Outer Banks Buffets

Diamond Shoals Restaurant is a family-owned establishment that has been serving Hatteras visitors and locals for more than 25 years. It’s open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner and is welcoming of large groups. Breakfast is full service and hearty, including omelets, platters, hotcakes and more. At lunch or dinner, be sure to try their award-winning clam chowder and crab bisque. Diamond Shoals is well known for its large selection of fish. Diners also love the salad bar and full-service sushi bar, which is open Monday through Saturday. Customers rave nightly about the high quality and beautifully appetizing preparations of the sushi. The restaurant carries all ABC permits and offers a vast selection of cocktails, favorite local draft beers, wine and an established sake bar, which makes them unique on Hatteras Island. Their seafood market is open every day with a large selection of fresh, local seafood. Catering for events and family gatherings is available; choose from sushi, fresh seafood or from their vast menu of options.

Dunes Restaurant has been a breakfast and dinner favorite among Outer Banks locals and visitors for nearly four decades (37 years in 2019 to be exact). Breakfast here is a certifiable Nags Head tradition. Their hearty breakfast buffet and fresh fruit bar, offered daily in season, are a huge draw, yet the a la carte breakfast menu is one of the biggest on the beach, with choices like shrimp and grits, creamed chipped beef, N.C. country ham, a crab and shrimp omelet and a waffle platter. At dinnertime, Dunes is known for its Outer Banks-style seafood – shrimp, scallops, oysters and fish served lightly breaded and golden fried or lightly seasoned and broiled, with all the favorite sides. Other favorites include crab cakes, steaks, burgers, seafood pasta, fish tacos and their famous fried chicken. Just be careful not to fill up on the piping hot hushpuppies with honey butter that are served before your meal (trust us, they’re irresistible!). Family-owned and –operated, Dunes welcomes children and large groups to their casually and comfortably elegant restaurant and R-Bar, serving specialty cocktails, wine and beer. A retail area in the front of the store tempts with children’s books and toys, women’s accessories, jewelry, scarves and much more.