If you're lucky, you're staying in a cottage with a fig tree in the yard. Yum!
Figs on the Menu! (Savory & Sweet)
*Ocracoke Coffee Shop:Fig scones, Fig cake, Fig muffins, and Fig cream cheese (for your favorite bagel!)
*Graceful Bakery (in the Community Store): Fig scones, Fig rolls, and Fig muffins
*Ocracoke Oyster Company: Fig-smoked BBQ, Fig & scallion vinaigrette
*Fig Tree Deli: Fig cake, Fig bars, Fig pastry
*Flying Melon Café: Grilled Ocracoke Figs over whipped chevre with arugula, prosciutto, & balsamic reduction; Rack of lamb with Fig demi-glace; Figs Foster (sautéed figs with brown sugar, rum, and butter sauce served a la mode.
*Dajio Restaurant: Fig Cake
*Back Porch Restaurant & Wine Bar: Figs, prosciutto, and pomegranate molasses; Island Fig cake; Figgy toffee pudding; Figgy gin fizz cocktail
*Jason’s Restaurant: Cheesecake with cinnamon Fig Sauce; Goat cheese, prosciutto, and dried fig appetizer
*1718 Brewery: Notorious F.I.G. beer
Figs to Take Home!
Local fig preserves are available at these locations:
*OPS Museum Gift Shop
*Village Craftsmen (also: Fig-infused tea, and free Fig cake on Fridays at 11am)
*Zillie’s Island Pantry
*Ocracoke Variety Store
Learn to Cook Figs!
Local cookbooks are available at these locations:
*Books to Be Red
*OPS Museum Gift Shop
*Ocracoke Variety Store
*Island Ragpicker
Plant a Tree!
Fig trees are available at the Fig Festival and also from:
*Ocracoke Garden Center