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SEASONAL SEAFOOD, FRESHLY COOKED.

Good Fish, That's the Hook.®

THE SALTBOX SEAFOOD Joint® Story

Ricky Moore created Saltbox Seafood Joint® in Durham, North Carolina in 2012. Drawing inspiration from classic American fish camps and waterside seafood shacks, Saltbox celebrates local, fresh seafood.

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founder & owner Chef Ricky Moore

With decades of fine dining restaurant and hospitality experience, Ricky Moore believes that ordinary, simple food can be extraordinary when executed at the highest level.

In 2022, Ricky Moore was awarded Best Chef: Southeast by the James Beard Foundation.

 

VISIT

Address
2637 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd. 
Durham, NC 27707
Indoor & Outdoor Dining

Hours
Tues - Sat 11am - 8 pm

 
 

Gift Cards

Purchase a gift card for use in person at Saltbox Seafood Joint.

Let us come to you

From rehearsal dinners and family reunions to company parties and anniversary celebrations, let Saltbox Seafood Joint® come to you! With our fully equipped food truck, bring the taste of Coastal North Carolina fish camps, elevated and re-envisioned, to your special event. 

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The Book

In sixty recipes that celebrate Ricky Moore’s coastal culinary heritage, Moore instructs cooks how to prepare Saltbox Seafood Joint dishes. This cookbook, written with K. C. Hysmith, explains how to pan-fry and deep-fry, grill and smoke, and cook up soups, chowders, stews, and grits and seafood. Moore has taken pity on us and even included the recipe for his famous Hush-Honeys®, an especially addictive hushpuppy. Charts and illustrations in the book explain the featured types, availability, and cuts of fish and shellfish used in the recipes.

Get Your Copy

 

The Tee

 

Original Saltbox Vintage Tee

Introducing the soon-to-be-classic Original Chef Ricky Moore Saltbox Vintage Tee. Screenprinted in Raleigh, NC by Red Bird Press. Available in S-2XL.

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Press & Praise 

For that dedication and talent celebrating the seafood and foodways of North Carolina, changing diners’ perceptions of popular and unpopular fish, lifting up and mentoring a new generation of Black chefs and business owners and becoming only the fifth chef in the state to win a James Beard chef award — the top honor in the restaurant industry — Ricky Moore is The News & Observer’s 2022 Tar Heel of the Year.”
— Drew Jackson, The News & Observer
Moore’s dedication to local seafood is at the forefront of everything he does, including his beloved fish joints, his cookbook and his UNC-TV mini-series. In recent years, he’s garnered national attention and become a face of North Carolina seafood.”
— Addie Ladner, Walter Magazine
Chef Ricky Moore does not play games when it comes to his passion for seafood. His popular ‘fish shack’ style restaurant Saltbox Seafood Joint®, located in Durham, North Carolina, is beloved by locals and critics for its elevated, seasonal menu that changes daily based on the local catch.”
— Jenn Barthole, Ebony
 
 

Join the crew

We are always looking for talented team members to join the Saltbox Seafood Joint crew! Start with this application.