Front Porch Cafe is a locally-owned coffee shop where you can get your caffeine (or decaf!) fix while enjoying a pastry or cookie and surfing the free wifi. You’ll be in good company too, as this coffee shop is a favorite place for locals and visitors.

In the age of Starbucks, mom and pop coffee shops can be hard to find. Front Porch Cafe offers all the pleasantries of a small coffee shop, while offering a wide variety of the hot and cold coffee and tea beverages you love. Local art decorates the walls and a large mural by a local artist decorates the Nags Head milepost 10.5 location. 

Front Porch Cafe serves Kill Devil Coffee, their own roasted coffee beans from all over the world. When you stop in for a cup of brew, pick up a bag of whole bean or ground coffee by the half or full pound. There are many different varieties to choose from including coffees from Jamaica, Columbia, Costa Rica and other countries well known for coffee, as well as options of organic and fair trade coffees. Local Kill Devil Coffee roasting ensures the beans are fresh and full of flavor. 

Wherever you are on the Outer Banks, Front Porch Cafe isn’t too far away. There are several Front Porch Cafe coffee shops open throughout the Outer Banks, including a shop in Kill Devil Hills at the popular Milepost 6 Plaza, the largest shop in Nags Head and one on Roanoke Island in Manteo. 

All Front Porch Coffee shops are open year round, seven days a week, from 6am-6pm. Winter hours may be shortened on Sundays.


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Manteo
252-473-3160
Kill Devil Hills
252-449-6616
Nags Head
252-480-6616
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  • Monday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Tuesday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Wednesday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Thursday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Friday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Saturday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Sunday6:00am-6:00pm
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Awful Arthur's Oyster Bar

Awful Arthur's Oyster Bar

Welcome to the home of the happy oyster where for over 40 years the oyster has been our world. The Outer Banks only authentic oyster bar is the place to enjoy sensational fare from the sea washed down with your favorite brew or cocktail. We serve by the peck, pound, and dozen, raw or steamed to perfection. Kicked back casual, down to earth friendly staff, and reasonable prices make Awful Arthur’s Oyster Bar the all-time favorite of locals and travelers alike.

The idea wasn’t to set out and establish a new concept restaurant on the Outer Banks, but that’s exactly what Awful Arthur’s owner Jo Whitehead and her late husband, Jay, accomplished more than 35 years ago when they opened the area’s first authentic oyster bar.

 

Awful Arthur’s opened in May 1984 on the Outer Banks. “We embraced the concept of an authentic copper top bar with the idea of it being a major drawing card and it still is,” explains Whitehead. “I get oysters wherever they are local. We follow the warm waters.” 

 

Just across from the ocean, in Kill Devil Hills, oyster season is year-round at Awful Arthur’s. Diners can take a seat at the copper-topped bar to observe the staff shucking oysters, served raw or steamed, along with shrimp, crab legs and clams all steamed to perfection. 

 

It’s not just the raw bar that’s earned Awful Arthur’s both local and national recognition, including being named one of America’s greatest oyster bars by Coastal Living magazine. The restaurant is a seafood-lover’s paradise, offering the freshest catches available.