The story behind
the fish-head sign.
A restaurant that began as the Polar Bear Drive-In and still gives visitors a real local table to find.
Since 1960
One address, a long family table.
Darrell and Dora Daniels opened the restaurant in 1960 as the Polar Bear Drive-In. The restaurant has grown with the family while remaining a Manteo stop for breakfast, seafood, BBQ, and a meal to take home.
The original fish-head mark remains in the upper-left corner of the new design as a recognizable piece of the restaurant's personality—not a generic seafood icon.
on US Hwy 64/264
Darrell's Seafood Restaurant
Made for the road through Roanoke Island
A familiar stop for the route ahead.
Darrell's sits on the route toward The Lost Colony, Elizabethan Gardens, Roanoke Island Festival Park, the North Carolina Aquarium, and the Manteo waterfront. The redesign makes that practical decision easier: story for trust, menu for appetite, directions for action.