Upscale Restaurants in The North Carolina Coast

Restaurants Overview
Name	Price/ Cuisine	Location

Back Porch Restaurant At what looks like a cozy little cottage in the woods, seafood...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Ocracoke Island

Basnight's Lone Cedar Café Hearts were broken when this restaurant, owned by powerful North...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Nags Head

Blue Moon Bistro Beaufort native Chef Kyle Swain returned home to put into use...	$$$ Cuisine, American: Modern American	Beaufort

Breakwater Fat Daddy crab cakes, rolled in potato chips then fried and served...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Hatteras Island

Captain Ratty's Seafood & Steakhouse Everyone from businessmen to vacationing families finds something...	$$$ Cuisine, American	New Bern


Catch Native Wilmingtonian chef Keith Rhodes is a James Beard Award... Reserve	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Wilmington

The Chelsea Situated in the former drugstore of the pharmacist who invented...	$$$ Cuisine, American: Modern American	New Bern

Pier House Restaurant The restaurant is literally on the old, crooked, wooden Nags...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Nags Head

RV's Sugar Creek If fiery red sunsets and marinated tuna entice you, this is the...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Nags Head

Sanitary Fish Market It can get busy (hourlong waits) and noisy (600 seats), but locals...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Morehead City

Shuckin' Shack The front doors of this main-drag raw bar are wide open even...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Kure Beach and Carolina Beach

The Spouter Inn Dining at a shaded table on the Spouter's deck overlooking Beaufort...	$$$ Cuisine, Seafood	Beaufort
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