Outer Banks Seafood Festival

The Outer Banks Seafood Festival is rapidly becoming one of the highlights of the fall season, with plenty of fresh seafood, storytelling, and activities to keep everyone fully entertained. This all-day event takes place at the waterfront Event Site in Nags Head, and is a family-friendly outing that will make anyone fall in love with this staple of the Outer Banks’ culinary cuisine.

The cost for the Outer Banks Seafood Festival is just $5, (with food and beverage samples available for $1), and there’s certainly a lot to love and explore at this central and soundfront event. Highlights of the annual Seafood Festival include a Kids' Zone, live music throughout the day, boat exhibits, cooking demonstrations,  and much more - including and especially the food. Vendors will be on hand offering plenty of local fare to sample and enjoy, from local arts and crafts to hot clam chowder and ice cold raw oysters, and more than a dozen restaurants from the Outer Banks will be present with a wealth of local goodies. Celebrate the heritage of the Outer Banks seafood industry, and enjoy this educational and thoroughly entertaining event that puts one of the Outer Banks’ biggest claims to fame in the spotlight.