North Banks Restaurant & Raw Bar — Restaurant in Corolla

If I could I would give this 0 stars. I do not know where all the 4 and 5 star reviews came from. The restaurant the small dark, is smelly and the staff bump in to you all the time while waiting. My wife ordered steamers I ordered fish-and-chips I my kids order to pulled pork and the crab cake sandwich. The steamers came about 20 minutes before our sandwiches arrived. Agreed that when I come from the raw bar of might arrive at different time but 20 minutes before our sandwiches were made. Excuse made was that the kitchen was little backed up. There was 4 to 5 tables in the entire restaurant. My fish and chips came out and they were disgusting. If anybody is familiar with English fish-and-chips or traditional fish-and-chips this is not fish-and-chips. 3 pieces of slimy fried fish. Each about the size of your little finger. Absolutely gross. Stay away. It's a shame because the probly have so much foot traffic that they don't really care about the reviews that people post but this will be the last time I will be back and spend a $120. Let me put it another prospective. If you want bad food, bad service for over priced food come to this place. I'mThere's a lot of letter restaurants on the strip that can offer more friendlier service, nicer tasting food and for a lot less money. Oh and by the way if anybody from the restaurant pr owners are reading this your table texting system is terrible. I kept getting texts to from your system that our table ready, we're nearly there, were top of the line, every time I got a text I either clicked cancel clicked sent number 3 or sent stop message whatever I in fact they got a message after the meal with finished and I was walking out the door that our table was ready. Total experience from the time we entered the door to the time we left was really badd. Try anywhere else I guarantee you won't be disappointed. Also very very pricey. Really expensive for the quality and amount of food to get they should be charging...

Our family had high hopes for North Banks. The reviews looked great, and we had walked by the restaurant the previous day and it smelled delicious.

We got there early to ensure all 7 of us would be able to get a table together. For appetizers, I got some raw oysters, which were delicious. My wife ordered the fried green tomatoes which were phenomenal. My dad ordered the bread basket for the table. This is where things start to go south…

My wife is very allergic to flax seed. Apparently the bread (which we were told the restaurant buys frozen in a bag) had flax seed in it. We ask our waitress to double check with the kitchen. Strangely, she says she doesn’t know and the staff in the kitchen likely wouldn’t either. My sister basically has to push her to go read the back of the packaging, which should have just been the waitress’s first thought.

Three of us ordered the grilled platter or whatever it was called which is $45 and comes with either tuna or salmon, a very small steak, a vegetable, and mashed potatoes. My which I ordered medium rare, is almost well done. I’m not surprised by this since the steak is so small and probably cooks really fast but still disappointing as it seemed like it had potential. The tuna was decent. This did not seem like a $45 value to me at all.

Sadly before I could finish my meal, I had to rush my wife home before her allergy reaction kicked in.

At a restaurant of this caliber, I would suggest they train their staff to handle allergies a bit better, and how to cook the small steaks properly.

I wouldn’t recommend against trying it, hopefully you will have better luck...

The restaurant has a nice and cool vibe to it! it’s definitely a nice change. Food there was phenomenal. Best meal all week that we have been here in obx. the crab was to die for and oysters were heavenly. i had the halibut with asparagus and asian slaw. it was perfectly cooked and seasoned. My dad had the chicken sandwich with fries and he said it was his favorite meal so far and had no complaints. the bread basket was a nice assortment of warm rolls with flavorful butters. they had very yummy specials and the gooey butter cake was melt in my mouth. the key lime pie was just average tbh. All the sauces they use to accompany the dishes really hit the spot.

Unfortunately the service was not that great which sucks because the food was amazing. other servers seemed dedicated and determined but our server although very kind and friendly she was just very slow. Once we were sat it took 15 minutes just to get drinks and refills were hard to ask for and took a while to arrive. she also forgot the bread we ordered and took it away still half full. She was just genuinely slow but that’s ok maybe she was having an off day. I would definitely recommend and i...