To Do Cafe and Seafood

My cousin Carol Ann down home posted on Facebook about her favorite restaurant, the To Do Cafe and Seafood.  She made it sound so good that I had to check it out when I was on the Northern Neck of Virginia for our family reunion.  I spent one day tooling around Richmond County, finding the location of my great-grandparents' house at Stony Hill and the Veterans Administration headstone (Rev War) for a great-great-great-great-grandfather.  That one's beneath two walnut trees behind a Budweiser warehouse.

From the county seat of Warsaw, the To Do was only seven miles away, so I crossed the Rappahannock into Tappahannock (try saying that six times fast), passed the highly touted Northern Neck Burgers, and made my way to the To Do Cafe.

 

Carol Ann did not steer me wrong.  For $18 I had a combination plate of a big ol' crab cake (all killer, no filler) and half a dozen fried oysters.  For sides, I had butter beans and onion rings, and they threw in a couple of hush puppies.  The onion rings were pedestrian, but everything else met my standards for sho 'nuff boss chow.

Oddly enough, one of the owners is a huge Oakland Raiders fan. It was a touch of home, while down home.

There's also a campaign 'round those parts to get people to do their fertilizing in the fall, rather than the spring, so the rains won't cause runoff into the river and interfere with crab mating season. Ergo, "Save the Crabs, Then Eat 'Em."