Ocean Mist Matunuck

An 1888 Life Saving Service station on the National Register, now serving clam chowder every New England list agrees on, with Atlantic views from the seawall deck that are hard to beat anywhere in Rhode Island.

Narragansett’s breaks are genuinely well-regarded on the East Coast, and Surf Shack gives the surfing crowd a proper bar to anchor the afternoon after the session.

Point Judith’s own fishing fleet heads out every morning, and George’s has been serving the reward since 1948, the last Rhode Island meal before the Block Island Ferry and the first one after.

This Pub knows the difference between serving a community and performing for tourists, and it has chosen the former for South Kingstown’s year-round Matunuck crowd.

Ninety years of fried whole belly clams and a chowder locals have been arguing about since 1936, Flo’s earned its legendary status the old-fashioned way, by just being consistently that good.