# Food & Dining search demand in Charleston THE SEARCH LEDGER · CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA · FOOD & DINING Every month Charleston types 1,021,870 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/charleston/food-dining#colophon) 458 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026 1,021,870 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026 $604K MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.18 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Charleston searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in MAY and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 71, February 71, March 99, April 98, May 100, June 98, July 98, August 93, September 84, October 87, November 75, December 74. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Charleston — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Charleston pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 458 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“big bad breakfast charleston sc”** at $1.68. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 450,000 | $0.42 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 60,500 | $0.38 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | coffee shops near me | 40,500 | $0.38 | 0 | transactional | | 4 | pizza near me | 40,500 | $1.26 | 12 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 33,100 | $0.27 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | hall steakhouse charleston | 27,100 | $0.51 | 59 | commercial | | 7 | hyman's seafood charleston | 27,100 | $0.24 | 7 | commercial | | 8 | okra grill charleston sc | 27,100 | $0.86 | | branded | | 9 | shem creek charleston restaurants | 22,200 | $0.39 | 33 | commercial | | 10 | charleston restaurants | 14,800 | $0.57 | 29 | commercial | | 11 | 82 queen restaurant charleston | 14,800 | $0.31 | | commercial | | 12 | snob restaurant charleston | 12,100 | $0.21 | 5 | commercial | | 13 | best restaurants charleston | 9,900 | $0.40 | 0 | commercial | | 14 | park circle restaurants north charleston | 9,900 | $0.50 | 0 | commercial | | 15 | restaurants west ashley | 8,100 | $0.38 | 0 | commercial | | 16 | the vendue rooftop charleston | 8,100 | $0.22 | | branded | | 17 | charleston italian restaurant | 6,600 | $0.47 | 14 | commercial | | 18 | peninsula grill charleston sc | 6,600 | $0.93 | | branded | | 19 | brunch charleston sc | 5,400 | $0.50 | 16 | commercial | | 20 | big bad breakfast charleston sc | 5,400 | $1.68 | 9 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Charleston food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 450,000/mo · $0.42 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Henry's On The Market 4.2★ 2,800 - 2 Tommy Condon's Irish Pub & Restaurant 4.4★ 3,000 - 3 Mac's Place 4.2★ 1,400 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 charlestoncvb.com - 2 tripadvisor.com - 3 ubereats.com - 4 yelp.com - 5 facebook.com LOCAL pizza near me 40,500/mo · $1.26 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 Gilroy's Pizza Pub 4★ 781 - 2 Benny Ravello's 4.2★ 723 - 3 Pizzeria Di Giovanni 4.3★ 1,400 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 timberpizza.com LOCAL - 2 tripadvisor.com - 3 locations.princestreetpizza.com - 4 baronispizza.com LOCAL - 5 locations.papajohns.com LOCAL Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Charleston The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Hyman's Seafood | 4.9 ★ | 50,646 | Seafood | YES | | #2 | Fleet Landing Restaurant & Raw Bar | 4.6 ★ | 12,091 | Seafood | YES | | #3 | Poogan's Porch | 4.3 ★ | 6,658 | Southern | YES | | #4 | Toast! All Day Meeting Street | 4.4 ★ | 5,890 | Brunch | YES | | #5 | Charleston Crab House | 4.5 ★ | 5,371 | Seafood | YES | | #6 | Magnolias | 4.7 ★ | 5,321 | American | YES | | #7 | The Rooftop at the Vendue | 4.6 ★ | 4,698 | Grill | YES | | #8 | The Rooftop at the Vendue | 4.6 ★ | 4,698 | Grill | YES | | #9 | Church and Union Charleston | 4.4 ★ | 4,473 | Restaurant | YES | | #10 | Husk | 4.5 ★ | 4,445 | American | YES | | #11 | Millers All Day | 4.7 ★ | 4,010 | Southern | YES | | #12 | 82 Queen | 4.5 ★ | 3,552 | Southern | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Charleston searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. okra grill charleston sc 27,100/mo the vendue rooftop charleston 8,100/mo peninsula grill charleston sc 6,600/mo grill 225 charleston 4,400/mo charleston grill charleston sc 1,300/mo vendue charleston rooftop 1,300/mo best coffee charleston 1,000/mo bonefish grill charleston 720/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Charleston asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Charleston food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat restaurants in Charleston, SC? What are some hidden gem restaurants in Charleston SC? What is the best casual dinner place in Charleston? What food is Charleston, SC known for? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? Where can I find good pizza near West Ashley, Charleston, SC? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? Who has the best pizza in Mechanicsville, VA? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Charleston metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Charleston search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Charleston, South Carolina · Food & Dining · 458 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 458 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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