Dirty Dick's Crab House

Ken Hersey is the founder of Dirty Dick's Crab House with his partners, Beany Macgregor and Jack Frestel. It has been a busy year for the Dirty Dick's Crew, opening up a new Nags head location (site of the old Slammin Sammy's) and the Big news is they ended their lease in Avon NC and have just completed construction of a beautiful new Restaurant! (That means no more dining in a tent in the hot OBX Summer!) Dirty Dick's Crab House is the Brain Child of Northern Virginia Native Ken Hersey. Ken had a longtime 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."