Description: Make your reservations and plan to spend a couple of hours in this inviting space. The Blue Point has been around for awhile, but this location in the Waterfront Shops is expanded, new, and it is exceptional. Cork ceiling tiles hung with contemporary lighting reveal a stylish ambience. The walls are a honey wood with darker casings around the windows. The banquette seating is red and the floor is a black and white checker board while table tops are wood, reflecting the coloration of the walls, and without linens other than the heavy napkins. Apparently, part of the look that the owners were going for was big, old beach cottage… but it is a very sleek beach cottage. Part of the room is dominated by a granite-topped bar while a gleaming kitchen is open to the rest; the feel of the place is perfect and it has attracted quite a local clientele… it is very busy and somewhat noisy.
The chefs have boldly stated that their ambition is to do a few things well, so the menu is somewhat limited in its choices of southern regional cooking. The starters include she crab soup, baby back ribs, tuna crudo and sea scallops in the $9 to $12 range. Entrées include catfish, lump crab meat, pork chops, shrimp, beef tenderloin, crab cakes, tuna and flounder in the $25 to $30 range. Actually, describing the menu that way is a complete injustice, because all these dishes are very creative… and delicious.
We opted for the crab cakes and the beef tenderloin. Both were well presented and quite exceptional in every way. Side vegetables for the beef included shiitake mushrooms, potatoes and beans in a white sauce while the meat itself was perfection. Add a bottle of wine from a reasonably large selection, and it turned into a perfect evening.
If you choose an early dinner, or possibly lunch, you will have a view out over Carrituck Sound and enjoy a different kind of ambience coupled with great service and great food. The website is Blue Point/A>.
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