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Slip 53

4.6 (7 reviews)
Open • 4:00 pm - 10:00 PM
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Rich O.

Great to have a new seafood restaurant in Columbia. Great ambience, solid service, and delicious food.

Chocolate budino
MJ R.

This really is a 4.5 star review. Skip 53 is Columbia's first "real deal" seafood spot that feels like it could be in Charleston. A breadth of fresh life has been instilled into this newly renovated building on Saluda Avenue. Our server was great and extremely attentive. Reservation was at 5:15 pm and we were sested promptly. Clam chowder was delicious amd just what I needed on this cool fall evening. I would have preferred more clams and smaller diced potato chunks, but all-in-all, this was worth it. Broth was delicious, and it's a fairly large bowl of chowder and quite filling. Fresh oysters were on point and we're served with mignonette sauce, a jalapeño squeeze and lemon. Absolutely delicious! Flights of oysters are served in threes (3). The scallop ceviche was served over mashed avocado with a red wine vinaigrette and was on point. Freh, tangy and the flavor of the scallops highlighted this dish. The star of the show was the Fish & Chips! Three large planks of lightly battered cod and light crispy shoe-string french fries with rosemary. Probaby the best I have had in SC thus far...Superb!! The black squid ink pasta was good, but the pasta was slight over-cooked and the shrimp were tiny mini shrimp and we could not find a scallop. I would recommend d they swrve this dish with whole shrimp and scallop for a more esthetic dish to highlight the seafood flavor with the red tomatoes sauce. The chocolate budino was ezcellent. Well salinated milk chocolate with a sweet marshmallow topping with crunchies. The sweetness of the topping was the perfect compliment to the silky, alty chocolate. Slip 53 offers a ood selection of cocktails and a very impressive wine line. Its not a big list but ita a good list with reasonable pricing. Wines by the glass were very good. I recommend the Sancerre (white) and the Beaujolais (red) were both perfectly matched with the light seafood dishes we chose. And..cause we all know I like me a good tidy bathroom. Decoreatively, the ladies room was clean and had good towels. A few more decorations and an expanded vanity would have been ideal. Also, the exposed industrial sprinkler system does not match the modern, sleek design of the overall restaurant. This is a definite "can't wait to return". Slip 53 jas definitely raiaed the bar for Columbia...FINALLY! And it left me wanting a Slip 54, 55 & 56!

Tuna pani puri

Came for the first time last night. I was by myself so tried as many different things I could in one night! I had 3 each of the raw oyster selections for the evening for a total of 12. All were fresh and clean, although I will say my server attempted to name them on the plate and was 100% incorrect. It's ok, I know which is which. I also had the "Tuna Bombs" which I had heard a lot about. They were just ok. It's cute they are in pani puri but to me the flavor was a bit bland. Way too much avocado with just a tiny bit of tuna. I also had the scallop ceviche. This was tasty, but not what I was expecting. They are very small scallops, what you might call "bay scallops". They were pretty firm, having been in the liquid for a bit. I would not get this again. To me, the star of my night was the Hamachi crudo. I took photos of all I ate but I see many photos of all the other dishes but not yet the Hamachi. I will say, this photo does not do it justice. I loved the melon, the jicama and the Thai/fish sauce flavors. Honestly, if I had had this first, I would have ordered another one. It's that good. Lots of other cooked things to try on the menu but that will have to be for another day!

The Slip Burger with truffle fries! Also I had a glass of the Cab blend,Tre Leoni, which was awesome.

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