SmacNally’s Waterfront Bar & Grill

We wanted somewhere to eat before our Ferry to Cedar Island. My husband wanted some “real” seafood. We parked at the ferry and walked over at about 11am. We were seated quickly right on the water and had a short wait for our food. He said his fish was grilled perfectly and my chicken sandwich was the same (seasoned well also!). The four of us ate for under $75.00 which is pretty unheard of at a seafood restaurant in tourist season. Thanks for a great experience!

Fun & lively outdoor waterfront restaurant. Staff are all friendly and helpful, quick with the drinks. Of course the seafood is fresh, tasty and done to perfection. Grab a Tshirt around back with the dock master and say hi to his friendly pupper.
Don't miss this place when on island.

Absolutely delicious! My husband and I both had the seafood dinners with two choices (shrimp/oysters and fish /shrimp) and all was so tasty. Honestly if I could go back we would have both gotten fried oysters…. Best on the island. We loved the laid back atmosphere and seeing someone cleaning/filleting fish (separate from the restaurant) on a dock. This island is really awesome and you can tell the locals take pride in it. Thankful they share it with visitors like us!

On our trip along the east coast we had the idea to drive the Outerbanks (OBX) as well.

Here we are more or less stranded in Ocracoke because on the day no more ferry drove.

We went to Smacnelly's for dinner and got an excellent shrimp plate. You tasted that it was fresh shrimp and these were also prepared super. Fortunately, we came in time, it was already relatively full and it was closed at 8 o'clock.

We recommend it to come to smacnellys !

Love coming here and watching the action. You can watch the boats come and go while enjoying a beer or grubbing out.
Honestly everything here is really good. The chicken is amazing. Taco Bowl was really good. I always come home with a stack of plastic cups.