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Trader Joe's is still No. 1 in the annual Wish List poll, but readers are clamoring for seafood restaurants as well Date published: 1/3/2010
BY CATHY JETT Marvin M. Owens of Stafford County loves seafood. Put a plate of spiced shrimp, fried oysters or king crab legs in front of him, and he's a happy man. And, Owens said, he believes others feel the same way. So his list of the businesses that he wishes would come to the Fredericksburg area included not one, not two, but four different seafood restaurants. And, just as he figured, he certainly wasn't alone. Seafood restaurants were among the most popular recommendations in The Free Lance-Star's 2009 Wish List of businesses that readers would like to see open or expand their presence here. Of these, Captain George's Seafood Restaurant was the clear winner. The buffet-style establishment, which currently has five locations in Virginia and on the Outer Banks, came in third place overall with a total of four recommendations out of the 88 that were submitted. Other contenders included Coastal Flats, part of the Great American Restaurants chain; Wilkerson's Seafood Restaurant, a Colonial Beach landmark; Chesapeake Bay Seafood House, which no longer exists; Red Lobster; Phillips Seafood; and Timbuktu, which, despite its exotic name, is actually a Hanover, Md., restaurant known for its crab cakes. Owens said he'd also like a Sully's Steak House, a Dale City restaurant with a bounty of seafood on its menu. He's in luck with that one. Mike Sullivan, who started and ran Sully's for 12 years, is opening a Sully's Seafood and Steaks next to the Mailhouse Plus in Southpoint I. In an interview with The Free Lance-Star last month, Sullivan said he's encouraged because "everybody's eyes light up" when he tells them he's opening a seafood restaurant. Restaurants of all stripes were by far the biggest single category of businesses readers said they wanted to see this year. Out of the nearly 60 different places readers recommended, more than half were places to eat. Cheesecake Factory, for example, tied with Stein Mart for second place overall with five votes each. That put the two, which are annually among the top five Wish List favorites, five votes behind Trader Joe's, the all-time champ. As Marise Allen put it in her e-mail, "#1 will always be TRADER JOE'S because it's the very best in the whole wide world!"
Date published: 1/3/2010
every new store or rest. brings even more traffic aren't we enough like northern va? feel like im not in the south anymore.
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