Grande Dunes instead of only at the marina.
The Rest of the Map, Filled In
None of this happened in isolation. The broader Grande Dunes area has picked up a run of other openings over roughly the same stretch, most of them from teams already familiar to anyone who eats out in Myrtle Beach:
- Salt & Lime, a modern Mexican-inspired spot with fajitas, birria bowls, fish tacos, a bar, and a patio
- Cantina Imperfecto, from the team behind Drift, serving modern Mexican cuisine with a heavier, bolder flavor profile
- Waterscapes, still the established anchor inside the Marina Inn, now one option among several rather than the only one
Put together, what used to be a single-restaurant neighborhood has quietly become a small cluster, all within a few minutes of each other, without anyone throwing a ribbon-cutting for the whole thing at once.
What This Actually Changes on a Tuesday Night
None of this is a reason to move to Grande Dunes. If you're already here, it's a reason to change what you do on an ordinary weeknight. For most of the last few years, "dinner by the water without leaving the neighborhood" meant one restaurant and one view. By the time the leaves turn this year, it should mean a raw bar, a full brewery campus with live music, a golf-side restaurant with its own waterway view, and at least two newer Mexican spots within a short drive.
The Grande Dunes Marina still has the same 126 wet slips and 1,200 linear feet of floating docks it always did, still protected harbor for boats up to 120 feet, still open to the public if you're coming in by water instead of by car. What's changed is what's waiting for you once you tie up or park.
If you've been putting off a trip down to the marina because you already knew what was there, it might be worth another look before the season turns. And if you're the kind of person who likes watching a neighborhood evolve in real time, whether you're already living it or thinking about what daily life actually looks like here, Alexandria Bevier spends her days paying attention to exactly this kind of change across the Grand Strand. Let's Connect.
