Surf Shack Narragansett

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.

Live bands play nearly every summer night, and the Mist has been the actual center of South County’s social life for decades, surfers, locals, and summer visitors all converging in the same weathered room.

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.