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Welcome to Rusty Hooks Dockside Grill, a waterside haven serving up an incredible (must-try) margarita and coastal Carolina fare in the Southport/Oak Island area.
TUNE IN NOW for our waterfront chat with Rusty Hooks owner, Cindy Capps. Get the dish on her favorites from the menu and more! We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Brunswick Beat! We’ll catch you next time — you never know where you’ll find us!
Video Transcript:
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0:06Hey folks, welcome to this edition of
0:08the Brunswick Beat. I am Jack Hamilton
0:10with the Hamilton Realy Group and I am
0:13so excited today to be sitting out here
0:15at Rusty Hooks Dockside Grill with the
0:18owner Cindy Caps. So Cindy, welcome.
0:21Thank you.
0:22So tell tell us a little bit about Rusty
0:25Hooks, how it came to be and how old it
0:28is. Just a little bit about that.
0:30Little bit about Rusty Hooks. Okay. How
0:32it came to be. I am a self-proclaimed
0:35foodie. I love good food.
0:37I love good food. Okay.
0:39I’m a boater.
0:40Y.
0:42I love to pull up at a restaurant on my
0:45boat and dock and dine. Cool.
0:46So, I tried to create a place where I
0:48would love to hang out. And over the
0:51years, it has taken on all these
0:53different new identities, including the
0:56live music venue on the deck.
0:57Absolutely. You’ve been killing it with
0:59that.
1:00Thank you. But who doesn’t want to sit
1:02by the water and drink a margarita and
1:03listen to live music?
1:05So, for people that might not know, tell
1:07us a little bit what they might find on
1:09the menu.
1:10Menu. Um, when we first opened, that
1:14menu is also grown. When we first
1:15opened, our menu was very Marylandbased.
1:18Um, and we’ve we’ve kept quite a few of
1:20those items. Uh, the previous owner of
1:23the restaurant um was from Maryland. And
1:26so we’ve got Maryland style crab cakes,
1:28no bread filler, gluten-free, whole nine
1:30yards, Maryland style cream and crab
1:32soup, that type of stuff, crab dip.
1:35We grew into a taste of North Carolina.
1:38So I resource as much as possible from
1:41North Carolina. And I’ve got fresh uh
1:44seafood. My fresh catch, Captain
1:46Robert’s fresh catch is a North Carolina
1:48fish when local when available.
1:50I’ve got North Carolina shrimp year
1:51round, North Carolina oysters year
1:53round. Um so I’ve got a little bit of
1:55everything. thing. I’m a seafood
1:56restaurant that also serves you a fillet
1:58with gorgensola butter.
1:59There you go. There you go.
2:00A bit of everything.
2:00Cool. That’s nice. I mean, and great to
2:02hear. So, if you had to ch pick
2:05something, what would be your favorite
2:07thing on the menu?
2:08That one’s hard. That one’s very hard.
2:11Um,
2:12I might go with the chapina this week.
2:15Really? Yes.
2:16Okay. Tell me about that. A chapino is
2:19is an Italian style, American Italian
2:21style stew, fish stew that has scallops,
2:24clams, shrimp, and pieces of our fresh
2:27ketch in it.
2:28Delicious.
2:29I was going to say that that that sounds
2:30like something I could go for, too. So
2:33cool.
2:34But then when I’m in a carnivore mood,
2:36it’s that fillet with the gorgeous olive
2:37butter.
2:38You D would love that. That’d be cool.
2:41So, all right. Switching switching up on
2:42you then. So, what’s like your favorite
2:44cocktail? Oh, again my favorite.
2:47Everybody knows mine, right?
2:48Favorite cocktail. I’m a bourbon girl
2:50and so we’ve got a pretty good bourbon
2:52selection, but when I’m doside,
2:54okay,
2:55I like that docside margarita.
2:57The doside margarita.
2:58That’s my Cadillac margarita.
2:59And I’ve heard about people talk about
3:01that all the time coming here and the
3:03doside margarita. So that’s cool. So,
3:05um, anything else that you you think you
3:08need to share with us about this great
3:10place and why people should come out?
3:14So, I think there are a lot of reasons,
3:17you know, but I think that the thing
3:19that I take the most pride in is we run
3:22our restaurant from a customer’s point
3:23of view. Um,
3:24yeah, you do.
3:25And we really do try to focus on the
3:27customer and the experience and the
3:29memories we’re building here.
3:31And, um, the other thing, like I said,
3:33that whole taste of the Carolas. Um,
3:37we take pride in local and giving back
3:40to our local.
3:41Yeah. Yeah. supporting locals. Yeah.
3:43Well, we just came from an event where
3:45we were talking about that stuff. So
3:47cool. Well, I I so much appreciate you
3:49taking the time to do this. Um and uh
3:52for all of you out there, please please
3:54come visit Rxy Hooks Dockside Grill when
3:58you are in the Oak Island Southport
4:00area. And uh that’s it for this edition
4:02of Brunswick Beat. Um we’ll catch you
4:04next time. You never know where you
4:06might find us.
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