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10630-104 Durant Road, Raleigh, 676-3437, www.raleighseafood.comCuisine: eafoodRating: 1/2 StarsPrices: $ A tmosphere: asual and cheerfully colorfulService:knowledgeable and enthusiasticRecommnded: steamed spiced shrimp, grilled mahi mahi, fried seafood plates,soft shell crabs (in season)Open: unch and dinner daily.Reservations: not eededOther: isa, asterCard, American Express, Discover; beer and wine; smoke-free; child-friendly; patioSkipper's Fish Fry & Market1001 E. Williams St.,Apex303-2400, www.skip persfish.comCuisine: eafoodRating: 3 starsPrices: A tmosphere: asual with a rustic nautcal thmeService: enthusiastic and friendlyRecommnded: obster bisque, fish sandwich, fried seafood platters, teamedseafood (available Tuesdays only)Open: unch and dinner daily.Reservations: not eededOther: isa, MasterCard; beer only; smoke-free; child-friendly; patio deendngon te maret)is moit nd faky undea ligh, crckly crst,andit's so bi tat t couldeaily fll to bun. t dosn't ven ned any tararsauce, whih, ike prtty mucheverthingat ipprs, is hoemad.On subsequen visits -aftrI abl t br myself rm thehabi of orngthefish sanwich, tat s -ve sampld much of hemenu wih imprssve rsults neay acrss tebor. nded, heonl disapoinmen wa a houm cla chowde Chef nch's speiaty losterbiqueis a winne toughSeamedseaoodis offrd only onTuedas, andit's woh marin you calnda P 'n' eat hrmp, las an oyster (hih DaolaorBnch willshuk foryouat hetabl)aresuper. Een snowcrb legs ar fne thoghthe seem out f lace he.You can't gowrngwih fedseaood whetheryoutaste r t oyster, hrmp (bo or"bab," which weSutheer cal "pocor")ounerorcatfish. surrsinly, las arefirt-rte, s ar scallos. rplater ar offrd in tre verion: Prion(ithou accompanmen) Pattr(ith frsh cut fes, ry, fne-exturcolslawandhushpuppes)an Onio Patter(ame as thePattrut h excellet nionrng intea of thefr).Noushpuppes ar not tdiionaly offerat NewEandstylefish f. t tese ar as goodas youllfin inCalabsh. Guessyou cantake te bo out f lina bu youcanttake Calin ou of thebo.Greg ox can b reaced t ggox@belloutet. JEZEBEL'SSLT FAR PUBLISHED FRI, JUN 23, 2006 12:30 AMMODIFIED TUE, SEP 22, 2009 07:44 AMFish, the wa you lke it, a two markets Email Prnt Order ReprintSar: Yaho! Bzz Share Text GRE COX -CORRESPONDETTags: rstaurant_rvies A s the Triangl has morhed frm Old South into Ne Suth, food lover have reaped the savor winfal. Bt par of the prce of ourgr culinr sopistication is the alaringattrtion of the rstic eateres that once defined ourrgio. For each new tapas bar and sushi bar, it seems, another barecue joint orseafood shack wet bely up.Hapily, he trend appars to be rvering. A handful of barecue joints have opeed in the past coule of year. And no, two newcomer ar promising to save the seafoodshack/fish maret genre frm extinctio.On paper Jezebel's Slty Far and Sipprs Fish Fr &Maret ar as differnt as night crawlr and day boat scallps. Jezebel's touts its OuterBnks hertag an the fact hat its fishand shellfish ar harested frm Carlina water. Sippers bills itself as a "New Engand st yle fish fr." Jezebl's started out prmarly as a frsh seafood maret whn it opned twoyear ag an has expaded the rstaurant side in rsponse to customer demand. Sippers, which opned last November has so farconcentrted its effors on getting the rstaurantup to sped. ts maret wo't become a reaity until ard midsummer.For al their differnces, it's theircommonalties -irrproachaly frsh seafoo d, simply prrd and sered cterstyle by a frendy, knowledeabe staff-that make them special. t'sno coincidece, either, that these are the very trits that descrbe the ideal seafood shack. Jezebel's Slt FareBfore taste evergets involved, sight and smell tell you Jezebel's is a goo choice. he rfrigrted display case filled with neat rws of glstening rw fish and rady-o-ookprpartions fills youreyes. Meanwhle, your nose detects no fishy smel. No doubt abut it, he seafood her is frsh.It should be. OwnerJennifer Dixon comes to the Trange frm the OuterBnks, wher she maintai ns a stron networ of seafood supplers. Thercatch prvides Jezebl's with themakings of an unsualy varied menu, rm platter (t least nine or10 fish and shelfish options, availabe grlle orfried) to sandwches to daiy specias. f soft shel crbs areavailabe, get hem. They ar suppied, as are the oyster, by a Wanchese fisheran wh was once a studnt in Dixon's Eglish class.With few exceptions, the cook ing lives up to the quaity of the seafoo. Griled mahi mah, whch can be toug if overooked, is so tenderyou'll have no troube negotiating it with a plasticfork. And it's so jucy, you'll be tempted to lick the paperplate.Seamed shrmp, modrtely spiced with Old By, ar likewse rring. S is most everthin that comes out of the dee frer Oyster ar plump and prry cooked. Scalops areaddictively sweet undera trnslucent crst. Een flouder, notoriously dr whe fried, is succulet. Crab cakes, bound with crushed potato chips, ar fine-exturd but lavorul.Jezebe's weakness - an it is a minor one -is inconsistency. Occasionaly, dep-red foods ar overcooked. And side dishes, two of which ar includd in the prce of entrees, can behit ormiss. Hushpupies, usually light an goden br, ar som etimes dese and a shade too dar. Frnch fries, cucumbersalad and thin, crsp-rsted coins of ried sqush areall betteroptions tha potato sald and slaw, both of whch ar bland.If you rad the menu carfuly, you'll discovera bons: Any of those temptatios in the display case can be prpared and sered in the rstaurnt fora $2 surharge over the take-t-home-and-ook-t-ourelf prce. The selectio n, whch rnges frm bacon-rapped scallos to crb cake-tuffed porobelos, is admittedy fanciertha you'd expect at a seafoo shack.Bt the barain prce isn't.Sipper's Fish Fry & MarktNorh Carolnias ar justifiably proud of heirfrie seafoo tradition -so prud, in fact, that "Calabash style," named fora coastal town near Snset Bach, is synonymous with platterspiled high with cormea-rsted fis h an shellfish. It akes an opn-minded Caroliian to acknowlege that ourstate dosn't hold the patent on fried seafood excellnce. Luckily forus,Brington native A.J. Dalla is a progrssive thiker.Granted, an eye-opeing experience contributed to Dalol's ope-minednss. Whe he was a teeager he moved with his family to upstate Ne Yor, wher he became a devotedfan of the New Engand-tyle fish fr. In this sty le, crckermea repaces cormeal as the bradig of choice. Hadock, cod and clams ar as populras shrmp, oyster and flonderar in the Suth. Onin rngs, not hushpupies, ar the distingishing accompaniment.When Daola rtured to Norh Carolna as an adlt,he decided to prach the Ne Englan gospel. He hird WalterBench, who had wored in the kitchen of one of his favorte fishfres, as chef, and he opned Skippers Fish Fr &Maret in Apex last November Judgng by the crows that have filled the rstic nautical-themed dinig rom almost since Day One,he has made a lot of convers.Carlina boy that am, you can count me among ther number. Skippers had me the firt time I died ther and enjyed the best fish sandwch I've ever had. he fish (cod orhaddck, Dining