Front Porch Café: Brewing tradition and growth on the Outer Banks and beyond - The Coastland Times

Front Porch Café: Brewing tradition and growth on the Outer Banks and beyond - The Coastland Times

When Laura Wayland remembers the moment she first imagined Front Porch Café in a former McDonald’s, she smiles. It wasn’t a blueprint or a business meeting that conjured the image — it was a Tony Robbins event, a mental snapshot of herself standing inside that very building. A few years and plenty of persistence later, the gutted golden-arches property in Kitty Hawk hums with grinders, steam and the same small-town warmth that has made Front Por…