Cafe & Bakery

Front Porch Cafe - Kitty Hawk, NC

Coffee and baked goods on Croatan Highway (US-158) in Kitty Hawk, open early to early evening every day

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$$$$Kitty Hawk, NC

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Front Porch Cafe sits directly on North Croatan Highway (US-158) in Kitty Hawk — the inland highway that carries traffic the length of the northern Outer Banks, not the oceanfront Beach Road strip closer to the water. The location puts it within easy reach of both the Currituck Sound side and the beach side of the island, since Kitty Hawk — like Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head — is barely more than a mile wide between the two waters. It's a straightforward cafe-and-bakery stop, the kind of place that's easy to build into a morning before a beach day or a walk over at Jockey's Ridge.

The cafe keeps the same hours seven days a week, open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., which covers an early coffee run and a mid-afternoon stop equally well. Pricing lands in the moderate range for the area. Being right on US-158 rather than off on a side street makes it a convenient pull-off for anyone already driving through Kitty Hawk, with baked goods available to grab and take with you if you're not staying.

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Gena Lewis

6 months ago

This coffee shop is cute. And has a great way to get people involved in there community. I enjoy knowing that the places I get coffee truly want to make a community for their people. As a visitor to OBX I loved that I got to find McCuppy. Super fun way to get involved. So when I ordered my coffee I was super excited to try it out. I had a hard time loving my coffee. I order a brown sugar cinnamon latte (which is my favorite syrup at home). It was just very hard to drink due to the amount of syrup in the coffee it was just to sweet and cinnamon.

B H

a month ago

Everyone here was so lovely and knowledgeable about coffee! The spinach and feta croissant was amazing as was 2 different drinks I tried over the few days we were here! Cannot recommend this place enough!!

Alan Jackson

a month ago

We recently spent a week in Kitty Hawk and I had the pleasure of visiting Front Porch Cafe every morning. The entire staff is amazing and their coffee and specialty drinks are top notch. They make every customer feel special and I look forward to ordering products from them on a regular basis on their website. I can't wait to go back next summer during our annual OBX vacation.

psufitnesschick

4 months ago

This location, just over the bridge in Kitty Hawk (the former McDonalds) is great. It's the perfect place to grab a coffee and snack between errands and chores. The coffee was delish and the bagel i got was super tasty. The server was also very nice. I recommend!

Anthony Davis

2 months ago

The coffee is amazing, but the people behind that counter are what make it special. They are up before sunrise making hundreds of drinks while half the island is still asleep. They smile, they hustle, and they do it all during the absolute madness of summer. But a friendly beach reminder… It’s not their fault you sat in traffic. It’s not their fault the rental wasn’t ready. It’s not their fault the weather changed. And it’s definitely not their fault you spent $10k this week trying to live like a local and realized we’re all just tired people drinking coffee too. 😂 A coffee order doesn’t come with a free pass to forget your manners. To the awesome visitors who laugh, smile, tip, and treat people like humans — we love y’all. To the ones who think vacation turns you into royalty… the ocean is right there. Go cool off. 🌊 Protect your baristas. Protect the Porch. ☕️