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Tides Restaurant & Pub – 2B Wilson Road – Nahant, MA. 01908 – (781) 593-7500<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open for lunch and dinner at 11:30am. \u00a0Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas<\/p>\n

website: \u00a0http:\/\/www.tidesnahant.com\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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We just returned from a fantastic trip to the Greater Boston area and decided to visit Marblehead, MA. and just chill driving along the shore, stopping wherever the spirit moved us to stop. \u00a0It was one of those days which draws you to the area – sun, warm, some wind – but not a lot.<\/p>\n

We passed Marblehead and were driving along sometimes seeing the water and sometimes passing houses thinking we were moving away from the coast. \u00a0We saw a couple walking their two dogs as we neared a dead end and stopped to ask for their recommendation of a place to eat. \u00a0Their suggestion was “Tides” – a restaurant we passed just minutes before. \u00a0They were sort of hesitant to suggest Tides because they knew the previous owners and didn’t know what was happening at Tides in todays’ world. \u00a0They cautioned us that it might not still be a great place to eat, but from past experience, before ownership changed, they said it was \u00a0really fantastic.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, it was an encounter with New Englanders who fit the stereotype. \u00a0The “new owners” \u00a0bought the place some 20 years ago. \u00a0CHANGE is hard in this part of the world, but after having dinner at Tides we understand why. \u00a0When you find a really fantastic place you don’t want it to change – just stay the same because how do you improve on perfection?<\/p>\n

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We sat on the sun porch and had a glorious meal. \u00a0The menu said “don’t feed the birds”, but as soon as we sat down a sea gull joined us and so we had five for lunch instead of four and that great seagull helped to make our meal. \u00a0He entertained us in ways he had apparently learned paid his benefactors back for their generosity. The restaurant was surrounded by rock outcroppings, sand and the ocean splashing against the rocks. \u00a0With that accompaniment to oysters, shrimp, clams, lobster, haddock we were in heaven. \u00a0We felt as though the fish had just been caught by the owners next door bringing it immediately into the restaurant to fulfill your order. That was our narrative – which is not true – but the location and the porch brought us to that imaginary happening.<\/p>\n

Next time we will bring bathing suits because we were sitting right next to a public beach. \u00a0On a holiday weekend the beach was sparsely populated so we know it is a great place to sun, swim, and paddle around whenever we go, with some certainty that we won’t be tripping over half-nude bodies lying side by side. \u00a0It looked as though that very beautiful beach was peopled by the neighbors – people who lived close by.<\/p>\n

The food was substantial, well cooked and seasoned just perfectly – well except for one of us who brings her Louisiana hot sauce in her pocket book for times like this. \u00a0Each plate was enough for two so we brought our left-overs home and warmed them up for dinner the next evening. \u00a0What a memory that brought back. \u00a0We wondered if we could move next door and eat at Tides on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

The wait staff was exceptional and they appeared whenever we looked around, sometimes anticipating what we were about to ask. \u00a0Dessert was hot fudge sundaes. \u00a0As we ate our dessert the smacking sounds \u00a0should have \u00a0embarrassed us, but it just made the desserts taste better.<\/p>\n

All in all we recommend Tides whenever you are in the North Shore area. \u00a0It is worth the stop or even if you have to drive a few miles out of your way – it is worth the drive.<\/p>\n

There was a Keno Contest going on when we arrived and we were told they offer full service lottery in addition. \u00a0As we waited for a table mesmerized by the view, the hostess told us about their Drink Menu – cocktails, 30 ice cold draft beers, a wide variety of bottled beers and a large wine list. People in the bar were watching a game and we were told they have over 20 HD TVs! \u00a0That was all very nice, but we weren’t interested – the beach, sitting on that incredible sun porch, talking (and feeding) the sea gull which adopted us with really great food was what captivated us.<\/p>\n

We will return!<\/p>\n

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Tides Restaurant & Pub – 2B Wilson Road – Nahant, MA. 01908 – (781) 593-7500 Open for lunch and dinner at 11:30am. \u00a0Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas website: \u00a0http:\/\/www.tidesnahant.com\/home.html *********************** \u00a0 *********************** We just returned from a fantastic trip to the Greater Boston area and decided to visit Marblehead, MA. and just chill driving along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[407,735],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3901"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3901\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}