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Thanks for the links Ericandblueboy! I must have missed them as I was searching quickly on my phone last night. A lot of great places on there -- many of them are on islands or far north (Corolla). I'll recommend the following to my family: Black Pelican (Kity Hawk) $$ Ocean Blvd Bistro (Kitty Hawk) $$ Bad Bean Baja Grill (Kill Devil) Kill Devil Grill Tortuga's Lie Sooey's BBQ Sam & Omie's Dune Burger Run Down Cafe Duck Gingerbread House Bakery Blue Point $$ Red Sky Cafe Paper Canoe $$ Corolla (The whole Tim Buck II Shopping Center looks great) North Banks Fin & Claw Sweet Spot Corolla Village BBQ The Shack (Coffee) Manteo 1587 $$ Duck is probably the furthest we'll go though since we're staying in Kill Devil Hills and Manteo and Corolla are pretty far.

I know that many people travel to the beach each year, but most of the time people cook their food at home & hit up a grocery store on the way in to town. Since my family gets lazy sometimes, we are bound to eat out a few times a week while there. But, I noticed the area seems a bit desolate in terms of food options. Does anyone have recommendations? I've found one place we would actually go back to this year (besides places for snacks like donuts). I won't elaborate much since I wrote these places up w/ their own reviews already on yelp. Good: Food Dudes - atmosphere is friendly, food is spot on. Can get crowded. Duck Donuts - get 'em fresh Try My Nuts - just a nice snack place to get different varieties of nuts, popcorns, fudge, candy Ok: Shun Xing - it's cheap and pretty good, though quality has gone down recently Bad: Mama Kwan's Tale of the Whale - we used to go here every year as tradition. Not only has it gotten more expensive, but the quality of food has gone waaaay down. Multiple send backs at the table for inedibility Thanks for any help! -Nicole (p.s. it's a family trip so places with tons of drinking or margarita bars won't work, sadly)

Yes, I've never seen anyone there for the food. There are many bartenders and many at the bar, but just the one lone older guy in the corner you have to find to pick up your carry-out order. Quality is lacking. Not the sauce, but the meat itself is really gristly, tough, and chewy. We recently switched to ordering from Rien Tong which is better, but still not great. I don't think that anyone's going to H#1 for food though, just drink. And food as an afterthought.

I'll ask around! My dad's side of the family is from Guandong, though I don't think they'll be much help since they've been in the states a while.

Yeah, I wouldn't suggest using it either, but like I said, I'm sure others might be wondering and wouldn't want them to be surprised at dinner. Like I said, this is a happy hour AND a prix fixe, so it's *doubly* excluded from LS use.

1) Voicemail only at this point. Reservation has to be made through Manager's number, the regular reservation line can't make them 2) I know this is weird, but Sou'Wester just had a deal on Living Social. Wonder if it's valid for this event? It says valid for dinner only 5:30-10 and not for HH or Prix Fixe. I'm assuming this costs as Prix Fixe AND Happy Hour, but I'm sure other people on this board bought the deal and might wonder the same thing.

I was harsh on the 'goods in the beginning, but I've come around (or have they). I think the quality of his baked good have gotten a lot better, though I still prefer the oatmeal creme pies and cookies to his cupcakes. If they opened for breakfast to have muffins/coffee in the morning I think they could do some great business, but there is strong competition from South Block around the corner.

We love Pete's! The owner is really nice and I don't mind paying extra since they said they try to buy as many ingredients as possible from the local farmers' market. That said, it is too expensive to go regularly. We've gone several times with groupons and on half-price mondays and after getting it on the cheap (Aka more-in-line with other pizza places), it's hard to go back to full price. From what I remember, they've discontinued the monday deal. I like supporting them though since they're local and they donated to a charity event I did last year (CupcakeCampDC). That, and their pizzas are huge! Clarendon needs a good pizza place, and no more ice cream/froyo/gelato places!

I've been in a million times since the soft opening and the food and service is always superb! I mentioned to a manager that there needs to be some hooks under the bar for purses and especially coats since there is no coat rack in the place -- I hope this gets added since I heard someone else mention it that night too. I live in the building, so it's not too much of a hassle for me to forgo the coat/purse and just bring my wallet for now. I've already noticed that the prices have gone up a few bucks in about as many days. I remember there was an article where Scott said he was competing with Cheesecake Factory. The prices aren't exactly the same, but they're close enough and honestly, there's no competition. I highly doubt there's an overlap of clientele from CF to Green Pig. When I was there Friday night, one of the managers told of a dissatisfied customer that said they had eaten a better steak at Outback and that they were going to blog and write on all the food sites how bad Green Pig was. They refused to let the meal be comped and stood outside of the restaurant for a while telling people to not go in. I wonder if the diners knew that the chef uses off-cuts of meat for steaks? Then again, I don't know if there can be much reasoning done with patrons of Outback. I know the Bloomin' Onion is good there, but they're not the same "type" of restaurant as Green Pig. I joked and said "let them try to diss you -- I, along with many others, have already written our 5 star reviews!". The dining room is ridiculously hot (I run cold, so If *I* say it's hot, it's sweltering), but I like sitting at the bar since Andrew is such a great bartender. They have a chalkboard special where the drink changes about every night since they only have 3 drinks on the menu. The only problem is that the bar gets so ridiculously crowded. I'm hoping that the crowd dies down a bit when the hype is gone, but I can't guarantee that since I've been recommending and bring lots of people TO it! I guess it doesn't help that there's a spin place in the building as well and the classes tend to let out and converge at the bar here. On another note, I went here on Saturday with a vegetarian friend. Luckily she isn't too strict of a vegetarian since I'm pretty sure there's lard or bacon in everything. She had the mac & cheese (the potato gnocchi had big pieces of bacon in it, the mac had smaller ones that she didn't notice ^__^), a skillet of the delicious corn bread, yummy cocktails, asparagus hollandaise, and she tried one bite of my snail/mushroom toast. She eats chicken sometimes, so I'm sure she would've eaten more if there would have been less adventurous meats. "The reuben is really good!" "Um.. it's ox heart". Not the best meat to ease in with.