Morehead City
This revival of Carteret County’s oldest restaurant, Captain Bill’s, brought fine dining to a classic waterfront space. The menu offers delicious takes on traditional seafood dishes, many of which are made using fresh catch from the restaurant’s own boat and oysters from its offsite aquaculture business.
701 Evans Street
(252) 499-9528
southernsaltseafood.com
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.
