Breakwater Restaurant

The food was excellent, the service divin

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Breakwater is our favorite restaurant on Hatteras Island. Had an amazing meal outside on the deck. Best food, views, and service!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The Breakwater is a must visit on all our trips to Hatteras! The food is excellent, service top-notch, and the view the absolute best of any restaurant in Hatteras! It's good fun to sit on the deck listening to live music and watching the comings and goings of Hatteras Harbor. Don't miss this great spot!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Delicious food and cocktails! Fantastic live music on the night we visited and one of the best spots to watch the sunset. Highly recommend visiting this amazing restaurant!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best food I have had in a long time. I drive all the way from Raleigh in order to eat there every summer!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food was delicious and the drinks were good. We had clam chowder that had a lot of flavor and clams, coyote oysters, the fresh catch tuna as an appetizer and the tuna appetizer on menu. These were great. The crab mac and cheese was not good, it had very little seasoning but it had a good amount of crab.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

The food was pretty good!
The service was lacking. They added gratuity to any table with 6 people and over. I feel like the waiter didn’t really try. Our drinks did not get filled.
The atmosphere was very bar feeling. They had babies at the bar with people drinking. There was live music, but it was way too loud. You couldn’t even have a conversation at our table.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 4

Service: 2

Ate here tonight. Pretty place, server seemed on top of things, knew all the specials well. Service was slow - took a long time to get drinks. Food was a little better - apps came quicker but entrees took quite a bit longer. Seemed understaffed. A woman brought our entrees (a GM?) and apologized for the wait. I ordered the filet - sides on the menu were roasted potatoes and asparagus. I got a nicely cooked MR filet - barely warm, some mashed potatoes - mostly cool to cold, and green beans/carrots - also cold. It took a while for anyone to ask how our meal was - by the time the server got there I had eaten about half the filet and a few bites of the sides. He was apologetic and said he could bring new sides. I took him up on the green beans but also mentioned the discrepancy between the menu and the plate. He had no explanation - just apologies. Our meal was not cheap and my food was not what I ordered and was mostly cold. No explanation, no communication from management. On our way out we overheard a fairly angry man (In the parking lot) complaining that he hadn't been believed that his food was cold!

I gave two stars because my husband, who had one of the specials, said his food was very good. But we will not return.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 2

Food was great, our server was kind, polite and knowledgeable, and the veiws are spectacular.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent service

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We accidentally found this place and boy are we glad we did! The food was excellent and the service was exceptional. I wanted a pasta dish but it sounded too spicy with andouille sausage and creole sauce. After assurances that it would not be too spicy I ordered scallop ravioli in a cheese creole sauce. YUMMY!!!! Ask for a spoon. You’ll want sauce with every bite. Oh I didn’t mention the She Crab Soup which is in the top 3 of what we have ever had. Delicious! We took a bowl home. Then dessert (I posted a picture). A donut crusted with honey served with raspberry ice cream and glazed peaches. We shared but should have gotten two - who knew? One of the best meals and meal experiences we’ve had thanks to Drew our server. Will definitely go again.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Best she crab soup! Excellent

Our server, Laya, was wonderful!! So sweet and efficient! Plus the food was delicious! We’ll be back next year!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Laya was a great server and the food was fantastic!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Atmosphere is great, nice views on the deck. Food was so so, shrimp overdone, fries cold upon arrival, gummy mashed potatoes, veg medley was a bit over/under depending on which veg it was. server who was also the bartender obviously didn’t want to be there, had to ask if there were specials, what came with those mains. Etc. I dunno, we really liked it a few years ago, hopefully this was just an off night.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 2