A World of Food is Available

Restaurants in Wilmington, NC are not only abundant, but there are numerous ones that are really good and well worth visiting again and again. Both residents and visitors should sample as many of our locally owned restaurants as possible. We are extremely lucky to have so many choices and you’ll find they are affordable, especially compared with those in larger cities. Everything from seafood restaurants to Thai, French, real Italian, great sushi, Japanese, Continental and many other varieties is available. And even at our finest restaurants, you can feel relatively at ease in casual dress, including walking shorts and polo shirts. Wilmington is a relaxed town, and even most of the business people dress casually.

Dining outdoors is especially popular. In Wilmington, it is possible to enjoy your meal al fresco many months of the year. A number of restaurants scattered throughout the area offer this option. We recommend restaurants for three good reasons. First, the food is reliably good. Second, the prices are very fair. Third, we can almost guarantee that you won’t be disappointed if you dine in any of them.

Seafood Of All Types Is Available

Naturally, the first thing that comes to mind in an area surrounded by water is seafood. Around Wilmington, most restaurants offer some form of seafood and many specialize in it. And when we say “fresh seafood” in these parts, that means it’s not long off the boats – those same boats you see offshore with the long booms and nets.

Being on the coast allows us to enjoy in our restaurants a marvelous variety of seafood that you normally don’t find inland, either because some fish don’t travel well or because they just don’t make it that far – grouper, dolphin, wahoo, triggerfish and soft shell crab, for example, plus a number of others.

No matter your preference – broiled, blackened, grilled, Cajun, poached, steamed, fried or raw seafood – Wilmington restaurants will satisfy your culinary desires.