T.L's is one of my favorites on Roanoke Island. They have the best fried oysters anywhere! I'm down in that area so often, I know a lot of the eating hang outs that the locals like. If the locals go there, you know it's going to be good, plus, it helps contend with the off season problem of so many being closed.

Like you, I do not care for the Core Sound clam chowder. I was actually served that for breakfast - at Core Sound on Harkers Island. Yuck! It was good they also offered bisquits and gravy.

Here's a name of a smaller place in VA that I lived for awhile (surely not long enough)- Gloucester. My office was in Ordinary, and my home was in Hayes, which was not far from the Coleman bridge over the York River. My home faced on Sarah's Creek. I'm betting you know the area, Rosalie.