Word on the street
What locals are saying
Established in 1974, The Library is the rare Myrtle Beach institution that has outlasted the strip's constant churn by leaning hard into old-world ritual: tuxedoed servers with decades of combined experience, tableside Caesar salads, flambéed Bananas Foster, and a Steak Diane finished at your elbow. The she-crab soup and Beef Wellington draw real loyalty, and the adjacent 88 Keys piano bar keeps the evening going with 200-plus wines and a live pianist. The criticisms are consistent, too — some find the maître d' can shade toward snobby, portion sizes on sides run small for the price point, and the current plaza location lacks the gravitas of the original address.
tableside theater as the main eventshe-crab soup and Bananas Foster earn repeat visitstuxedoed staff with deep institutional memoryprices demand a special-occasion mindsetoccasional snobbishness undercuts the warmth88 Keys piano bar extends the night
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