OBX dining recommendations
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Bonus points if you meet someone from the South on your trip
It's September so I'm thinking odds are better.
I haven't been to the Outer Banks since 1999. Wonder how much it will have changed.
All I know is my dad used to cut school in Sampson County and drive to OBX and surf / camp on the beach (he used to be a Dead Head hippie surfer bro.....lol) all the time.
...But now he won't even go back because of the yankee influx. Plus, it's just a long damn way from Georgia.
Just got back from Ocracoke a few days ago. If I was going to buy a second home (which I'm not) it would be at Ocracoke. God, I love that place.
duck donuts for breakfast
blue moon beach grill
salt box
roosters kitchen
kill devil grill(if you can get in)
mama kwans
rundown cafe
arts place(might be the best burger i've ever had)
agree...i just hate waiting there and their seating is similar to a diner, very limited...wouldn't guess it wouldn't be too bad in september.
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If I were you, I wouldn't limit yourself so geographically, lots of great eats just a little further south:
Tortuga's Lie (Nags Head)
Black Pelican (Kitty Hawk)
Tale of the Whale (Nags Head, but you need to check if they are actually open after Labor Day, not sure...)
Kelly's (Nags Head)
North Banks Restaurant (Carolla)
Tortuga's Lie (Nags Head)
Black Pelican (Kitty Hawk)
Tale of the Whale (Nags Head, but you need to check if they are actually open after Labor Day, not sure...)
Kelly's (Nags Head)
North Banks Restaurant (Carolla)
Holy Hell @TarHeelNation11 you are 100% correct. This place has more freaking Yankees than New Jersey or Ohio. I'm about to punch someone in the donut shop.
LOL. My brother is dating a girl from Jersey (I know I know) that he met while at Alabama -- and she's like a rich New Jersey girl, not Jersey Shore trash. I asked her straightup "Okay....why do y'all northerners love the Outer Banks so much?" And she just laughed and said OBX is like the end-all, be-all of beach destinations for NJ/NY peeps. I guess because it's fairly close and seems exotic...?? Ugh.
Yes, per your recommendation. And they were phonomenal, but I think they use ex-lax in their chocolate icing. I just blew the freaking toilet off the screws.
Cary.........................just ugh. I cannot think of a more boring, dull, lacking-in-any-type-of-personality, yankee haven.
At least in Georgia, heavily yankee-influxed areas like Marietta and Kennesaw have still strongly held on to their Southern identity and heritage (y'all can have Roswell and Alpharetta though. God Fulton County sucks). Cary is just like one big Costco. Cookie-cutter to the max.
Okay, rant over.
Duck Donuts are awesome . . they've opened 4 locations here in NoVA in the past year. Somebody has themselves a gold mine in this specialty . .
Last time I was in one, there was a 30 minute wait to get your donuts in the Herndon, Va. shop on an early Sunday morning . .
#cashcow
Last time I was in one, there was a 30 minute wait to get your donuts in the Herndon, Va. shop on an early Sunday morning . .
#cashcow
You haven't eaten a donut until you've eaten one from Sugar Shack in Richmond. Nothing comes close.
Just busted a nut in my pants. That was an all time great burger. Not sure if best ever, but damn good.
2 thick strips of Bacon, Cheese, 2 onion rings the size of a basketball hoop, bbq sauce, lettuce, tomato.
Just ate a full meal here. I agree with your sentiments- place is top shelf.
