Morehead City
No need to get out of your car: Just wait for a carhop to walk up, take your order, and be back in a flash. The small brick building is unassuming, but inside, legendary meals are made. Once customers receive their oysterburger or shrimpburger, they can dine outside at wooden tables or roll down their windows to enjoy their meals on the spot. Read more …
3706 Arendell Street
(252) 726-3002
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To commemorate our 90th anniversary, we’ve compiled a time line that highlights the stories, contributors, and themes that have shaped this magazine — and your view of the Old North State — using nine decades of our own words.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
Us? An icon? Well, after 90 years and more than 2,000 issues celebrating North Carolina from mountains to coast, we hope you’ll agree that we’ve earned the title.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
