obx is OPEN (even in winter!)

The dining room at Ocean Boulevard in Kitty Hawk. Great food, live music on Friday nights.

It’s winter on the Outer Banks and for most of us who live here, it’s a great time of year. The pace of life slows down, we catch up with friends, the kids are in school—in many ways, OBX life goes back to its roots, returns to a time when the pace was more small town… Continue reading obx is OPEN (even in winter!)

20 years = great food + good times

Twenty years of great food and great times at Ocean Boulevard. Hard to imagine that Donny King has managed to keep things as fresh and fun as the day he opened. We have a wonderful article from Jim Trotman writing for the Outer Banks Voice about how Donny and his wife, Heather, have managed to… Continue reading 20 years = great food + good times

the OBX is OPEN – even in winter!

Dennis Day, bartender at Ocean Boulevard. Photo North Beach Sun, Kati Wilkins.

Every year I hear reports that winter is here and the Outer Banks are dead. As a long time resident and still living example of local life, I think it’s safe to say the rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated. Don’t expect a wide open, every day of the week schedule like we have in… Continue reading the OBX is OPEN – even in winter!

nor’easter to blow through obx tonight

National Weather Service radar at 3 p.m. showing gathering storm.

It looks like the Outer Banks is in for a good old fashioned nor’easter tonight as a low pressure system builds off the coast and then scoots northeast to New England . . . or as they say in the parlance of the National Weather Service, “6 PM this evening through 6 am Sunday . .… Continue reading nor’easter to blow through obx tonight