- For our next bite, we head to Winston-Salem where a mother-daughter duo is working side-by-side to continue their family's legacy, bringing their customers a wide selection of fresh seafood for over 40 years, cementing Forsyth Seafood Market as a community staple.

[upbeat music] - If one is a traveler and comes to Winston-Salem, you must come to Forsyth Seafood.

- Smile on everybody's face when you walk in, really helps brighten up my day.

I just love this place.

- And when they're good friendly people, that makes every bite of food a little better.

They want to make sure everybody here feels welcome, and they want to make sure they give you a meal that they can be proud of and that you'll enjoy.

You'll see the owner, Virginia, and she'll come out into the restaurant and visit and ask how your food is, and she's just very friendly.

I get the jumbo fried shrimp sometimes and the fried catfish, those are probably my two favorites.

- I like to order their flounder as well as their jumbo shrimp.

You do get a large portion of whatever you order when you eat at Forsyth Seafood.

There's no skimping on the amounts of food that they provide you.

- They have fresh fish in one portion of their business, and they also, and I love to get my blue claw crabs from the fresh seafood side.

And then if I want cooked seafood, I come to this side that we're in now, which is the restaurant portion.

- The sides that they have to compliment their fish itself are also delicious, so I'm consistently ordering their collard greens, as well as their pinto beans.

- One of the things that businesses have a challenge of is whether or not it can be intergenerational, whether it can be passed from one family member to another.

Clearly that's happening here.

So while this has been a homegrown business historically, now they have a young daughter who's bringing some new things to the table.

- [Virginia] My late husband and I graduated from college and went into professions and at some point decided we wanted to be a business owner.

And so we are sitting in our basement, we say we are from the coast.

We had at that point been bringing seafood back to different people.

We always had these massive fish fries at our house and people would come and enjoy.

So we said, well go with what you know.

We know seafood, so that's what we decided.

- I did not want to do anything, but I didn't want anything to do with seafood.

After school, I would come here and do homework.

My books and my backpack would smell like seafood and I would hate it.

And like it was just a thing.

After my father passed in 2013, kind of like the light bulb came on, like oh, I like fish now.

There was no doubt about the fact that we needed to continue his legacy and continue our family business.

I went to culinary school at Johnson and Wales.

I wanted to kind of pay homage to North Carolina food ways and some of our eastern North Carolina upbringings.

I'm from Winston-Salem, but I always say that like Beaufort is also my home, 'cause I spent a lot of my summers there in my childhood.

You grew up eating spots and croakers?

- Yeah.

- So we carry the whole spot and the whole croaker in our fresh market that can be cut to order.

We have a lot of Virginia customers that come down and they buy about 25 pounds of fish at a time, and we'll cut it and they can take it home, and they put it in their freezer and they pull it out over time, and then we'll see 'em the next season like, hey, I'm here for this fish this time.

So, I think that's always cool to have that option.

My dad used to make a gumbo and we decided to put the gumbo, the eastern North Carolina gumbo on the menu here, that we incorporate tomatoes.

I know that's kind of like frowned upon in Louisiana, but in North Carolina we like tomatoes, so we just like pay homage to his legacy and some of the things and flavors that he grew up having and some of the ways that he would express his love.

- Forsyth Seafood Market and Cafe is at 108 North Martin Luther King Jr.

Drive in Winston-Salem, and they're open Monday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m.

to 8:00 p.m.

To learn more, give them a call at [336] 748-0795 or go online to forsythseafood.com.