What's New on Maybank: A Stonoview Resident's Guide to the Food Corridor Outside the Gate

Pull out of Stonoview onto River Road, take the short stretch up to Maybank Highway, and within ten minutes you are sitting at a counter that did not exist two summers ago. The drive used to be a means to an end. Now it is the end.

Most write-ups of Johns Island dining treat the island as one big category, with the Angel Oak as the anchor and the restaurants scattered around it like satellites. From inside Stonoview, that framing misses something. The restaurants are not scattered. They have clustered, and they have clustered along a specific four-mile run of Maybank Highway that begins almost at the neighborhood's mailbox. The everyday question is no longer where to drive for dinner. It is which of the new doors to open this week.

The shape of the corridor

A working list of what sits within roughly a ten-minute drive of the Stonoview entrance, organized by what is actually new versus what has settled in:

That density did not happen by accident, and it is worth knowing how the newest additions got here, because the backstories tell you something about the kind of food the corridor is now drawing.

The new arrivals, in order

La Taqueria by El Molino is the freshest of the three meaningful openings. The space at 2901 Maybank Highway had a short life as Colectivo before