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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 UCW 25 Best of Fayetteville Best Seafood Restaurant 316 Oyster Bar & Seafood Grill 316 Owen Drive 910-481-0530 or www.316oysterbar.com Local owners Wayne, Joyce and Rodney Horne have been in business since 1995, serving up fresh seafood that arrives from the coast daily. Their goal is to serve you the highest qual- ity seafood and steaks available anywhere, to prepare your food the way you order it, and to serve your order hot in a prompt and courteous manner. One way they like to engage customers is by challenging them. Buy three roosters (raw oyster, saltine cracker, jalapeno pepper slice, horseradish, black pepper and hot sauce) and eat them all to win a free T-shirt. Drink a rooster shooter (raw oyster, beer, horseradish) in one gulp and the shot glass is yours to take home. For those not interested in this spicy challenge, the oyster bar offers steamed and raw oysters by the peck. Of course, there's more than oysters — shrimp, snow crab legs, lobster tail and filet mignon, to name a few other menu items. Combine several favorites like mussels, clams, oysters, shrimp and sausage in a steam pot. For land-lubbers, options include ribs, chicken, sirloin and fried pickle chips. Best Southern Style Restaurant Fred Chason's Grandsons Buffet 5339 Marracco Drive 910-860-4899 or www.facebook.com/GrandsonsHopeMills To say Fred Chason's Grandsons has dominated this category in the Best of Fayetteville competition is an understatement. Year after year since the business was founded 18 years ago, it has taken home the top prize. The reasons are simple. Grandsons offers the comforts of home cooking and is a place where everyone is welcome to sit at the table and enjoy a variety of offerings. Everybody is a part of the family, and the recipes taste like they came straight out of your Southern grandma's cookbook. That is exactly the atmo- sphere owners Sheryl and Todd Warga are hoping for. "Our customers are the best because they are family,'' they said. "We are a family-owned business, and we want our customers to feel that when they walk through the door.'' Classics like mashed potatoes, black-eyed peas, pulled pork and more keep customers returning. Most menu offerings are homemade. It's no wonder our readers make Grandsons the choice for Best Southern Style Restaurant. Best Bakery/Best Desserts Superior Bakery 2433 Hope Mills Road 910-424-4242 or www.superiorbakerync.com Superior Bakery has a rich tradition of service to Fayetteville and Cumberland County, dating back to 1956 when it was founded by John S. Poulos. Poulos came to the United States from his native Greece in 1951. After working as a dishwasher, he saved up enough money to buy a defunct bakery on Raeford Road. He married Kay Paliouras in 1958, and the couple grew the business until it relocated to its current location in 1971. Poulos retired in 1988, and the busi- ness stayed in the family as son Nick took over. This year, the family is celebrating 67 years in business thanks to their loyal customers and a reputation of offering quality items at reasonable prices. One longtime customer of Superior Bakery shared this review on Facebook. "I have loved this bakery for 40 years,'' she said. "If you like a German-style breakfast, go buy their brotchen rolls baked fresh every morning. I could eat a half dozen of their glazed croissants. They're amazing. They have a wonderful variety of lots of other delicious bakery items too.''