The Purple Urchin Hampton Beach

New Hampshire’s only ocean beach gets exactly twelve weeks of real summer, and Bernie’s never wastes a single one of them, shoulder-to-shoulder energy the whole season.

The local following is what keeps Wally’s lights on in February when the summer crowd has long gone home, chowder and fried seafood that has earned genuine year-round loyalty.

L Street is the real Hampton Beach, the one that exists past July and August, cold cheap beer and pool tables for the community that actually lives here.