Sam & Omie's Restaurant

Definitely a mom and pop place... plus very busy! The service is pretty good and friendly. They have a bar area too. This place has been around for 87+ years so the place is dated, which also makes it special. Went for lunch and highly recommended the shrimp sandwich. The shrimp was perfectly battered and fried. They didn't skimp on the shrimp too... they were a very good size. If you have to do non-seafood, the burger was good. After you eat go across the street to the pier or beach. You can also park there if the restaurant parking lot is full.

This place is worth the wait!!!Talk about some fresh, homestyle, beach eating!My family and I throughly enjoyed this place again this year. Our service was excellent, our drinks were strong and delicious and the food was amazing!I got the shrimp sandwich and it was the best meal of the Nags Head trip. My drink, the painkiller, was also the best drink of the beach week! My husband loved the fried sampler with flounder and clam strips. My daughters also loved the clam strips too!The staff were so friendly, supplying my kiddos with crayons and coloring papers and getting my overly beach tired toddler crackers to enjoy before the meal arrived.The ambiance is small, homey beach vibes. Exactly what you would want from a staple restaurant in this area.We arrived around 4:15 for supper and still had a wait, but I promise, the wait is worth it!

I got a cheddar, mushroom and pepper omelette with hash browns and was most pleased; it all tasted like something mom would make. Ambience is hard-core local in a wonderful way; Sam & Omie's has been here forever and when you're a community fixture, you gather things. Memories. Poems written by locals, lovingly, about the staff. Pictures of seafaring conquests and lifelong friends. Those sorts of things. I've read reviews claiming the service was bad here. I don't believe them. Sure, even the very best of staff can have the very worst of days. That's just how life goes. But I think a more likely explanation can be found in the adage, "The vibes you put off are the vibes you get back."I saw an old white-bearded gentleman come in and take a seat at the bar. The barkeep called him by name, saying he was a little late today. I don't know what he'd been through, I suppose it could be most anything, but I watched every single member of the staff speak to him and love on him in various ways. It was obvious he wasn't just a customer, he was family. We have lost our way as a country; so much anger, so much hate, so much name-calling and demonizing and violence. How much better would America be if we all had our own Sam & Omie's, where faults were forgotten, differences overlooked, and we were loved through the rough spots?

The service is fast and friendly, and the food is consistently good. It's a great place for breakfast.

Not sure the issue, but Breakfast places should know how to cook eggs, that's #1 item to perfect.My eggs over easy was crunchy/crispy medium! Another main importance is coffee, our waitress never came to me to fill my coffee, when I was done with my food without coffee, I had to ask for coffee.Years ago this place was amazing, not anymore

Eight of us went on a June Monday at 7:30 based on ratings and everyone loved it. Only a 30 minute wait when most restaurants were 1-2 hours. Sam and Ollie's was awesome and I'd highly recommend adding this to your list of OBX favorites. Broiled seafood was amazing and so much better than the other seafood restaurants we've eaten at in Nags Head. Scallops and flounder were cooked just right with a very tasty seasoning. Best corn bread I've ever had (so moist). Fried oysters were perfect and the Cole slaw and beans & rice sides were excellent. Entire family loved their meal and setting was a fun, quaint seafood shack style vibe with lots of impressive pictures of local fisherman's catches.Right next to Jeanette and great restaurant for lunch or dinner after fishing on the pier.Nice kids playground / park next door and fun way to make the wait go by faster for the little ones.

We really enjoyed this place! The drum salad sandwich and drum cake sandwich recommended by our great server were delicious! She took all the time we needed explaining fish options to my friend from Kansas. Nice beer selection and homemade deserts. Definitely save room for key lime pie!

Sam and Omie's is a cute older style beachy restaurant. The staff were super friendly. The food was just okay and in my opinion is expensive for its quality. I paid extra for the "cooked to order" burger hoping it would be something special but it really wasn't. The calamari was good and my she crab soup was the highlight of the meal. Overall it was just okay.

Wow! We ordered and got our food only 5 minutes later. The food was delicious, and we were in and out within 45 minutes. Nice place!

I got Food Poisoning at Sam & Omies - they should put that on a t-shirt! We were highly recommended it by my uncle, whose son lives in the area. My mom and aunt have tried to come two other times, but it was too busy, which made us all the more excited to finally get to eat there after years of build up. The ambience and aesthetic of it was super charming, with lots of mementos collected over years of operating in the area. Sadly, the food did not live up to the hype and cozy vibe. The calamari was gummy, but okay enough to eat because I was hungry;however, I regretted that decision in about five hours when I started profusely vomiting. That wasn't the end, as the next day, I continued having diarrhea (and still do today as I write this review). None of the other food poisoned me physically, just spiritually, especially the overly sweet cornbread. Crab cakes and fish looked and tasted like they were made in a gas station. Staff was hella rude (not the kitchen staff, they seemed very nice). We didn't even know what to say when our server asked "how is everything?" Felt like we were being punked. Like, are the people who highly recommended this to us doing a bit? Honestly though, the experience was very memorable and hilarious because we could not believe how ridiculously mid it was. I almost give it 2 Stars for entertainment value, but I'm still too bitter about getting the pukes. One Star.