Outer Banks Posts

Mark your calendars because the 20th Annual Watermelon Festival is right around the corner! Join us for a classic summertime tradition packed with family fun, awesome prizes, and sweet treats 🍉
📍 Kitty Hawk Kites, Nags Head, NC
🗓 August 6th | 10 AM – 4 PM

What to expect:
🎯 Classic games & competitions
🎨 Face painting, arts & crafts
🍔 Delicious food & tons of watermelon fun!
🎟 Admission: FREE to attend! (Tickets required to play games and eat)

Best of all, this event supports the Outer Banks Bicycle & Pedestrian Safety Coalition to help keep our local community safe on two wheels! 🚲🚦

This Weekend at Waterside Theatre 🎭 Experience history under the stars at Waterside Theatre.
✨ Join us Friday and Saturday night and come early for the free Native Pre-Show at 8 PM, featuring stories, songs, and traditional dances performed by Indigenous members of The Lost Colony company. Then stay for America's longest-running outdoor drama at 8:30 PM.

The forecast is looking beautiful for a summer evening on Roanoke Island, making it the perfect weekend to experience the most exciting night on the Outer Banks. We can't wait to welcome you!

We've got bonsai galore at Silver Bonsai Gallery - great selections of Dwarf Jade, Ficus, Japanese Juniper, Sweet Plum, and more! New to bonsai and yearning to learn more? Not only are we happy to answer your questions, we also have great books like The Bonsai Handbook by David Prescott and Introduction to Bonsai: A Complete Illustrated Beginners Guide to help you learn this wonderful art form!

Come on by and see our trees!

Today's Vendor Spotlight is on a new addition to our 2026 Fig Festival lineup: Dawn Marr and her daughter Juniper of The Painted Turtle. Dawn and Juniper fell in love with Ocracoke and its figs 5 years ago. Juniper is 13 and is a self-taught crochet artist. Dawn is an elementary art teacher and artist. They are traveling from Ohio with their dachshunds creating art and getting their feet in the sand and salt water.

They will have fig earrings, fig ornaments, and crocheted figs! Some of their handmade items are inspired by Ocracoke's beloved Ocracats, and they are donating a percentage of their proceeds to the Ocracats Foundation.

You'll find The Painted Turtle booth inside the Barn next Friday and Saturday!

The Official 2026 Halloween Island Passport design is revealed! 👻🎃🐈‍⬛

Passports will be available for purchase beginning October 1st at all of the participating Halloween Bars for a $5 donation to the Outer Banks Relief Foundation, and allows you to wind your way through over a dozen uniquely-themed Halloween bars throughout the Town of Manteo. We’re putting the “fun” in “fundraising” again this year with five full weekends of “trick-or-treating for adults” brought to you by The Outer Banks Visitors Bureau and Kellogg Supply Company!

🍗 THE SAUCE HAS BEEN CHOSEN… NOW IT’S TIME TO COMPETE! 🍀

Our youngest wing connoisseur, 6-year-old Colin, made the trip from Chesapeake, VA with one important mission—to help us pick the perfect wing sauce for the All-American Wing Fling. After a very serious taste test (and a few sauce-covered smiles 😄), the verdict is in…

The competition sauce has officially been selected! Now we’re ready to take on some of the best restaurants on the Outer Banks this Saturday, August 1st, and we’d love to have your support! If you’re heading to the Wing Fling, stop by our booth, try our wings, and let us know what you think. We can’t wait to share what Colin gave his official seal of approval!

Wish Team McGrath’s luck! The Luck Is in the Sauce. 🍀🍗💚

This Saturday 🔥 Come out to the first-ever All-You-Can-Eat Chicken Wing Festival at the Roanoke Island Festival Park in Manteo! Guests will sample wings from some of the region’s favorite restaurants as attendees vote to help crown the ultimate Wing Fling Champion. The event also features:

• Live music from The Deloreans with special guests, SoulOne
• Kid Zone with support from the North Carolina Aquarium& Fun Zone powered by Kitty Hawk Kites
• Mustang Outreach Program
• Local vendors and food trucks
• Cold beverages, games, giveaways, and more

Who’s Got The Sauce? See you there!

Today we have Fresh Tuna Salad on Special, still have a few Soft Shell Sammy's, Flounder, Green Beans, Mac & Cheese changing to Local Sweet Corn on the Cob for Dinner. Last Day for Tomato Cheddar Soup!😋

Artist Spotlight! 🌾🦊 These stunning pieces are made by Wade Wheeler of OBX Wood Turning. Wade is an extremely talented wood worker who also happens to be our neighbor! His bowls, boxes, and vases are made with a combination of locally sourced woods, and fine exotic woods. They're all finished with beeswax and/or Citrus oil and are food safe.

If you've visited our bar, you may have noticed our amazing tip bowl. Wade made that for us as a surprise for our grand opening. Like all of his work, it's truly one-of-a-kind!

Come in soon and see these beauties for yourself! They won't last long! Check our website for our current hours!

Our new outside bar, 5 O'clock, is now open!! Come see us! 🍻🎶🍹

Check out our new bar menu below.