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Clam Digger Inn & Restaurant
511 Salter Path Road  
Ramada Inn
Pine Knoll Shores, NC 28512 (Map)
800-338-1533
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All the rooms at the Clamdigger Inn are oceanfront. The rooms all have wall safes, cable TVs, microwaves, refrigerators, and wireless Internet access. The hotel features a cocktail lounge with a seating capacity of 150, an outdoor swimming pool & hot tub, a game room, and room service. The famous Clamdigger Restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and supper. It has seating for 100. The Clamdigger also has Meeting and Banquet Facilities which can accommodate 150. At the Clamdigger Restaurant, ''Our Specialty is Fresh, Local Seafood.''
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| Value: |  | Service: |  | Food: | | | Ambiance: |  | Wine List: |  | Beds: | | | Quality: | | Bar: | | Food: | | | Great Bargain! | | By Rick on 6/26/2008 | | Have spent several long weekends there over the last 3 years. As others have indicated, it is not 5 star for sure, but for the cost/benefit, it's great. I've traveled on business/pleasure quite a bit so I've spent time in everything from the Sleep Inn type hotels to the 4 star type in resorts. Have had many, many meals there at the Clamdigger: breakfast, lunch and dinner. ALL were top tier! All good values. Service was very good. Overlook the dated decor; get out and enjoy the beach! | |
| 3 of 3 people found this review helpful: | | Food Poisoning! | | By Kimee on 2/4/2008 | | My family has vacationed in EI, NC for 10+ years. We will NEVER forget 2003. Our ''farewell dinner'' was at the Clamdigger. My sister-in-law had the Chicken Parm. Took 1.5 hours to bring out the food, service was horrible, bill was $120.00 for 4 adults, 1 child (no drinks- we're driving home.) By the time we returned to our rental, my SIL was puking. We called the restaurant, and they said, ''You can't prove it was us.'' Classy! We moan at the memory each year as we drive past this horrible place! | |
| 2 of 2 people found this review helpful: | | It's not a four star restaurant! | | By an NCBeaches Guest on 1/20/2008 | | My husband and I have eaten at the Clamdigger a few times. I must agree it's decor does need an ''extreme makeover'' but the food and service is actually pretty good. | |
| 2 of 2 people found this review helpful: | | Service: |  | Food: | | Ambiance: | | | Food: | | | | Food was excellent! | | By Annie on 10/3/2007 | | My husband, mother & I ate at the Clamdigger because of the recommedation of a local friend. The service was good, and the food was excellent. We ate dinner (at 6:00 pm) twice during the week. The oysters were the best to be found at the beach, fried perfectly, with a wonderful flavor. The stuffed crab was very good, and the fried shrimp were large and flavorful. All this was served with fresh hot hushpuppies, baked potatoes, and good slaw. The decor in the beachfront room could use an upgrade, but the food was fine. The other dining room, the Clamdigger Room, has a nautical theme. Would recommend highly for dinner. | |
| 5 of 5 people found this review helpful: | | Value: | | Service: | | Food: | | | Ambiance: | | Food: | | | | Restaurant review only | | By an NCBeaches Guest on 7/9/2007 | My wife and I were recommended by the staff of our hotel to try the Clamdigger Hotel Restaurant. ''It's where the locals eat,'' they said. Apparently the locals like to dine in grungy 70s decor with lots of healthy flies. The restaurant is very dark. Not in a ''what a cute bistro'' sort of a way, but in a ''better watch grandma, 'cause she's gonna go face down in the ferns when she trips'' sort of a way. We sat at a table in a room that apparently doubled as the hotel ballroom--glass walls with metal dividers over grungly, stained blue-spotted carpet that, in this case,masked the myriad houseflies crawling all over. The sanitation grade, I'd noticed on the way in was high, somewhere over 99 but the health inspector must have taken a sick day when he got here. I counted over ten flies circling around our table, pestering us while we ate, and crawling all over the window leading to the beach, which killed the view for me.
We ate a late lunch which had a reduced menu. Anytime something is paired with a word where it does not belong, I am suspect. ''Fish'', for example does not go with ''burger'' yet on the menu they offered a ''fishburger,'' ''shrimpburger,'' and an ''oysterburger.'' The selections for normal hamburgers, hot dogs, and the like were there, but, having had the recommendation, we tried the seafood. The lunch plates ranged from $12.95 to $15.95 for simple one item seafood plates, served with the standard NC french fries (or onion rings) and coleslaw (mayonnaise based). We chose to try the sandwiches which were less unreasonably priced at $7 to $9. My ''oysterburger'' was served on the finest Merita white bun they had to offer. The oysters were tender and without pieces of shell, but were fried too ''hard,'' that is to say, fried too long and were greasy. The french fries were mediocre and similarly overdone. The slaw was passable but dry and needed salt and pepper for flavor. Frankly, I've had better hushpuppies served with what those folks in Tennessee term barbecue and most of that thick-sauced stuff isn't edible. The hushpuppies were dry, thin, and without flavor. Even the cocktail sauce was the barest whisper above ketchup. My wife got the shrimp scampi sandwich which she liked fairly well. It was several sauteed schrimp in butter (all popcorn-sized) laid on a kaiser roll (recall my white bread wonder roll) and covered with a slice of melted white cheese, probably muenster. Her onion rings were good, but fried a bit too long and, again, greasy.
Being from rural North Carolina, I've eaten a lot of fried seafood in my day and I know good fried fish from bad. This place is a definite miss. From the airport lounge decor to the food from the grease pit, I don't plan on going back anytime soon. | |
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Terms: Clam Digger Inn & Restaurant
Clam Digger Inn & Restaurant, located in Pine Knoll Shores -- part of the Crystal Coast of North Carolina.
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