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Overall Total Score
4.5 out of 5
Outstanding | 1283 reviews

What User doesn't like about John's Drive In:
We’ve been eating here for years. We live in KDH part time and always enjoy our beachside burgers, dolphin sub, fries and shakes. Quality has gone down over the past 2 3 years. Fries are always under cooked and have had to have them cooked longer to make them crispy and hot the last 2 visits. The burgers are the size of a kids burger at McDonald’s. The Dolphin sub was cold like it had been sitting out for a few sever... View all feedback. What User likes about John's Drive In:
Good service. Very very fast even when busy. Parking is tight but real estate is at a premium here. When we came the owner was cooking. Generous portions for the price. Clean. Appreciate the giant milkshake straws. Milkshakes aren’t bad but they are basically vanilla with toppings as it says so the peach shake didn’t taste peachy but again that’s on me not the restaurant. It’s clearly labeled. Love this place. View all feedback.

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3.8 ★ from 17 reviews

Our experience wasn?t great. We ordered two milkshakes two cones. It wasn?t super busy, just a steady amount of customers? our milkshakes came out before the co...

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Good service. Very very fast even when busy. Parking is tight but real estate is at a premium here. When we came the owner was cooking. Generous portions for th...

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Limited parking, very limited parking spaces. The Cheeseburger was the size of my palm, like, literally, the whole burger and bungalow was the size of my palm....

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Crab cake boat was top notch! Place was busy, large orders in front of us, still barely waited more than 4 minutes! Amazing!! I?m going to be missing these crab...

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Good service. Very very fast even when busy. Parking is tight but real estate is at a premium here. When we came the owner was cooking. Generous portions for th...

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Yelp
4.1 ★ from 176 reviews
Dan
02.07.2024 - 09:57

What happened to what use to be GREAT Dolphin boats? I like a little more fish with my bad batter. Raise the cost don't cheapen the product.

Diana
02.07.2024 - 09:57

Came here as a quick lunch stop on our way out of OBX. The drive in area was convenient but had only a few parking spots so luckily we didn't come at too busy o...

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Brian
02.07.2024 - 09:57

I have been going to the Outer Banks for 30 years and my wife has for even longer and we would always make a point of stopping at John 's for dolphin boats, the...

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Art
02.07.2024 - 09:57

We had a great fish sando here (dolphin fish, AKA mahi-mahi, for the uninitated). We were told this little food stand is reminiscient of how OBX used to be. If...

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Tammy
02.07.2024 - 09:57

Had to drive by a couple of times to get a parking spot but well worth it!! Two fried mahi sandwiches two chocolate shakes. With giant straws. Nice picnic table...

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Sirved
4.5 ★ from 420 reviews

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