Front Porch Cafe is a locally-owned coffee shop where you can get your caffeine (or decaf!) fix while enjoying a pastry or cookie and surfing the free wifi. You’ll be in good company too, as this coffee shop is a favorite place for locals and visitors.

In the age of Starbucks, mom and pop coffee shops can be hard to find. Front Porch Cafe offers all the pleasantries of a small coffee shop, while offering a wide variety of the hot and cold coffee and tea beverages you love. Local art decorates the walls and a large mural by a local artist decorates the Nags Head milepost 10.5 location. 

Front Porch Cafe serves Kill Devil Coffee, their own roasted coffee beans from all over the world. When you stop in for a cup of brew, pick up a bag of whole bean or ground coffee by the half or full pound. There are many different varieties to choose from including coffees from Jamaica, Columbia, Costa Rica and other countries well known for coffee, as well as options of organic and fair trade coffees. Local Kill Devil Coffee roasting ensures the beans are fresh and full of flavor. 

Wherever you are on the Outer Banks, Front Porch Cafe isn’t too far away. There are several Front Porch Cafe coffee shops open throughout the Outer Banks, including a shop in Kill Devil Hills at the popular Milepost 6 Plaza, the largest shop in Nags Head and one on Roanoke Island in Manteo. 

All Front Porch Coffee shops are open year round, seven days a week, from 6am-6pm. Winter hours may be shortened on Sundays.


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Kill Devil Hills
Nags Head
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  • Monday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Tuesday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Wednesday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Thursday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Friday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Saturday6:00am-6:00pm
  • Sunday6:00am-6:00pm
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Brew Thru

No trip to the Outer Banks is complete without cruising through Brew Thru, the Outer Banks’ original drive thru convenience store. Whether you’re looking for a refreshing cold beverage of Coke, Pepsi and other soft drinks on the go, stocking up your cooler with refreshments to enjoy at the beach or piling up on beer and wine for a party, Brew Thru is a fun and unique experience all vacationers need to see for themselves.

Drive-Through Beer & Gear

Brew Thru is Your One-Stop Shop at the Beach

The year was 1977, and Dana and Becky Lawrentz were chatting with friends over brews in their hometown of Akron, Ohio. They got to talking about a gas station convenience store in the area that had built a makeshift drive-through. Everyone agreed it would be pretty great if you could actually drive through a convenience store and pick up everything you needed without getting out of the car. But what would you call a place like that?

Well, you’d call it a Brew Thru.

It was an idea they couldn’t shake, so the Lawrentzes moved to the Outer Banks and built the first Brew Thru with the help of a partner. The idea was that people could come buy everything they would need for their trip to the beach—beer, wine, soft drinks, snacks, ice—without getting out of the car. That same year, a t-shirt salesman visiting the store and talked them into adding t-shirts to their product line—and 44 years later there are now more than five million Brew Thru t-shirts out in the wild.

The Lawrentzes’ daughter Brandy and her husband Philip Foreman purchased the business from them in 2002, and they now operate five locations across the Outer Banks.“We love being the one-stop shop for folks on the way to their beach house,” Foreman says. “Our car tenders are the friendliest people at the beach. We’re here to greet you, get you everything you need for your trip, load it up in the trunk for you, and have you leaving with a smile on your face.”

The store is quite expansive, featuring more than 100 brands of beer, dozens of wines and even a vast selection of cigars—not to mention all the snacks, t-shirts and other gear. To make ordering a little easier, customers in line get a menu—fondly known as the Summer-y—that outlines everything available at the store. These Summer-ies are also available in many of the beach rentals, which allows vacationers to decide what they want before driving through.

For customers who would like to get out and stretch their legs, there’s the Brew Thru Shop in Kill Devil Hills, where you can find their world famous t-shirts and other gifts. New t-shirt designs are created each year, making a yearly Brew Thru t-shirt a favorite of locals and annual visitors to the Outer Banks.

The Foremans both grew up in the Outer Banks, and they love that Brandy’s parents’ vision for a friendly and convenient place for people to grab their brews and other beach stay essentials is continuing to flourish.

“Our family has been welcoming people to the Outer Banks since 1977,” Foreman says. “We love this beautiful place, and we want everybody to get to enjoy it.”

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