Fire Breaks Out at Matunuck Oyster Bar Overnight
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Fire Breaks Out at Matunuck Oyster Bar Overnight
One of the most popular seafood restaurants in Rhode Island was devastated by fire overnight. A fire at the Matunuck Oyster Bar reportedly broke out around 4 AM on Tuesday.
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The restaurant is located on Succotash Road in South Kingstown.
Perry Raso, the owner, has become one of the best-known oyster entrepreneurs in the country.
He has become the face of the industry in the region — “an oyster farmer with degrees in aquaculture and fisheries technology, [who] started ‘digging wild shellfish with a bull rack at age 12.'”
