Big Sam's Raw Bar
Big Sam's Raw Bar
2-eggs, any style, with choice of bacon, sausage patties or ham, hashbrowns, toast, or a biscuit.
Won best pancakes in tidewater! Made fresh every day from sam's grandma's recipe. 3-buttermilk pancakes with choice of bacon, sausage patties or ham with syrup and butter.
One egg, Parmesan-grilled tomato, American cheese and choice of bacon, ham or sausage patty on a grilled potato roll.
Short stack.
2-eggs, any style and 2 pancakes with syrup and butter.
3-eggs any style, 3-hot buttermilk pancakes, choice of bacon, sausage patties, or ham, hashbrownsand toast or a biscuit, with syrupand butter.
White gravy, 2-eggs any style, hashbrowns and toast or biscuit.
A classic burrito, with your choice of ham, sausage, or bacon with egg and cheese served with hashbrowns, salsa and sour cream.
2-eggs, any style, with toast, or biscuit and choice of bacon, sausage patties or ham.
3-eggs, any style, hashbrowns and a jumbo lump crabcake with choice of toast or biscuit.
Chorizo and surry sausage in a delicious Southern gravy smothering 2 biscuits.
4-pieces of French toast with your choice of bacon, sausage patties, or ham, served with syrup and butter.
A large bowl of grits with jumbo gulf shrimp, sauteed pepper and onion, crumbled bacon, topped with shredded cheese.
Served with hash browns and choice of toast or biscuit. Choose any 2 items: diced onions, diced green peppers, ham, sausage, bacon, philly steak, mushrooms, shredded cheddar-jack cheese mix.
With all the fixin's.
Fried and served with French fries.
Served with mashed potatoes, gravy and 1 basic side.
Fried and served with French fries and cole slaw.
Fresh tuna slow cooked in a blackend spice tomato sauce. Served in hard blue corn tortillas, with lettuce, cheese, charro beansand pico de gallo.
Two soft tacos made up of diced jumbo shrimp, sauteed peppers, onions, tomatoes and spices, served with cheese, charro beans and pico.
Bay fries, mashed potatoesand gravy, cole slaw, charro beans (pinto beans slow cooked with pork and spices).
Sauteed baby spinach, sauteed vegetable medley steamed broccoli sauteed asparagus.
A hot dip made of lump blue crab, old bay seasoning, 3 kinds of cheese and sam's spice blend. Served with toasted pita wedges. Chicks dig it.
Choose from Barbeque pork, Barbeque chicken, grilled steak, or blackened tuna. Served with housemade salsa and cilantro.
Fried and served with Cajun aioli.
Boneless chicken breast, deep fried! Served with crisp celery and our housemade bleu cheese or ranch dressing.
Boneless chicken breast blackened in our iron skillet! Served with crisp celery and our housemade bleu cheese or ranch dressing.
Jumbo gulf shrimp, fried and tossed in our hometown formula" and served with housemade ranch or bleu cheese dressing.
Boneless chicken breast, grilled over an open flame! Served with crisp celery and our housemade bleu cheese or ranch dressing.
New England lobster, roasted corn, fresh basil, herb-fried tomato and balsamic syrup.
Lightly breaded, fried and served with spicy marinara.
Jumbo chicken wings deep fried, then fire-grilled and tossed in our "hometown formula, " served with housemade bleu cheese dressing and crisp celery. The locals' favorite!
Baby greens, roma tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, red onions and cheddar-jack cheese.
Clams, bacon, potatoes, celery and onion, in a spicy clear broth.
Iceberg lettuce, Bermuda onions, roma tomatoes, bleu cheese crumbles and bacon, topped with a balsamic reduction.
Our homemade she crab served with fresh local jumbo lump on top.
With baby greens, carrots, cucumbers and red onion.
Select oysters, lightly floured and golden fried.
Fresh fried Atlantic mahi with American cheese, served with tartar sauce.
Lobster claw and knuckle salad with roasted corn, bacon, lettuce and tomato on ciabatta bread.
Served with our housemade slaw.
Baby spinach, red pepper mayo, balsamic syrup on ciabatta bread.
100% jumbo lump blue crab and spices, big and meaty.
With sauteed onions, peppers and mozzarella cheese on an amoroso roll.
Herb fried Parmesan tomatoes and portabella with baby spinach on ciabatta bread.
Your choice of fresh Atlantic mahi or yellowfin tuna; grilled, blackened, sprinkled with lemon-pepper or fried.
Grilled onions, sauteed mushrooms, herb fried tomato and bleu cheese, topped with fresh jumbo lump crab.
Blackened in our iron skillet and topped with bleu cheese crumbles on a sesame seed bun.
American cheese on a sesame seed bun.
Grilled onions, bacon, cheddar jack cheese on buttered potato bread.
With American cheese.
On a sesame seed bun.
Stir fried vegetables and roasted cashews in a soy reduction, with pickled ginger and wasabi aioli.
Served with peppers, onions, salsa, sour cream, cheddar jack cheese shredded lettuce and spices and flour tortillas chicken.
Fried flounder, red cabbage, pineapple salsa and cilantro-lime white sauce in flour tortillas; served with charro beans.
Soft tacos made up of diced jumbo shrimp, sauteed peppers, onions, tomatoes and spices, with cheese, charro beans and pico de gallo.
With charro beans, baby spinach, pineapple salsa and spicy chili sauce.
Your choice of meat with cheese, rice, charro beans, peppers, onions and spices, wrapped in a flour tortilla with salsa and sour cream. Chicken.
Fresh tuna slow cooked in a blackend spice tomato sauce. Served in hard blue corn tortillas, with lettuce, cheese, charro beansand pico de gallo.
One pound meatloaf dinner, mashed potatoes, gravy and 1 basic side.
Golden fried or broiled.
Yellowfin tuna or Atlantic mahi; broiled, grilled, blackened, or seasoned with lemon-pepper.
4 jumbo shrimp, 3 sea scallops and jumbo lump crab imperial all broiled with lemon butter white wine. Served with mashed potatoes and broccoli.
Jumbo shrimp sauteed and tossed with a 4 cheese cream sauce with penne pasta. To die for.
100% jumbo lump blue crab and spices the locals' favorite! Big and meaty.
Jumbo chicken sauteed and tossed with a 4 cheese cream sauce with penne pasta. To die for.
Lightly floured oysters fried until golden brown.
Tender clam strips fried until golden brown.
Apple, orange, grapefruit, cranberry, pineapple.
Raw dozen clams
Raw dozen oysters
Front of restaurant
Ramp to get in
Hatteras Clam Chowder
a totem pole
Menu
Indoor table side view on the inlet
Hot Blue Crab Dip
outside
Location
Beer menu
Tables by the water
Outside
View from table
outside
outside
Fried Shrimp
Jumbo Lump Blue Crab Balls
Huge wings! - get them double grilled!
Raw oysters
Our favorite drink. Painkiller
Fish strips. Yummmm
Cassy P.
Nov 27, 2024
Awesome restaurant delicious Seafood highly recommend the sheet crab soup! Service was wonderful and the atmosphere is rustic Beach bar and very casual but they make excellent cocktails
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Drexel C.
Sep 13, 2024
Food: Calm Chowder was a little salty however there were plenty of of clams in the chowder. Also shared the Big Inlet platter. The food came out hot and the seafood was very good. My wife and I shared a Big Long Island iced tea. Good Drink. Plate portions are good. Ambiance: it is loud. Inside. However it is expected Service: was good. Our waitress was attentive and not overbearing.
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Jennifer A.
Feb 22, 2025
Been coming here regularly since its debut in 1996. It's my kind of place: a small dive bar with good food.
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Alma C.
Dec 1, 2024
Cocktail sauce was amazing! Oysters were good. Wings during the happy hour were also good, but it seemed like the clams we ordered were sitting, getting cold while they were waiting for the wings. The clam shells usually even help them retain the heat. Just because we ordered it all at once, doesn't mean it needs to all come to our table at once, but Americans are obsessed with this for some reason, even if it means letting the food die to get all the plates together. I don't get it- maybe it's on us to incrementally order things. I'd also understand if the restaurant was huge, running back-and-forth several times would be a hassle, but we were sitting 7 feet away from where the food was waiting. The beer was barely cool, not "ice cold" as advertised - warmest I've had on the beach. Shrimp were good, but I heard that they are the frozen kind because they don't want the hassle of pulling off the heads. Oyster crackers were tasty. Charge a % if you use card, so be sure to bring cash!
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Robert A.
Jan 1, 2025
Big drinks...Big breakfast ...Big Sam's. We rolled in hot on New Years morning and were met with some top notch bloodies at the door. Although the place was busy, the big idea at Big Sam's to just relax. No rush. I did the waterman's breakfast which is three eggs, toast, hash pens and a gigantic crab cake. I would argue that it's one of the best crab cakes in Hampton Roads. Nothing fancy...just a giant perfectly prepared cake. Loaded with crab and grilled so there's a little crispy carmalization on each side. Delicious. Prices are very mild and the service is friendly. If you're not in the right mood to 'relax' then go somewhere else.
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Missy L.
Oct 26, 2024
We're from out of town and wanted to grab some lunch. Stumbled across Big Sam's. We got the hot blue crab dip, buffalo wings, and a dozen of raw oysters. Delicious! We'd go back just for the wings. The drinks were good too. Our server was kind. We're definitely coming back next time.
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Alison M.
Mar 14, 2024
Hate to do it - gotta do it. Updating my review here. We've been here a ton of times and ordered To Go probably 5-10x. We live in Shadowlawn and it's super close to our house and easy for nights we don't wanna cook. I'm a big fan of their house salad with chicken and house fries. Yum! The menu is large with tons of seafood and other options as well. Plus, they do breakfast. The service is awful. There are several cranky gals inside who continue to ruin the experience every single time we come. Super rude, condescending and hateful, act put out when you ask for anything and take forever to come back. It's weird bc it only seems to be these gals - if you get one of the younger male waiters they're polite and genuinely friendly. We've been on weekends, week nights, earlier in the day. We've come when it's busy and when it's kinda not closer to close. Doesn't matter - these girls are rude all the damn time. I ordered take out last night - a wedge salad and the house salad with chicken. Spoke to a gal on the phone. When we went to pick up and pay the lady was rude as hell and acted put out as usual (fine, we expect it at this point) and then we get home and no chicken on the salad. wtf. It was a simple order. How do you screw that up?!?! That was my dinner I waited 30 mins for and then the most basic upgrade ever left off? Ugh. So mad. I'm done. We're taking a long break from Sam's. The staff needs some training or an attitude adjustment. Sucks bc I genuinely like the food and it's about 5 minutes from home. But hubs and I discussed it and there are too many other places to spend money around here than to be treated like crap.
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Michelle B.
Oct 6, 2023
The service here has been the best since we arrived to the area. The ladies are all hassle. The wings are grilled which has the perfect crisp to them. The crab dip is okay. But good. The overall simple feel is great. Causal atmosphere is perfect after a day of running around or on the water.
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Chanita C.
Sep 7, 2024
Small place, big flavor. I had the crab cake dinner and as someone picky about crab cakes (frequently not enough carb) I was so happy that these were available, they were delicious, as were the mashed potatoes and gravy. Because it's small and I visited on a Saturday at dinner time, I opted for the bar. Service was good, quite frankly the locals sitting there with me was the best part of the ambiance.
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P W.
Jan 20, 2025
Ordered the Stacy's Burrito Breakfast, I've ordered it multiple times in the past; however this time, it arrived and was substantially undersized compared to previous visits. When I inquired if they had changed the portions I was told that its always been that size, and that it was just because it was rolled tighter than usual. No attempt the explain it in any manner that made sense, as far as I'm aware, rolling a burrito tighter does not make it weigh substantially less than usual. I hope they see they see this.
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