Seafood Destiny

 

Located at 4705 West Gate City Boulevard in Greensboro, Seafood Destiny serves Low Country seafood cuisine for lunch and dinner Wednesday through Sunday. There are lunch specials available Fridays and Saturdays and a brunch menu on Sundays. Food can be ordered online for pickup, and delivery is offered through GrubHub.

 

Once a rarity in Greensboro, the seafood boil concept has taken off during the past two years, and Seafood Destiny is a good exemplar thereof. An outgrowth of owner Anthony Knotts’s backyard boils, the restaurant offers various combinations of crab, shrimp, corn, turkey sausage, lobster, and potatoes. Many of these items are also available a la carte, as are shrimp mac and cheese and green beans, and there are a few fish and pasta offerings as well. There’s even a George Floyd Boil, whose proceeds partially go toward a college scholarship for African-American men.

 

As tempting as a full-blown boil was, I opted for something better-suited for one person: the George’s Seafood Hoagie. A lunch-only offering, its price tag seemed ridiculous ($18.95 for a sandwich?!), but the pictures shared via the restaurant's social media made it too tempting to pass up.

 

While Seafood Destiny does offer online ordering, it doesn’t operate in the way that you’d expect. Instead of selecting a pick-up time, you select a check-in time, and your food is made-to-order upon your arrival. While this ensures freshness, it is also likely to try the patience of the hungry, and I can only imagine what the wait times are without the order-ahead option.

 

Fortunately, I didn’t have a particularly long wait (maybe fifteen minutes after arrival), and the sandwich that I was handed by the friendly, hard-working counter staff was worth every penny. The best way to describe George’s Seafood Hoagie is a po boy on steroids. It's a roll generously stuffed with shrimp and crab and lobster and pickles and slathered with spicy-sweet house-made red “Errythang” sauce. It comes with an equally ample portion of thinly sliced herbed potatoes. Hyperbolic as it sounds, every bite was bursting with flavor. This is not an easy sandwich to eat – you’ll need two hands and several napkins – but it is well worth the endeavor.

 

When you’ll actually get your food is a guessing game best not played when hungry, and cheap eats these are not, but for the seafood connoisseur, Seafood Destiny is a must-try.