Ocean Pours Taproom

The Irish pub formula translates surprisingly well to foggy Washington coast weather, cold Guinness and good craic feeling entirely at home under the same gray skies.

Porthole Pub keeps Ocean Shores honest through the long gray Pacific Northwest winters, not just the summer crowd, cold drafts and pub food that never bothered dressing up for tourists.

Cash only, simple tables, and fish pulled straight off the boats working one of the Pacific Northwest’s most active commercial fishing ports, Bennett’s does not need to be anything fancier than that.

The world’s longest beach has been pulling visitors in for over a century, and Castaways gives the Long Beach Peninsula exactly the kind of unpretentious cold drink that setting demands.

Twenty-eight uninterrupted miles of Pacific sand make Long Beach the longest beach in the continental US, and the Pickled Fish matches that scale with razor clam chowder made from the beach right outside the door.