The Blue Point — Restaurant in Duck

The Blue Point provides an outstanding dining experience. While ownership has passed in 2021 from the original owners to the new owners, siblings Ryan, Leigh, and Jamie Raskin. The trio has continued the tradition of culinary excellence in Duck, NC. I've traveled the country and have dined in New York, LA, Chicago, etc. etc. and The Blue Point rivals any place I've been for location, ambience, service and quality of apps, small and large plates, and drinks. As anyone who has dined at The Blue Point knows, the location offers a view of spectacular sunsets.

Once inside the restaurant, you note the cool and unique design that the original owners John Power and Sam McGann brought to their space 30+ years ago. Vintage tables, booths, lighting, bar area with comfy seating. It's like comfort for the soul sitting down and nestled into your space. Our server, Mark, was outstanding. Attentive, not overbearing, providing space in time to ponder the drink and food menus. A server elevates the experience or deflates it- Mark's interaction with our 6-person party was perfectly calibrated.

Our drink orders were prepared to perfection. Key to the beginning of our anticaped fun. Beverages ignite the party or drown it. Our drinks lit the fuse and the party was on.

We began with the Blue Point Carolina she crab bisque. It was delicious and served at just the right temperature to bring out all of the flavor. That was joined by the soft crab on cole slaw- well plated, and prepared. The mixed green salad was prepared with pickled strawberries toasted sunflower seeds and strawberry vincotto vinaigrette. A cacophony of flavors working so well.

The hit were the fried green tomatoes. Lightly battered,fried, and with tasty pimento cheese. Our group raved over them.

Just when we thought things could not get any better, the entrees were served. Scalloped cooked to perfection on quinoa, with roasted apples, aleppo spiced pork lordons, raisins and apple brown butter vinaigrette. The southern shrimp and mill grits with scallops, smoked tasso ham. Exquisite texture, taste.

The Virginia catfish did not taste like chicken- lol. Because it was served lightly breaded, with red beans and rice with alligator sausage, house pickles (yum), topped with Cajun ramoulade. Last, the special flounder was outstanding.

Our dessert was shared creme broule and topped off an overall 5 star dining experience.

Kudos to the chef, sous chef and the entire service staff. I cannot say enough good things about The Blue Point. Do not miss this place while...

We had a reservation for 8 and were seated promptly. Shortly after being seated, we noticed water started running from the ceiling in our section near our table. The staff obviously knew about this and reacted promptly to catch the water. Luckily no one was seated under the leak. Dinner went well, our server was attentive, but a little pushy, insisting that we order our starters and meals all at once, then discouraged that we needed a little more time. Our meals came out in a timely fashion and were good, but not great and didn't exactly reflect the pricing paid. When we received the dessert menus, things took a turn for the worse when water started pouring out of a ceiling panel above our table, and onto one of our guests lap.

Everyone on that side of the table stood up immediately and when we notified our server, she asked if we wanted the check then!

Not "oh my gosh, I'm terribly sorry", but " do you want the check then?" and "you'll dry" to our wet guest.

We said yes please and then notified the front of house, as it appeared the server was unconcerned. They didn't seem to care either and acted as if it was somehow our fault. We did hear one staff member scowl about "not again!?" with regard to the leak.

We were told it was because of the rain storms 24hrs ago in an attempt to claim there is nothing they can do, but it is assuredly from A/C condensate run off which can be easily fixed.

After paying, we expressed our disappointment and left to go have a drink at the attached outdoor sunset bar "BackBar".

The setting was very nice and bartender was great. As we ordered our drinks, a staff member from inside the resteraunt came running out and went behind the bar and whispered into the bartenders ear. All while not engaging or making eye contact with us. We are unsure what this was about, but we asked the bartender later, and she just said "I'm not getting involved".

I would like to note that we never asked or requested any special service or discount. I guess after spending $100/person, a sincere apology was expected by our party, not attitude and spite for getting rained on.

All in all, the Blue Point is a nice setting with mediocre food for its price and service that treats it's patrons like an obstacle.

Hopefully they fix the leak in the ceiling and other customers don't get rained on.

I would not recommend dining there, but would recommend taking in a sunset...

Let me start by saying I don't only leave reviews when I don't like the place. I had high hopes after looking at the ratings. It is no exaggeration when I say this was one of the worst meals my wife and I have had in a long, long time. Nothing was remotely fresh and it's insanely overpriced.

Biscuit sliders: dry, cold, hard, and burnt on the bottom. They had clearly been reheated. Sent them back and told them we didn't want it. I rarely do that. It was really that bad.

Mac and cheese: again, cold and hard. Sent it back for another (since kids needed something to eat). Came back sort of hot, edible at least but still bland.

Crab bisque: pretty good, the only thing I liked. Hard to mess up crab soup.

Crab cakes: I thought these would be impossible to mess up, but guess what? They did. Served with some dry corn and beans, bready, and the worst part of all, tasted fishy and old. Literally thought it was impossible to serve a bad crab cake.

Duck: Way too salty, had little pockets of salt where it was all concentrated. Mushy pasta and mushrooms with it. Sort of dry.

Green beans: hardly cooked, flavorless... Like frozen beans with a tiny bit of butter. Didn't eat.

Maybe you think I just like to complain.... I don't. For 2 adults and two young kids, we paid about $180 for a meal that was frankly disgusting - and I don't use that word lightly. Fishy crab cakes. Wow. They have no business charging this much.

If you want the view, eat somewhere else and have a drink outside. We had NC Coast grill the night before, which...