The Jolly Roger Restaurant and Bar

The Jolly Roger Restaurant and Bar sits right on the Beach Road — N. Virginia Dare Trail — in Kill Devil Hills, and it keeps hours built for beach-town flexibility: doors open at 7 AM and the bar runs until 2 AM, seven days a week. That's enough runway to cover breakfast before the beach, a midday break from the sun, dinner, and a late drink, without needing to find a second spot once the sun goes down.

It's priced in the moderate ($$) range and set up as a genuine combination of restaurant and bar rather than leaning hard toward one or the other — a spot regulars can drop into for a meal or just a round at the bar. With the kitchen and bar both running long past when most nearby restaurants have closed up, it doubles as one of the later-night options on this stretch of Kill Devil Hills. The address puts it on the Beach Road corridor that runs along the oceanfront through the town where the Wright Brothers made their first powered flight in 1903.

• Address: 1836 N Virginia Dare Trail, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948
• Phone: (252) 441-6530
• Hours: Daily, 7 AM – 2 AM
• Price range: $$