a joint · MDHorace & Dickie's Seafood
also: Horace and Dickie's · Horace & Dickies
A fried-fish carryout that ran thirty years at 12th and H Streets NE in Washington and now trades from Prince George's County, Maryland. Whiting on white or brown bread is the order it is known for; wings share the same fryer.
When they’re open
Nobody has published this one's days where we could read them. That is a gap in this directory, not a closed door — call ahead, and see the Sunday question.
The story Cited · web-dcist-horace-dickies
Richard "Dickie" Shannon opened the carryout on H Street NE in 1990 with a friend named Horace. The counter sold fried whiting as a sandwich or a dinner plate, with baked macaroni and cheese, collard greens, potato salad, candied yams, french fries, hush puppies, coleslaw, corn on the cob and seasoned potatoes beside it.
It closed on 1 March 2020. Shannon put it on the neighbourhood changing around him: "The customers here have been getting $100 tickets, $150 tickets, towed. And it's affected the business." He also said, flatly, "Gentrification is cultural genocide." He was 82 and said he would play more golf. A Takoma shop and a food truck kept running.
Shannon died of complications of COVID-19 on Sunday 6 February 2022, aged 84. His son Rasheed Black, the business manager, told WTOP: "I think people will remember him just making people laugh at the 12th Street location and here on Allentown Road." And: "The main thing that he did was he would basically give people second chances." His wife of thirty-two years, Nancy Shannon, said much the same to NBC4: "He gave everybody a chance. If they needed a job, even if they had a little blemish on their record, he would give them a chance." WTOP listed Camp Springs, Takoma Park, Glenarden and Waldorf as the shops carrying on.
Inference — the fish counter and the wing counter are the same counter in this city. A D.C. carryout fries whiting, wings and shrimp in the same oil and sends mumbo out with all three; that is why a seafood shop sits in a set about wings.
Today Cited · web-experience-pg-horace-dickies
The Prince George's County tourism office lists the Camp Springs shop at 5601 Allentown Road, phone (301) 773-0140. Tradition holds — wings and wing dinners are on the board there; delivery listings carry them, and this project has not read a page from the business itself. No posted hours could be cited, so no day here is called open or closed.
The particulars
| state | MD |
|---|---|
| status | open |
| founded | 1990 |
| cooked | fried |
| styles | Mumbo sauce wings |
| region | Washington, D.C. |
| address | 5601 Allentown Road, Camp Springs, MD, 20746 · Prince George's County Cited · web-dcist-horace-dickies |
| where | 38.8108, -76.8967 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Harvested · osm |
| confidence | medium · needs verification · updated 2026-09-16 |
Near here
Crow-flies miles; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every joint in the country from wherever you're standing.
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Who it runs with
Who talks about it
Where we got it
- Horace And Dickie's Owner Says Gentrification Is Pushing Out His Fried Fish Carryout After 30 Years On H Street · link
- Founder of DC-area's Horace and Dickie's Seafood dies at 84 · link
- Owner of Horace & Dickie's Seafood Mourned in Maryland, DC · link
- Horace & Dickie's Seafood — listing · link
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