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Waterfront Dining located in Atlantic, North Carolina

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Grandchildren of esteemed community and fishing industry leader, the late Billy Smith, have Down East roots dating back to the 1700s. The restaurant is named after our late father, William Ellis Smith, when we had the original Wild Will's 25 years ago on nearby Harkers Island.

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Always the Freshest Catch

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Explore our seasonal menu offerings that are based on the freshest catch of the season. Indulge in the flavors of the sea with our daily specials.

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Locally Sourced & Sustainable

At Wild Will's Revenge, we are committed to sourcing our seafood locally and sustainably. Our dedication to responsible fishing practices ensures the freshest and most environmentally friendly seafood for our guests.

We are closed this week!! Celebrating the 250th birthday of America: Friday night in Atlantic and Saturday at Harkers Island. If you're free, go check out Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on Friday evening; they are having their shrimp fry, and it’s real local shrimp! We’ve been celebrating the 4th Core Banks style for a long time and plan on doing it again this year. Here are a few pictures from the past! Happy 4th! We look forward to seeing you July 9th at 5pm!! #america #atlantic #wildwills #atlanticrv #coresounders 🇺🇸🧅🇺🇸🦀🇺🇸🐟🇺🇸🦐🇺🇸🍤🇺🇸🍷🇺🇸🍸🇺🇸🎂🇺🇸

When you let your cats out at 6am, you get a beautiful sunrise picture. Thankful we get to live where we do. #coresounders #wildwills #stacy

Come celebrate tonight, 6/27, with us! We will be closed next week so our crew can spend time with family, and we can celebrate the 4th at our RV Parks!! So join us tonight for dinner, serving the best seafood never off a food truck and our awesome Certified Angus prime rib! Oh I almost forgot for a short time Mattamuskeet onions are in the house!! The best handcrafted cocktails and homemade desserts, you won't be disappointed!! I told someone last night that when you serve the best, a three-night-a-week restaurant turns into five days, chasing crab trucks, the Evans Truck, and gathering shrimp from the fishhouse. If you do it right, it takes time, money, and energy. Come see us tonight, and if not, we will see you on Thursday, July 9th, with Bingo or some sort of action on the porch. If you missed the book signing, we have books for sale at Wild Wills, and all proceeds go toward marking the graves in the Historical Cemetery in Beaufort. Happy Fourth! #coresounders #seatotable #america #atlantic #wildwills 🇺🇸🦐🐟🦀🥃🍤🎂🥩🧅🍸🚤🇺🇸

It’s a busy week in Atlantic. A book signing tomorrow, June 25, with Bill Lewis. A sendoff Friday for Larrington, you never know where you’ll find her, in Raleigh politicking, in Core Sound mulleting, at Wild Will’s waitressing, or interning at a law office. We also have Mattamuskeet Onions coming on the crab truck tomorrow from Belhaven. It’s going to be a great weekend in Atlantic. Come see Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 5pm. We will be closed next week for the Fourth of July, so grab your 250th shirt celebrating life, liberty, and seafood at Wild Will’a this weekend!! #coresounders #atlantic #wildwills #shrimppeople #seatotable

We’ve got a busy week scheduled at Wild Will’s. First off, on Thursday night, June 25th, there's a book signing on the porch. Come have dinner, buy a book, and get it signed by Bill Lewis. We met last summer, and now he is a regular at Atlantic RV and Wild Will’s.

What’s better than the freshest and best Down East meal and a book from family that you can read with your feet in the sand, “Where The Tide Remembers!”

Rooted in the Carolina coast and carried forward through prayer, memory, and family telling, Where the Tide Remembers is a deeply personal remembrance of the people who lived by the water and endured by faith. Moving from reunion prayers and the meaning of the family name into the lived world of the Ca’e Bankers, the memory-laden ground of Shackleford Banks, and the long-reaching Lewis family line through Wales, England, and America, this work gathers history and inheritance into one sustained act of remembrance. More than genealogy, it is a witness to kinship, hardship, endurance, and the old duty of carrying the story forward. In these pages, the coast is not merely a setting, but a keeper of memory, and the family story rises again with the tide. Signed Bill Lewis

All the proceeds from this book will go towards the Old Burial Ground in Beaufort to help identify and mark graves that have not been identified or marked for over 200 years.
#coresounders #wildwills #atlantic #downeast

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads. I wish mine were here. ❤️ We had a wonderful weekend celebrating all the dads. Thanks for coming out and celebrating with us! We have a busy week coming up. Stay tuned for all the information: a book signing, a send-off for Larrington and a Holiday for the Wild Will’s crew. See you Thursday at 5pm! Hug your Dad today, I would love to give mine one. 💔 #coresounders #wildwills #atlantic #happyfathersday #seatotable 🦐🐟🦀🎂🍤🥃🥩❤️🍤🚤🇺🇸

This is who “captains the ship” at Wild Will’s. Come celebrate Father’s Day with us. Here is a 40-year-old picture of our Daddy, me, my cousin Charles cutting up, and a Grandmama Janice’s pineapple-coconut cake. Come see us and celebrate all the dads this weekend! Wild Will’s Prime rib, sea scallops out the cloth bag, fresh Wanchese Tuna, stuffed soft crabs and fresh jumbo lump crab cakes! Don't forget the desserts, Maria’s banana pudding cheesecake, WildWill’s chocolate cake and the handcrafted cocktails! Leck’s Lump, Rumleys Hammock, Halls Point Jellyball, and the Shrimpgate! #wildwills#atlantic #youngerme #nccrab #seatotable 🦐🐟🦀🍸🥩🍤🥃🍸🎂⛵🇺🇸Open Thursday Friday & Saturday at5!

Come see us tonight! We open at 5pm!! #atlantic #coresounders #wildwills #seatotable #nccrab

Come check us out! We have a band, Mighty Saints of Soul, on Friday, July 3rd. It’s going to be a great weekend in Atlantic! We have nightly, weekly, monthly, and yearly spots, and a beautiful tiny home ready to bring your furniture and enjoy a shrimp girl summer in Atlantic!! #atlanticrv #wildwills #portsmouthisland #tinyhome #druminlet 🎉🦐🎉🎂🦀🇺🇸🥃🍤🚢🚤🇺🇸🚤

Everyone wants a Bailey’s Box, but when you leave the Big Rock Keli Wagner Fashion Show and meet the crab truck, you want a Bailey bag to haul your jumbo lump crabmeat to Atlantic! Avoid the crowds and come see us this weekend! Serving the best sea-to-table seafood in Carteret County! 🐟🦐🐟🦀🎂🥃🍤🥩🍹🍸🦐🇺🇸 #coresounders #wildwillsrevenge #atlantic #ncshrimp #nccrab

Avoid the crowds in town and come have dinner with us! #coresounders #wildwills #atlantic #seatotable #atlanticrv 🦐🐟🦀🍸🥩🥃🇺🇸🚤

Today is the day!! Come out to Smyrna Pentecostal Church, there is a bake sale and a few plates for sale. Eat in or take out! If you are getting your plate delivered to Atlantic Elementary, it will be available for pickup from 11:30 until Noon. We will have the plates to Sherman’s Islands Choice at noon for pickup! Thanks to my crew who helped with these locations and selling tickets! It takes a village, and this seafood village is the best!! #coresounders #downeast #nccommercialfishing #atlantic #wildwillsrevenge

Now open on Thursdays at 5pm! Come see us it's worth the trip! #fresh #wildwillsrevenge #atlantic #coresounders #seatotable

The Wild Will’s Queen rocking her pasta, shrimp and crab claws at the law office today! Starting week four of her internship. Nothing like some local shrimp and cocktail claws to keep the brain sharp!! #coresounders #ncshrimp #nccrab #wildwillspasta #wildwills

Crab boats bring crabs and crab houses bring crabmeat, and crabmeat brings crabcakes and crabdip and stuffed shrimp, stuffed softcrabs, and cocktail claws. We are serving up the best of the best all weekend. Prime rib, grilled tuna, sea scallops out of the cloth bag, homemade Grandma Janice’s pineapple coconut cake, Maria’s banana pudding cheesecake, and those handcrafted cocktails!! Lecks Lump, Rumleys Hammock, Shrimpgate, and a Longpoint Lemonade to name a few! 🍸🦐🍹🦐🐟🦀🎂🍤🚢🥃😘 Come see us; we have additional parking behind the restaurant.

Come see us this weekend, we’ve saved you a seat, fresh, real, local seafood, nothing but the best! I almost forgot to mention our homemade desserts and handcrafted cocktails! #atlantic #coresounders #wildwills #ncshrimp #shrimpgate 🦐🐟🥩🍹🎂🍤🍹🚤🥃🦀

Boy Scout Troop 252 G has flagged Wild Will’s! This weekend, we will remember all those who didn't make it home while serving our country. #america #memorialday🇺🇸 #wildwills #atlantic

Congratulations, East Carteret class of 2026 graduates. Thirty-five years of giving out the William Ellis Smith Jr. Scholarship, and tonight, Larrington presented it to Joseph Mason.
Congratulations Joseph!

#coresounsers #echs #mariners #thirdgenerationmariners #wildwills atlantic

Thanks for celebrating Mother’s Day with us! We had a wonderful weekend, but the cooking and celebrating your special occasions never ends at Wild Will’s Revenge! Come see what’s fresh this weekend! Sea scallops out the cloth bag, jumbo lump crab cakes made in our kitchen with NC crabmeat, stuffed NC shrimp, or soft crabs. Oh, did we say shrimp? You can get them fried, grilled, on a burger, stuffed with crab, on a salad, or beer-boiled, but remember to order the shrimp! We support our NC fishermen, and this year’s shirt honors the shrimping industry. The Myron Ann was the first trawler my grandparents owned, and lots of men who worked on her became highliners in the seafood industry, so of course, we wanted to put the Myron Ann on our 2026 t-shirt to celebrate family, Atlantic, Core Sound, and the shrimping industry, past and present! Remember order the shrimp!! And not just any shrimp, the local NC 🦐! #coresounders #wildwills #shrimpgate #wwprimerib #ncshrimp 🦐❤️🐟🎂🍤🚤🍸🥩🦀🍹🥃🇺🇸🚢🚤

Come get your seafood fix and raise a toast to Mom all weekend at Wild Will’s Revenge. We are serving Wild Will‘s prime rib with all its aujusness, and sea scallops from the cloth bag, if you know, you know. Not from China or full of chemicals. Did we mention the Wanchese tuna is back this weekend? It’s so good, remember the tuna at the original Wild Wills and the hush puppies and cheese. Who doesn’t love our Core and Pamlico Sound shrimp, never from the breader or a pond. Homemade fresh jumbo lump crab cakes and stuffed soft crabs. Homemade desserts, Maria's banana pudding cheese, Grandmama Janice's pineapple cococut cake, handcrafted cocktails, like the Shrimpgate and Lecks Lump Old Fashioned. You never know what this week’s drinks will be. We even have Busch Apple🍎. See you Friday and Saturday nights at 5. #Coresounders #Wildwills #nccatch #wanchesetuna #seatotable -haulspointjellyball -rumleyshammock 🐟❤️🦐🎂🦀🍹🥩🍤🥗🥃🍰🍸🍷

Come see us this weekend! Fresh wanchese tuna, jumbo lump crab cakes, stuffed shrimp, and fresh, cleaned-in-our-kitchen soft crabs!! Certified Angus prime rib, homemade desserts, and handcrafted cocktails! Try our Atlantic Oaks Lily in honor of The Kentrucky derby!!

#atlantic #seatotable #seatotable #wildwills #coresounders 🦐🐟🦀🎂🥩 🦐🐟🦀🎂🥩🍸🍤🥃🇺🇸🚢

Come see us this weekend! We open at 5pm Friday and Saturday nights! #freshsoftcrabs #wwprimerib #atlantic #coresounders #seatotable #atlanticrv

It’s time!! We can’t wait to see you this weekend! We are open Fridays and Saturdays at 5pm!! Prime rib, jumbo lump crabcakes, crab dip, Wild Will’s cheese and hushpuppies, WW Chocolate Cake, and Shrimpgate cocktails. #atlantic #wildwills #ncshrimp #seatotable #coresounders #atlanticrv #leckslump #atlanticrv

One more sunrise and we are open for dinner! #wildwills #atlantic #coresounders #seatotable #ncshrimp #atlanticrv #nccrab #wwprimerib #shrimpgate 🦐🐟🦀🥩🥃🎂🍸🥗🍹🚤🍤

Just keep swimming! We can't wait to see you Friday! Avoid the crowds and come see us in beautiful Atlantic! #atlantic #coresounders #ncshrimp #seatotable #nccrab #wildwillsrevenge #wwprimerib #nccrab #shrimpgate #atlanticrv 🦐❤️🐟🍸🦀🥩🥃🍤🍹

Hitting it hard this week!! See you Friday 5pm #wildwills #atlantic #seatotable #coresounders

Getting ready for this weekend! We can't wait to see you for the 2026 season! #wildwills #atlantic #seatotable #coresounders #atlanticrv

All my Atlantic people and peeps! The Easter Saturday Cemetery pig-picking will happen from 11 to 2 at the Scout Hut, a new venue just a few doors down from the Fire Department.
There will be a bake sale and a 50/50 drawing.

Someone said it’s the 40th year. I wish some of those original Atlantic’rs were still here….

If you can’t make it, please donate to keep your loved ones’ resting place looking nice.
Atlantic Cemetery Fund
PO Box 222, Atlantic, NC 28511

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