Mulligan's Grille sits on S Croatan Highway (US-158) in Nags Head — the inland four-lane corridor that runs the length of the northern Outer Banks, a separate route from the oceanfront Beach Road (NC-12). It's listed as a brewery and bar as much as a restaurant, so plan on a pub-style kitchen paired with a beer-forward drink list, priced in the moderate $$ range.
The kitchen and bar run seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., with no listed break between lunch and dinner — handy if you're coming off the beach at an odd hour and don't want to wait around for a dinner-only kitchen to open. That kind of continuous daytime-into-evening schedule is typical for this stretch of Croatan Highway, where restaurants serve a beach crowd that doesn't keep restaurant hours.
The name nods to Nags Head's real Cottage Row — the row of century-old, unpainted shingle cottages known locally as the "Unpainted Aristocracy," a National Historic Landmark district on the oceanfront Beach Road. This address, though, is over on Croatan Highway, a separate inland route — so treat the name as a nod to that history rather than a literal location inside the cottage district.
Reach the restaurant directly at (252) 480-2000 or through its website for current details, especially during the Memorial Day–Labor Day peak season when this corridor gets busy at dinner hours.
