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Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood
Chesapeake
Seafood · Casual
A family-owned seafood restaurant on Indian River Road in Chesapeake, run by a fourth-generation Chesapeake Bay waterman family with roots back to the 1940s.
- Documented local sourcing
- 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 — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (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.
- Source: Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- identity verified — Visit Chesapeake — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood listing (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
- Source: Visit Chesapeake — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- address verified — Visit Chesapeake — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood listing (official city tourism site), checked Aug 2026
- Source: Visit Chesapeake — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood listing (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.
- Source: OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder (checked Aug 2026)
- hours verified — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site), checked Aug 2026
- Source: Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- seafoodOrigin verified — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site), checked Aug 2026
The restaurant's own site states "we catch and buy fresh seafood daily" — a mix of self-caught and purchased product, not exclusively self-caught — so recorded at the Chesapeake Bay rung rather than the stronger "locally-harvested" rung (which /CONTENT_STANDARDS.md reserves for product caught by the seller or a named local operation specifically, not a general "catch and buy" mix).
- Source: Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Visit Chesapeake — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- familyOwned verified — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site), checked Aug 2026
Self-described as "a family owned restaurant"; owner Ray Wicker Jr. is stated to be a fourth-generation waterman.
- Source: Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
- Source: Visit Chesapeake — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood listing (official city tourism site) (checked Aug 2026)
- historicalSignificance verified — Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site), checked Aug 2026
- Source: Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood (official site) (checked Aug 2026)
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