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Blue Pete's Restaurant
Virginia Beach · Pungo area
Seafood, American · Casual upscale
A waterfront seafood restaurant in the rural Pungo area of Virginia Beach, established in 1972 on the site of a former marina and fish house.
- Local favorite
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.
Verification
Each fact below is checked and dated independently — a status here covers only that specific field, never the whole listing.
- operatingStatus verified — Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site), checked Aug 2026
Confirmed by successfully retrieving both the restaurant's own site and the official city tourism listing describing current operations on 2026-08-09.
- Source: Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- identity verified — Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site), checked Aug 2026
- Source: Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- address verified — Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
- Source: Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- hours verified — Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
Virginia Beach's own tourism listing describes it as "open for dinner only" — used as the basis for this restaurant's mealPeriods categorization; an earlier, non-directly-fetched search summary suggested a weekend brunch service, but that could not be confirmed against any directly retrieved source and was not used.
- Source: Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- coordinates verified — OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder — Blue Pete's Restaurant, checked Aug 2026
Address-geocoded via OpenStreetMap Nominatim; the top result independently resolved to a business-named POI for this restaurant.
- Source: OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder — Blue Pete's Restaurant (checked Aug 2026)
- communityArea verified — Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
Three independent sources agree: the restaurant's own site describes itself in "the Pungo area"; Virginia Beach's own tourism listing places it "in the countryside of the Pungo community"; the geocoder's own place hierarchy independently names "Pungo, Virginia Beach."
- Source: Visit Virginia Beach — Blue Pete's Restaurant listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Virginia Beach Restaurant Association — Blue Pete's Restaurant member page (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder — Blue Pete's Restaurant (checked Aug 2026)
- familyOwned verified — Virginia Beach Restaurant Association — Blue Pete's Restaurant member page, checked Aug 2026
Owned and operated by the Cleanthes family (twin brothers Nicholas and Aristotle) since 2011, per the restaurant's own site and the Virginia Beach Restaurant Association.
- Source: Virginia Beach Restaurant Association — Blue Pete's Restaurant member page (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- historicalSignificance verified — Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site), checked Aug 2026
A specifically-dated, decades-long operating history from the restaurant's own dedicated history page — not a self-praise superlative like "locals' secret," which was deliberately not used as the basis for this claim.
- Source: Blue Pete's Restaurant — "Our Story" (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- localSourcing: not confirmed
Neither the restaurant's own site nor the tourism/association listings researched state a specific local-sourcing practice beyond general "fresh seafood" language — left unconfirmed rather than upgraded from that general phrase.
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