Urban Kitchen - COROLLA

OMG This restaurant is a must! Outerbanks NC Fantastic food for sure! Great Chef! We ordered Lamb meatballs with cucumbers and marinara. Cheese with a sweet fruity sauce to start. Chicken that was seasoned so good with potatoes and Asparagus. We also had Mahi fish that was cooked perfect. I know all the food served will be about your expectations. Dessert was a Key Lime item with coconut crumbles that I'm still thinking about! Full bar so Don't forget to ask for a Cherry Margarita. Service is over and above. Not a big place, so very nice personal feel. Thank you Joe and Jen for a perfect meal ! I will be dreaming of your food for days clear to Okla !

Visiting the area and were looking for a nice date spot for dinner. Found the location on yelp, and decided to try. So glad we did. The service was friendly, the food was delicious and very well priced. we got the gem salad with green goddess dressing(yum) the potatoes bravas with tzatziki, chilled veggies and fries. Everything was so good. We would definitely come back. The place is very small, so heads up on that. They do not take reservations.

We lucked out when our first choice for dinner had stopped taking names at 7:15 PM on a Wednesday so we headed to another place on our list and Urban Kitchen did not disappoint! We were seated right away (and were told this was definitely not the norm...usually a 1-2 hour wait! and proceeded to embark upon the finest dining experience we have ever had in the Outer Banks. We had the halloumi cheese, crab, and peach soup as appetizers for the 4 of us. Excellent choices! For dinner, our group had the pork chop (x2 , salmon, and halibut special. Cocktails (Manhattans and Sour Cherry Margarita with Hibiscus Salt and wine were excellent as well. We loved this place and you will too!

We arrived around opening time. We are 2 families, a total of 9 people. We knew they didn't except big groups, so we went knowing that each family was going to sit separate. We waited at the door and once the host came out, we told her we wanted to sit separate from each other so we could dine. Her face quickly changed, and she said she doesn't split groups. She was adamant that since we came together she wasn't going to seat us. I thought this was ridiculous. You mean to tell me that if one family came 5 minutes after the other one you wouldn't sit them just because they know people that are dining inside? Her demeanor was rude even though we were calm. She said we couldn't eat there and walked back in.

Upscale, but casual small restaurant with exceptional food while still being family-friendly. We love the Outer Banks, but always somewhat dread the food scene since it tends to be overpriced and mediocre while also not being the most kid-friendly in the world. Urban Kitchen turned all of that on it's head. We got into our beach house about 2p, did a quick trip to the beach and then realized that we had to either get groceries and cook at home before bedtime or find someplace to eat out. We'd had our eyes on Urban Kitchen for a bit, but finally decided that we could really use the break from cooking and we'd try it out. We showed up 12 minutes before they opened (on Saturday night) and I'm glad we did. The hostess was tracking everyone that was out there and we were already the 6th party. When they did start seating people, we were either the last or 2nd-to-last group to be seated. They turned away several groups after us--so, lesson learned show up early. The crowd was there for a good reason. We had the porch chop, strip steak, flounder and my 5-year-old daughter had the chicken tenders. It was all fantastic. The best thing was probably my 8-year-old son's steak, which he got with the horseradish sauce on the side. He demolished 2/3 of a huge steak that was perfectly cooked medium to be pink on the inside and easy to eat, but still juicy. The horseradish sauce was also great, but we used it mostly as a dip for his fries. The arugula salad on the side (which I ate almost all of) was also great. My daughters chicken tenders and french fries, which they offered off the menu without being asked when they saw we had kids, were fantastic too. They were real, nice chicken breast filets with fantastic breading cooked to crispy goodness. The fries were lightly salted and herbed shoestring fries, but not over-cooked. The flounder came over wild rice topped with thinly sliced pears and carrots over a cauliflower purée. The fish was cooked beautifully with a nice crispy outer layer and the veggies on top and salty cauliflower brought things together. My wife said pork chop was probably the least exciting thing we got, but it was still quite good. To push things over the top, they saw that we were having a bit of trouble keeping the kids entertained while we waited for our food and brought us a bowl of crayons to draw on the butcher paper that they had on top of each table. The result was a great dining experience that everyone enjoyed. I didn't get a chance to check out the wine list, but the beer list was decent and had a lot of local beers and some nice national ones. Bells two-hearted ale (in cans) and Stone IPA (on tap) were two examples. I got a blackberry original sin cider that didn't disappoint.