Firetender is the restaurant inside Hotel Manteo. The Weeping Radish Taproom is the bar. Your room is one flight up.

No drive home. No designated driver. No hunting for a parking spot in July.

Stone-oven pizza from a custom Marra Forni, blistered in about ninety seconds. Double smash burgers off the flat top, house pasta, sizzling skillets.

Behind the bar: four Weeping Radish beers on draft, flights and guided tastings.

Dinner Tuesday through Sunday, 5 to 9 p.m. Dine in, takeout or delivery.

This building has been putting people up on Roanoke Island since 1954, when it opened as the Elizabethan Inn.

A full renovation turned it into Hotel Manteo, a Trademark Collection by Wyndham property.

Firetender opened downstairs as part of that rebuild.

A private event floor above the restaurant, seating up to 60.

Weddings and rehearsal dinners. Corporate dinners. Birthdays, reunions and the large family table.

With rooms downstairs for anyone who should not be driving home.

78 rooms, suites and apartments. Spacious, quiet and non-smoking.

Free parking. Free WiFi. 24-hour gym. Seasonal outdoor pool.

Pet-friendly rooms available. Front desk that never closes.

Rooms are booked directly with Hotel Manteo, Trademark Collection by Wyndham.