Daniel B.
Yelp
Nectar Farm Kitchen was great. We found this place on Yelp. The restaurant's high rating - 4.5 stars with over 300 reviews - was spot-on. We came here for brunch and it was one of the best meals I've had on Hilton Head Island. I give this place 4.5 stars rounded up to 5.
Nectar Farm Kitchen opened in February 2021 in the Harris Teeter shopping center just outside the Greenwood Drive entrance to Sea Pines. A second Nectar opened in Bluffton in January 2022. The restaurants are part of Hilton Head's SERG Restaurant Group, a group that includes old-school Giuseppi's pizza and popular, award-winning Skull Creek Boathouse. I think SERG is *the* restaurant group on the island. For example, their catering arm caters the RBC Heritage PGA Tour event at Harbour Town.
This Nectar location shares a patio and restrooms with another SERG restaurant, Marley's Shrimp & Burger Shack. If you're at Nectar and need to use the restroom, you have to go back outside and enter the Marley's building.
The restaurant looks great. It's got a clean, modern design with a "farmstead" feel. The vibe was welcoming, casual, and laid back. Our group of five dined inside. I felt very comfortable and relaxed. The space is sizable with a few different seating areas. It works well with groups.
As the name implies, Nectar is a farm-to-table restaurant. A lot of the kitchen's ingredients come from local (Lowcountry) and regional (Southern) farms. During our visit, there was both a daily specials menu with a decent selection of food (e.g., combos, fruits and vegetables) and drink (e.g., cocktails, local beer, different cold brew coffee flavors) and a regular menu. The regular menu had an extensive list of breakfast, brunch, and lunch foods with several contemporary takes on American classics. For example, there were five kinds of Eggs Benedict (one made with deviled crab cakes) and a shrimp melt sandwich made with shrimp salad and local Gouda cheese.
Below is most of what we ordered. It should also give you an idea on pricing.
Starters
* Biscuit Basket ($7.50) - buttermilk biscuits, sweet potato biscuits, house-turned butter, seasonal jam, and local honey
* Biscuits & Sawmill Gravy ($6) - buttermilk biscuit and sawmill gravy
* Deviled Eggs ($6) - orange marmalade and chicken cracklings
* Deviled Crab Balls ($13.75) - Charlie's Dock Sauce
Eggs
* One Southern Breakfast ($11.50) with local farm eggs, country sausage patties, Carolina Plantation grits, and a buttermilk biscuit
* Another Southern Breakfast ($11.50) with local farm eggs, "true country ham," hash browns, and a buttermilk biscuit
* Dr. Joe's Duck Hash ($18) - pulled roast duck, seasonal root vegetables, over-easy local farm egg, duck cracklings, green onions, and a sweet potato biscuit
Biscuit Bennies
* Lowcountry Fried Bird ($14.75) - buttermilk biscuit, fried chicken breast, poached local farm eggs, sawmill gravy, and hash browns
Fixins
* Local Farm Eggs (2 for $3.50) plus cheese
* Country Sausage Patties (2 for $4)
* Thick Cut Bacon (3 for $4)
Coffees & Teas and Beverages
* Local Nitro Cold Brew Coffee with Salted Caramel Cream ($5.50)
* Blood Orange Juice ($4)
Overall, I thought the food and drink were delicious. Everything was fresh, high-quality, and hit the spot. I tried everything listed above except for the Deviled Crab Balls, true country ham, and Lowcountry Fried Bird. Simply put, I left Nectar feeling full, happy, and satisfied. This is gratifying comfort food, some of it with a modern twist. For example, the Deviled Eggs were served with square-shaped egg whites and the egg-yolk-filling piped on top with tiny garnishes. The eggs looked fun and unique and they were quite tasty too.
I loved the Biscuits & Sawmill Gravy. I love biscuits and gravy in general. Some things that made Nectar's version different from traditional biscuits and gravy were the shapes of the biscuits (square) and color (more of a golden yellow) and flavor of the gravy. Nectar's biscuits and gravy were super flavorful. The texture of the biscuits was on point, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. And the gravy was creamy and delectable.
Thinner versions of the buttermilk biscuits are what they used for our biscuits and gravy. I enjoyed them equally to the sweet potato biscuits. I think the butter, jam, and honey are all musts. The sweet potato biscuits also had wonderful texture.
I also really enjoyed the country sausage patties, Carolina Plantation grits, and bacon. The sausage patties were extra savory, the grits had perfect consistency and tasted terrific (more complex flavors than a typical restaurant serving of grits), and the bacon was thick, relatively lean, and appetizingly chewy. The duck hash was creative and very filling. I recommend it.
As for the drinks, the Local Nitro Cold Brew Coffee with Salted Caramel Cream was excellent. A real treat. Bold and flavorful, sweet but not too sweet. The Blood Orange Juice was pressed in-house, cold, and refreshing.
Service was fantastic.