Nags Head
Capt. Sambo Tillet opened Sambo’s to serve breakfast to other local fishermen. He later added the name of his son, also a fisherman, to the restaurant. In 1971, the family sold the restaurant, but customers still come in for their morning “Omie-lettes,” as well as lunch or dinner featuring local fish.
7228 South Virginia Dare Trail
(252) 441-7366
samandomies.net
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.
For the owner of The Country Biscuit, welcoming diners is the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. And diners’ dreams come true when they try the glazed biscuit doughnut holes.
Black bears are the embodiment of North Carolina’s adventurous spirit, immense and wild.
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.
