Billy’s Seafood

One word… NASTY, stank ass nastiness to say the least. walked out and wouldn’t ever purchase anything related to seafood in this place. uggg.

Billys is a great place. You can always get the freshest seafood and they always have great prices.
Got some Littleneck Clams today, took them back and streamed them and ate them with some melted butter. Sweet and delicious.
And make sure that you try the Tuna Salad. It is a tuna salad on crack. It’s got huge chunks of fresh tuna and is seasoned perfectly.
Very nice and very helpful people working there.

Could not ask for better! Great, fresh seafood. We can not wait to see what’s local and fresh. Great shrimp, jumbos were delicious this week streamed up and spicy hot! Tuna steaks are thick cut and delicious grilled rate, of course!

Great service, very polite people. Changed my order twice and they were very accommodating.

the staff was very rude if you don’t want cell phone use in your business then you should consider posting a sign. the rudeness was unacceptable. very poor business practice. we will not be returning

We called around several places in OBX for crabs and everyone was out or said they were not in season. We called Billy’s and they said no problem. Picked up a half bushel of crabs in 20 minutes. They were delicious. Seasoned just the way we like them. Also all the legs were on the crabs, Billy’s knows how to steam them to perfection.

Extremely friendly mom and pop store. We visited on our way out of the Outer Banks to stock up on fresh seafood to put on ice for the 18 hour drive home. We will for sure return on our next vacation; great prices, great service and good selection.

What a great place to get a bushel of crabs. It is an annual tradition for our vacation and we went back a second time.

Always fresh seafood, and most is local. This is a family owned and operated, working seafood market, meaning the fresh product comes in the back, prepped and ready for sale. Also have a small selection of groceries and a wide selection of wine. Ice cold beer in the cooler, even gas for the boat. They even steam crabs and shrimp to order.

Billy’s is a step back in time. The experience is fantastic — where else can you buy fresh seafood, shrimp boat boots, and floor cleaner. The seafood is as fresh as it comes. We bought shrimp and scallops and threw in some tuna salad and coleslaw for good measure. We had the shrimp spiced and steamed and regretted it. The seasoning is much too salty — all salt it seemed. We will go back but will avoid the seasoning.

This will be one of my go-to’s anytime I come to OBX. We got their steamed shrimp. And they were delicious! Bought a pound of medium and a pound of large shrimp, medium to lightly seasoned. There were perfect! Melt some butter to dip them in and you are good to go. Hours are incorrect on Unilocal.They are open until 7, not 6.

A bit off the beaten path, but well worth the visit. The woman behind the counter gave very good advice to a novice (me) when it came to soft shelled crabs. It was much appreciated. A very good place to go for local seafood. Even the fresh, flown in salmon looked great.

Great seafood store. They had excellent prices on crabs and fish and the woman there had great advice for how to prepare. If you are looking to buy seafood to bring home, this is the place to go

We were looking for steamed blue crabs by the bushel. A lady on the phone told me the #1 Jimmy’s were so big that it would be cheaper to buy them by the dozen because there wouldn’t be as many in a bushel as I might be expecting. She was right. These were the biggest blue crabs I think we’ve had anywhere, and we’re from Maryland. They were delicious and heavy with meat.
We can be pretty sure that the crabs were fresh because when I called, she didn’t have enough to fill my order. It was a couple days after hurricane Sandy and she explained that «the guys are still out looking for their pots, but we should have enough by the time you’re ready to pick up your order.» And they did.
When we showed up to get the crabs, we did note that the fish smell in the building was quite pungent, but I suppose that’s to be expected at a seafood market. Besides, its not a sit-​down restaurant; we weren’t there to eat. Staff was friendly. They carried the crabs to the car for us and offered plenty of newspaper to lay out. And we couldn’t have been happier with the food.

Great place for seafood shopping. Stocked up on everything –tuna, lobster, CRAB LEGS, shrimp, clams… everything was fresh and a great value. Off the beaten path but worth it!

This is where we will get our blue crabs from now on. We purchased a bushel from O’neals in Wanchese at the recommendation of the fishing captain of our boat earlier in the week. We were very disappointed to get back to Kill Devil Hills and discover that we had 16 dead crabs in our bushel. Since we had 30 people to feed we needed those crabs and we weren’t about to drive all the way back to wanchese to get replacements. A little Google search turned up Billy’s.
I called and asked if they had 3 dozen live blue crabs for me and they said they did. 5 minutes later when i got there they told me they only had 2 dozen, they had just sold a dozen when I was on my way over. Because of that, they gave me a break on the price which was nice. The crabs we got were nicer than the #1 jimmies that we had gotten O’Neals and their prices were the same. It’s a great little shop off the beaten path in Kill Devil Hills and this is where we will get our crabs in the future.

BLUE CRABS! STEAMED WITH OLD BAY!
— grabs a mallet — I’M READY!!!
The people at Billy’s are so incredibly nice you just want to take them home with you!
We called in our order of 5 dozen but were told that Bushel was cheaper for an extra $ 10. OKAY — Bushel it is! What’s a Bushel… it turns out it’s an 18×18×24 (at the very least) box of 84 – 96 medium Crabbies! Total came out to $ 118, WHAT A STEAL!!! This sounds like a lot of $ but this would EASILY be over $ 400 at a restaurant, easily.
I’ve always wanted to do this, order out and dump them on a table at home with close friends/​family and go at it, and that’s exactly what we did. We had 8 adults eating non-​stop for 2+ hours and we barely made a dent through half the box. Billy’s allowed us to do this without traveling all the way to Nag’s Head (where the other Seafood Markets are). They advise you to take a bunch of Newspaper (free!) for home to minimize cleanup.
Some say that they go overboard with the Old Bay, but they really don’t. The crabs stay nice and warm in the wax lined box. If you are in KittyHawk, NC and craving crabs, this is the place to go — no contest.
Oh, and they have a ton of other fresh seafood as well — just call and ask!
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On the way home to NYC we called to order a half Bushel of Live Crabs to go. I had 2 people with me when I placed the order. When we arrived they were Steamed and seasoned. The lady was adamant she took the order and I said steamed. I guess at Billy’s, the staff and not the customer is always right. They also told us that Crabs would not last on ice for 9 hrs, we would need a refrigerated truck so I guess we lucked out?
When we ordered a Bushel, we easily had over a dozen each (for 8 of us), so we’re guessing 9 – 10 dozen for $ 118. For our half bushel, we had asked for it to be split evenly into 3 bags. They asked why and we explained they were going to 3 households. My bag had 16 crabs so that lead’s me to think we had a total of 48 which is 4 dozen for $ 69. This makes feel totally ripped off. Dropped them 1 star. So sad to be so disappointed, still a good price though.

Being from Baltimore i have very high standards for Blue Crabs. This place reminds me of the best places to get crabs back home, no frills and off the beaten path. Employees were friendly and i got a half bushel of steamed number one jimmies for $ 65!!! On top of that there were definitely more than a half bushel as there were 60 crabs all extremely heavy. I will 100% be coming back to this place next time i am back in the OBX.

I was born and raised in MD. Everyone vacationing with us lives in MD. We take our crabs so seriously, we buy them live and steam them ourselves. You can’t trust just anyone to steam the crabs the right way. I made a few phone calls and Billy’s had live large male blues for $ 50/​half bushel! GREAT price. I sent my husband and some of the other guys off to pick them up. They also came home with 1lb of shrimp. The crabs were gorgeous and steamed up perfectly. The shrimp were large and deliciously fresh. They added some mallets to our bag and we went to town. Next time, I’ll make the drive to see what else Billy’s has to offer.

After living on as well as visiting the Outer Banks for years, this is the place to get fresh seafood. Its a little off the beaten path, but well worth the trip. You can place your order in advance for larger amounts of oysters, crabs, clams and mussells. Not the largest selection but everything is super fresh — right off the boat. This week he had large and jumbo fresh caught shrimp, rockfish, scallops, flounder and tuna — all super fresh and awesome! We also ordered a peck of clams and a triple peck of oysters — very fresh as well with almost no «throw aways». He only orders enough for 2 days supply based on the season so its best to call in advance and he will hold your order for you.