Dashboards and Saddlebags the Destination Magazine™ Issue 010 January 2012 | Page 8

Wanna
Wreck Your
Diet?
S

eafood at it’s best is
not only a motto for
Big Daddy’s, it’s a way
of life. For 37 years
they have been serving up some of the best
seafood the area has
to offer. “We hear customers say all the time
that they have been at
the beach all week but
waited to get their seafood fix
when they got back home,” explains owner Freddie Lancaster.
It all started back in 1963
when Tommy Lancaster, Freddie’s grandfather, opened a small
hangout for the local teens in
Kure Beach. Everyone began to
call him Big Daddy after his resemblance to Burl Ives who had
starred in the hit movie Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof a few years before.
From there, it stuck. The hangout
grew into a restaurant appropriately named Big Daddy’s. The
restaurant moved to the Lake
Norman area in 197 Ё