Personal experience is invaluable. Va transplant, but a VA native. Nothing wrong with proud natives, especially if they're well informed. It's his birthday on Monday, and I want to take him to a celebratory dinner for great seafood, desserts and a view to match. I've looked in the NC guidebooks, but I can't tell which restaurants are good and which are tourist traps.
Service is impeccable.
Hey, Annapolis, I was going to say exactly the same thing. Portland - if you have time there are some great places to see, mainly Cannon Beach northwest of Portland, and the Willamette Valley vinyards, south and west of the city. I meandered around the area and stopped an an old Victorian house with a trailer out back, and the guy in coveralls was also the vintner. Thanks, Silver Spring. Of course, you may need to save up for a while.