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Freshly cooked blue crabs, a Chesapeake Bay species, piled on a table.

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A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill

Norfolk

Seafood · Casual

A family-owned raw bar and grill in Norfolk's Park Place neighborhood serving local and regional seafood.

  • Documented local sourcing
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Most recently checked: Aug 2026 — see exactly what was checked below.

Restaurant hours, menus, and reservation systems change often — confirm current hours with the restaurant directly before visiting.

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Verification

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  • operatingStatus verified — A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill (official site), checked Aug 2026

    Confirmed by successfully retrieving the restaurant's own official/tourism source describing current operations on 2026-08-09 — not inferred from any historical or local-favorite recognition. Restaurants are rechecked on a shorter, quarterly-ish cadence than farms/markets given how quickly closures happen with little notice; see /DATA_SOURCING.md.

  • identity verified — Visit Norfolk — A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill dining page (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
  • address verified — Visit Norfolk — A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill dining page (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
  • coordinates verified — OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder, checked Aug 2026

    Address-geocoded via OpenStreetMap Nominatim; the top result independently resolved to a POI named for this business.

  • hours verified — A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill (official site), checked Aug 2026
  • localSourcing verified — Pleasure House Oysters — partner-restaurant list (official site), checked Aug 2026

    Pleasure House Oysters' own site names A.W. Shucks as one of seven restaurants exclusively offering its oysters — a specific named local supplier for the raw bar. The restaurant's own site additionally describes using "local and regional seafood" for entrees generally, without naming those suppliers — that broader statement alone would only reach the "locally-sourced-general" rung.

  • namedSupplierRelationships verified — Pleasure House Oysters — partner-restaurant list (official site), checked Aug 2026
  • seafoodOrigin verified — A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill (official site), checked Aug 2026

    Own site states "we use local and regional seafood for our entrees, along with fresh oysters for our delectable raw bar" — general regional sourcing, not naming a specific harvester for the entree seafood (the raw-bar oysters are separately confirmed via the Pleasure House Oysters relationship, see namedSupplierRelationships).

  • familyOwned verified — A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill (official site), checked Aug 2026

    Self-described: "As a family owned business, we love being a favorite hangout in our community."

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