What) Dirty Dick’s Crab House is the brain child of Ken Hersey.  Ken had a long career as a building Builder/Developer in the Washington, D.C. area, but during a vacation to the Outer Banks in North Carolina he had an idea. "Crabs are a summer tradition in the D.C. and Maryland area but in the Outer Banks there was no local market for them. I thought, tongue in cheek, that 'One day I'll come here and open a crab house.' I told my friend, Dick, 'Wouldn't it be funny to open a crab house and call it Dirty Dick's Crab House?' I sat on that idea for 25 years." When Ken finally got around to it, he opened his first restaurant in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina and when that location did well, his second in Panama City Beach.

    "We have a risque little name, but we hardly ever get complaints about it. We might do 1,000 covers a night in Panama City, and 250 of them will be children." Families are welcome at Dirty Dick's, and children get their meals served on Frisbees they get to keep. An especially popular children's beverage is the Shark Attack where a small vial of grenadine is attached to a cup of Seven-Up. Children dump the grenadine in the soda and watch the red "blood" spread throughout the drink. Adults can look forward to a menu full of fresh seafood. Macgregor emphasizes they use American wild-caught shrimp and, "...no frozen fish. If it's not fresh we don't have it that day." (1)

    Where) 9800 Front Beach Road

    Why) Although we didn't eat here, I had to take a picture of the sign for personal reasons that I won't be going into at this time.