My friends and I decided to try out Barefoot Bob's after a nice fun day at the beach. When I first saw it, the tiki bar looked nice and the out door patio looked nice but because we had such a big party we decided to eat indoors rather than wait for a table. (Thank god because it ended up down pouring rain). Some of us were disappointed that there were no "Famous bob's lobster rolls" and all of our soda's were flat.
Half my friends, including my boyfriend ordered the fishermans platter (mix of fried clams, scallops, and shrimp). The fisherman's platter was horrible. Nothing but grease and oil. The scallops and shrimps were tiny and the clam strips barely had any clams to it at all. Definitely not worth the $20. I've definitely had WAY better.
Then there was the steak tips with BBQ flavor. Half the steak tips were raw on the inside and extremely chewy and soft. Definitely undercooked. My friends had the chowder and it was way too salty. They also didn't enjoy their cheeseburgers. (idk how you could mess that one up! Apparently even McDonalds does a better job at making burgers. smh)
Overall, not worth going to eat. You're better off buying food from the stands if you're in Hull, less expensive and would taste better. I can't believe this place was on Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsay. We definitely will not be back.
I was super excited to try out barefoot bob's beach grill after watching their episode on kitchen nightmare. and after a day of beach fun, i dragged my group of 12 friends there. The patio looked nice but because our party was so large, we were seated inside. the decor was poorly done and it was so dimly lit.
For starters, their sodas were flat and tasteless. We ordered onion rings and their "famous" clam chowders... the onion rings were ehh, nothing too great but not bad. their clam chowder had to be the saltiest thing ever! When I was able to flag down a waitress and asked if it was normally that salty, her response was ... "well, its made by the ocean"... I'm not sure what that meant ...
They ran out of the lobster roll and so me and half of my group ordered their fisherman's plate. nothing but batter and disgusting oil, no taste... just BLEH ! their mash was cold and there was absolutely no seasoning what so ever (should've poured the clam chowder over it). mickey d's makes better fries than them!
my waitress was nice and although she didn't bring us everything in a timely manner, she didn't forget anything either.
its safe to say that i will not be returning to Barefoot Bob's ever again.
This place has been going down hill for years.  It's finally hit rock bottom.  Went there today for lunch....most of the staff is gone and the new staff is rude and lazy. One of our foursome was not eating so we were informed we could not have  high top outside unless EVERYONE ordered food.  WTF?   The place is dirty.......God know's what the kitchen is like. I hope someone buys it and fixes what is wrong.  It's just awful.  We used to go everyday during the summer.  Not anymore.  Now we do the Parrot of Daddies.......which are not much better but at least the people are decent and they're clean.  Bye, bye Bob's.
Review Source:Rude wait staff and the food is really generic. They give little effort or pride in their service and food. The only redeeming quality of this place is the view. They refused to move an umbrella over from one table for my pregnant wife. They were also irritated we were not drinking non stop (We only ordered food and iced tea)
Review Source:We stopping in this weekend for a drink and late lunch after a day at the beach. Â Going in, I wasn't expecting a culinary experience - it's a beach bar - just decent food and a cold beer. Â
The wait for a table was only about 10 minutes. Both the bartender and our server were very nice and attentive. The hostess - well, she was what you would expect from a high school/college kid with an attitude. Really, is it that hard to give a time estimate when you say there's a wait? Â Sorry I asked you to do your job.
I had a chicken sandwich and my fiance had a fried oyster sandwich - both were much better than expected.
What's really driving the two star rating is the smoking. Â Ok, I understand that technically smoking on a patio is a loophole in the no smoking law, but really? The majority of restaurants and bars have taken is upon themselves to make smokers go outside the patio area. Â Allowing people to smoke at their table? Unacceptable. Period. Â The vast majority of us don't want to be inhaling your second hand smoke while we eat. It's disgusting and trashy - way to be a classless bar.
Dined here for the first time yesterday and I will never return. Â I rarely write reviews, but felt compelled as I feel violated for spending my hard-earned money here.
First, the good:
-Our waitress was friendly
-The Lobster Roll sandwich was good
-Stuffed quahogs were good
The Bad:
-I watched from afar as the bartender making my drink used her bare hand as a strainer
-My fiancee's mojito tasted like sugar water
-The service was very slow. Â ~35 mins for 3 entrees.
-The stuffed shrimp was nothing more than a ball of bread stuffing
-The seafood sampler had scallops chewy as erasers and haddock that tasted like tin.
We did not complain about any of these issues at the time and in hindsight I wish we would have. Â Two of the three entrees should have been sent back. Â A $90 meal for three of us and it makes me feel ill thinking of how badly it was wasted.
If you're going to ask a world class chef for help and advice then why not take it? Â After watching the Kitchen Nightmares episode, my fiancee found a groupon to go here. Â We figured we would give it a shot since Chef Ramsay addressed their issues. Â Unfortunately, this place needs his help once again. Â We were seated quickly and our server got our drinks to us quickly. Â We then ordered our food and it took a ridiculous 50 minutes for our appetizer to come out. Â After several failed attemps to flag our server down, she apologized and blamed it on the fact that the kitchen was backed up and that 2 of the cooks got heat stroke the previous day and that they had their "B" team cooking. I'm sorry but it was a 90 degree Saturday, you should be prepared for the droves of beachgoers that will be coming to your restaurant. Â Our food finally came and it was unappetizing looking and tasting. Â The Mahi Mahi tacos were awful and had huge quartered chunks of tomatoes on them with a mango salsa on the side?My fiancee's lobster roll was full of lobster meat but was lacking any form of seasoning. Â They have apparently ignored all of Chef Ramsay's advice and went back to the old menu which is a ridiculous 4 pages long and filled with frozen delights such as chicken fingers. This place is not good in fact it's dreadful. It's basically a place to have a drink..period! Â Don't come for the food or the service which are both awful.
Review Source:The worst! Not only was it 100 outside:/
But the wait was 20 min and the bartender was the most nasty rude girl ever!!!
First! She asked for I'd which is only right! The nasty rude girl says we need a cc for each in a nasty tone we were like wtf huh? She was just so rude we walked right out!!!! Never ever will go again just the west nasty place dirty stink rude girl .
Pls spend yur money else where people u can get yur food at stop and shop frozen  food plus enjoy yur very own dinks a ha ;)
My husband and I live in Hull. We have frequently gone to this establishment before and after Kitchen Nightmares. Have had some awesome meals. Tonight my usual Haddock NANTASKET was horrible and missing ingredients, the service was slow..which is bad news with our 18 month old grandson and other family there to celebrate my birthday. At the front as we were waiting to pay our bill we watched as the hostess sat at the front desk-podium and took 10 pictures of herself making several faces on her phone! Yes 10...we watched and counted! I was totally embarrassed that I chose this place to celebrate with my guest after talking it up as one of the better places in Hull. The only reason I would give the second star is because we have had good food before and hope this was just an off day.
Review Source:Had a Groupon and went on Mother's day. Â Sat ourselves to a table inside. Â The chairs were covered with crumbs and not wiped down. Had the worst cheeseburger I have ever had. The onion rings were very dry and tasted like seafood....no doubt because I had a few little fried clams on my plate and I detest clams. Â Bar looked well stocked. So if you want to hang on the beach, go there for a few drinks and eat because you're starving.....this place would be the perfect dive. Â They need Robert Irvine from Restaurant Impossible to visit!
Review Source:By it's outward appearance, it's not what one would define as being a "classy" place.
However, one cannot always judge a book by it's cover and automatically assume that it's not a decent place to sit, have drinks, eat, and socialize with friends. On the contrary the atmosphere was decent, despite the lack of class, and the food was pretty decent in amount, taste, and price. It was even cozy enough to sit back and chill w/ a few drinks. I would definitely go back to this place, if and when I am in the area.
This place is nasty I was seated in a dirty booth with a sticky top, my girl that I was with wanted to leave but I stood firm, I should have listened to her, like i said first impression was this place is nasty, that's all I can say, the floor has holes in it and you can see throught them, the food is all frozen stuff, why do I constantly pick bad places to go to? Why? Maybe I'm bad luck? Anyway, whatever Ramsey did here this place looks nothing like, this is nasty, the food it horrible, I had Chowder, Fish and chips and a side of Botchalism as I got sick from this place, Nasty with a capital N. Oh and I love it when the server went "What you'se getting from the bar?" and I answered 2 cokes and she said, "Really? from the bar you want Coke" this took like 15 minutes to do as she stopped to text, hit somebody from the kitchen, grab a fry off a plate going by and have a cigarette, and may I add the bar is like 12 feet away from my booth. My girl, she ordered nothing but the coke and didn't even drink it. the chowder came out in a coffee cup, I can't make this up. the fish and raw chips was horrid. Ugh I'm getting sick writing this. Never in a million hours would I ever go back to this place. You can just tell when people who work here just don't care about the place they are working at. Needless to say I'm pretty sure the food I didn't touch was probably eaten by the waitress. may god have mercy on the soul of this restaurant.
Review Source:So I popped in here on one of those Sunday afternoons in April that ended up being way warmer than anyone expected. The waitress informed us that they were out of about half of the appetizers and a few other things, too. She said they just got swamped. Well, hey. It happens.
One of my friends tried this cajun brocolli pasta-majigy and it was actually pretty stinkin' good.
A little sleazy? Yes. Tacky? Majorly. Big bar? Check. Obnoxious college kids? Yup. But I can totally see this place being awesome after a day spent in the surf across the street, on Nantasket Beach.
Yeh, I'm a fan.
I watched an episode of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares and saw BBs restaraunt get a much needed makeover! I felt like this particular episode was great bc I'm from Boston and thought this would be a great opportunity to taste Gordon's recipes (while supporting a local restaraunt)! The episode aired a while ago and I've been dying to go ever since. Well, today was the day!!! And what a huge disappointment!! Let's start with the appearance, shall we? Gordon came in, took that tacky tiki crap off the walls and made it look clean, and crisp. When we walked in there today, it was dark, the walls were multi colored (red,blue, white)? The tacky tiki look was back and well, I was seriously thinking we had gone to the wrong place! (I googled it while we were there just to make sure). We had been seated in the dining room (we were asked to pick a seat ourselves) and then we waited... And waited... And waited some more. Finally, when the waitress came over, we ordered our drinks and tried to order our meal... She politely informed us they were out of scallops. (ok, that's like burger king being out of burgers!!) Anyway, my husband needed "a second" to look at the menu again. Literally, we waited 20 minutes before she came back with our drinks and then finally took our order. (Sigh, im starving btw)... Ok, the food... It was good... The clam chowder (which, when I ordered this after placing my meal order, got me a death look from the waitress) was awesome!! The fried seafood was just ok... Not worth the drive to see a run down shack, hole in the wall with "meh" food and poor service though. I won't go again, and to be truthful I'm really annoyed. The place looked great after KN did its thing. BUT... The owners went back to their old ways and that is their perogative but IMO it sucked before KN and it sucks yet again. The bartender that was working at BB when the show aired hated the makeover & said "we are a seafood place, we feed people & get people drunk"... That's the feeling you get when you go in there now... A place to go to eat and drink... Which is fine, I like that, but really? I can do that at home. I give this place two stars and that's for the clam chowder! You can keep your tacky tiki!
Review Source:This is a dive beach bar, we've been coming for years. We stick to the summer months when visiting the beach. Â They went back to a lot of the old menu after Kitchen Nightmares made the place/menu over last year. Â The decor never really changed after the show came in, just fresh paint and new wall art work (a bunch of different ropes tied in different knots)
The seafood is basic fare, love the fried oysters when they have them. Â The staff is friendly. We trickle in and out while spending the day at the beach, and they are always accommodating. Â It's a beach bar that does what it needs to....serves cold drinks and seafood quickly without a lot of fuss.
Um, where do I start? Its bad...like really bad.
I ended up going this past week to show the place some support after catching the episode of Kitchen Nightmare. My bullet points are below.
1. This place is not clean, almost to the point of a constant odor.
2. The food is "meh", clams and scallops are not good...I mean, we're in New England, seafood should be a staple if its on the menu.
3. The service was slow and unprofessional
Just nothing good came out of the experience.
While on vacation my wife & I thought we would check out BFB's and the "new" look. What a mistake, we soon found out that they were not happy with the Gordon Ramsey look and wasted no time in returning this place back to the beach dump it has been. Walking up to the back of the restaurant from the beach is a lesson in who doesn't give a shit on first impressions, cig butts & other trash are everywhere. We had to wait 10 minutes for them to open, give me a break, obviously the only rule they follow here. We sat at the bar finally ordered drinks and waited & waited & waited for the bartender who was obviously impressed with the story from another patron, wow are we taking time from your life or do you have a job ? The clam roll I ordered came pressed, as it was under the salad plate my wife ordered, hell why be surprised at this tasty bun of flat once frozen strips, the bartender wasn't, nor was she concerned with bringing the tarter sauce I asked for until we were finished eating, but in her defense she did bring the 2nd round of drinks quickly. The food was at best passable, as a wise old man once said, been there, done that, never again. It's a shame, with a little effort from the owner down to the waitstaff this could be one hellava go-to place on the beach but until light dawns over their marble heads it ain't gonna happen. Move along nothing to see here.
Review Source:Would give it a 0 star if possible. Got a Groupon and as looking for a local area restaurant we could make a regular so we decided to try. My daughter got the steak tips and they were disgusting. I tried one just to see and I couldn't eat it as it was so bad. It tasted as if it was gone off. The seasoning on the fish was tasteless actually everything we ordered was either tasteless or horrible  except for the onion rings. French fries were rock hard. Also the service was horrendous, one person for all the tables until we were leaving. Everything other than the onion rings was awful. The worst thing is I have 1 other groupon left but none of us want to go back.
Review Source:I like trying new places to eat because sometimes you find a real jewel in the rough but this place is way too rough and there's nothing good about this eatery. This ghastly small, Â cramped, and loud pub is full of loud and obnoxious patrons and waitstaff. The food is bad and not fresh. I don't know how you screw up chilli but they found a way where the meat was mushy and the cheese was awful! Â The waitress was slow and unapologetic about it. When I was brought the wrong meal, I got attitude. I don't recommend this place.
Review Source:Decided to try Bobs after seeing the kitchen makeover show particularly I wanted to try the fish and chips after seeing Gordon Ramsey make them there.
I'm afraid they certainly weren't to Gordon's original recipe, I found the batter to be too thin, a personal preference, and I also prefer the fish to be a whole fillet not "fish bits" I'm also constantly surprised at how many seafood places still use frozen chips (fries).
After saying that the actual fish itself was delicious, flaky, white and mild tasting.
Slaw and tartare sauce were nice and tasted fresh.
The highlight of the meal was the clam chowder app i had, delicious broth with red skin potatoes and juicy clams, a winner!
Service was prompt and friendly, I'm sure we will be back, there were several menu items I'm looking forward to trying on our next visit.
It makes me sad to give this place an updated one star review but I really have no choice. Â Bob's used to be our "go-to" place in Hull when we had guests visit and everyone we brought here loved it. Â But, those days are long gone and after today (when we use the last of our Groupons) we probably will never eat here again.
Like I said, we LOVED this place: Great pizzas, great wings, great apps, great pasta dishes, interesting specials etc. Â We loved it so much when there was a Groupon deal a few months back, we purchased four of them. Â Now we've been forcing ourselves to use them up and not waste money and every meal we've had in the process has been subpar.
I'll take a brief moment to discuss the decor. Â Say what you want about what Ramsay did or didn't do, I thought his decor was better. Â Maybe BB's/Hull isn't perfect for nautical knots but it certainly looked cleaner with the new chairs/new paint colors etc. Â For whatever reason now when you go in there, the decor is somewhere in between the old and new - some new items are there but old decor (like the horrible thatched matting on the wall and cheesy flip flops) have been put back up and it just looks horrible. If you want to go back to the old tackiness, go ahead, but do it 100%. Â The mismatched of tacky surf joint meets modern nautical just looks horrendous.
On to the food. As many other Yelper's have noted, their menu is extremely limited compared to what it used to be and while that approach generally helps a restaurant improve food quality, I feel at Bob's it has done the opposite. Â It doesn't help that they have pretty much eliminated every dish that was absolutely delicious before. Â It seems that they are trying to specialize in fried seafood.
Of the four Groupons purchased, here's how the trips played out:
1) Ordered a Chicken Wrap, Cobb Style & Pulled Pork Sandwich. Â The Chicken Wrap was ok enough - nothing special. Â Friend who got the Pulled Pork Sandwich really enjoyed it.
2) Ordered Baked Cod and Mixed Grill (with steak tips and chicken). Â My baked cod was absolutely disgusting. I don't know if they just buy a terrible quality of fish or don't know how to cook it but it wasn't flaky at all and it was drowning in so much butter the bread crumb topping was all mushy. Â I could barely finish it. Â Fiancee had the mixed grill - said chicken was mediocre and steak tips were tough.
3) This time we brought a group of people. I went for the Cobb Salad as I didn't want anything fried (apparently a crime here) and after last time's baked cod disaster, I opted for a salad. It was decent enough, but it's a salad. Â Fiancee got the fish and chips - also disappointing. Â The piece of fish was mushy and fell apart (hence us not thinking they get very good fish there). Â The other two with us got fried clam rolls, said they were satisfactory but nothing to really write home about.
Tonight is trip #4, the day the Groupon expires. Â I'll probably just end up getting a few sides of vegetables because at this point everything else was just a disappointment. Â Looks like the Sea Dog will have to go back to being our go to place in Hull.
It's interesting to see how much these reviews vary - seems like people either like it or they hate it!
Had dinner here with my mom and sister after my mom informed us that she had purchased a groupon. We hadn't been here in literally years, so I was definitely interested to see what it was like. We all stuck with pretty easy stuff (seafood for Mom and W, chicken fingers for me), and I can't say anything bad. Decent food, decent price, and I had half of my meal left for lunch the next day. What's there to complain about?
Omg this place is so f-in gross. Came here during a weekday afternoon. They had 2 waitresses working both of whom were trying to get every customer out of their so fast. 2 hostesses were just sitting there reading books and texting. That stuff wouldnt normally bother me but IM PAYING TO EAT HERE and the service is unbearable. The food was so disgusting and it wasnt like we had a complicated order. Steak tips and grilled chicken. I wouldnt serve that chicken to a dog im not kidding you it was so disgusting i couldnt even swallow it. The waitress brang the check over DIRECTLY after we got our food without asking us how things were or if we needed anything or perhaps if i just got instant food poisoning from looking at their nasty food. The ONLY reason this place is getting a star is because they filled my wine glass to the very top. Thanks!
Review Source:All I can ask is...what the heck happened to this place? Bobs never pretended to be anything more than it was. A sort of tiki themed year round bar with pretty good food. And that was fine. They close for a month or two because Mr. TV star (?) Gordon Ramsey is gonna feature them on the show. I dunno, I don't watch foodie shows. Anyway, this place is just not fun anymore. The new and "improved" decor is lame and loosely attempts to be nautical vs tropical. Dark blue or black walls have replaced reed grass wall coverings and goofy framed knots have replaced surfing schwag. This is Hull, people, not Nantucket. Menu is a mere shadow of it was. Mr Ramsey must have deemed the old menu as too confusing for the average patron to comprehend. Puh-lease! Save your business while you can. Nobody's gonna mind the old barefoot's.
Review Source:Ok - I feel like I'm being "Punked" by Barefoot Bob's... it's never been fine dining - but it was always decent.
Revisited about a week ago - the clam chowder was nearly flavorless with a gelatinous texture and we also ordered the crab (or lobster?) stuffed mushrooms - the mushrooms were cooked decently but there was no crab/lobster in that stuffing :/ Total rip off...
I ordered a broiled something or other - and I got fries w/it but had asked for a baked potato. The hubs had some sandwich which was also forgettable.
C'mon Bob - get it together!!
So, we used to go here a lot. Maybe not a LOT, but frequently enough that my fiance would always bring up the fish tacos whenever we were deciding on where to eat. I also have a shellfish allergy, which had never been a problem going to BFB's before.
We went this past Saturday night (Memorial Day weekend) and I had a strange feeling as soon as the obnoxious hags at the bar started screaming in their drunk self aggrandized rage, that we were in for it.
We got to our picnic table, which was the least of my worries at that point, only to find that the gloriously large menu had been whittled down to one single page.
I have a shellfish allergy. These new changes, were not ok. My choices were 1) side salad, and 2) baked potato. Where did the swordfish go?? What about the turkey tips?? OH, and they said that the grill and kitchen area are VERY SMALL, and when I ate there in the past, they were surprised that I could, because everything is cooked in the same grill space. WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS?! I've been coming here, bringing in visitors from out of town, and each time I tell you about my allergies you *appeared* to be diligent about it. Apparently this wasn't the case. UNACCEPTABLE! I can't believe I never had a reaction. Thank God.
This upsets me because my options for restaurants are very limited to begin with (shellfish, nut, soy, sesame, legume allergies aren't conducive to lots of variety, unfortunately) and I am heartbroken that things have been changed, and apparently never were legit to begin with. I feel like I've been cheated on! Sad face.
The icing on the cake was our waitress saying that "everything's a mess" when we were mentioning that the menu has been reduced down to very little, and it seemed like things had changed. A mess indeed.
I hope the owners can find some dedicated staff to help keep the place in order, and bring back some of the good stuff, at least for the people who go for the seafood. I however, won't eat there again only because of my allergies.
Very curious to see the episode of Gordon Ramsey's show - I am very upset that Gordon profits off of shenanigans like this. I thought he was supposed to HELP restaurants get better, not worse.
This little dive in Hull was fun...set in a great spot across from the beach. Â Service is OK (certainly better than the Parrot - HORRIBLE). Â They had this great menu with lots of choices (ok, more than they needed). Â Pasta. Â Steak. Â Seafood. Â Salads. Â Sandwhiches. REAL mashed potatoes. Â Yummy veggies. Â Amazing buffalo wings. Â
I hadn't been in ~ a month...stopped by, mouth salivating thinking about those steak tips and yummy mashed. Â Whoa! Â No longer the tiki-bar decor inside..ok, that's kinda nice! Â I step outside and do a double-take....am I am a rest area picnic ground on the interstate where pervs try to pick each other up or...? Â PICNIC tables? Â Really??? Â Half of the seating is gone (round tables that sat 2-6), replaced by cheezy picnic tables arranged in a militant line from the front to the back. Â Ok, it's a nice day...I can go with the flow. Â I CLIMB into the table (yes, one of the JOYS of picnic tables, for those of you that don't remember because hell...who would voluntarily sit in one when there are other options...like staying in your car in the rest area...but I digress).
I ask the hostess "what's the deal with the new decor?". Â She says Gordon somone-or-other (some "celebrity" chef) has decided to "help" BFB out. Â Um....he's a chef, right? Â How exactly does that qualify him to be an interior decorator? Â Anyway. Â She hands me the menu. Or shall I say she hands me one 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper with writing on just one side. Â The old BFB menu was, gosh, 8 pages? Â 9? Now? Maybe 10 entrees and 6 appetizers. Â Mashed potatoes....GONE. Â Buffalo wings...GONE (oh, wait...they had "chicken fingers" that could be served Buffalo style. Â Like you get at Wendy's. Â No thanks.). Â I say "oh, no! Â My wings! Â My mashed...gone!" and she says "Don't worry, we still have a lot of the stuff from the old menu - just ask your server.". Â Ok, so maybe all is not lost and I will get my app, my tips and my mashed after all. Server comes over, after I've looked the menu over and I ask about the mashed. Â In a sarcastic voice she replies "If it isn't on the menu, we don't HAVE it.", as if I am some simpleton for asking such an outrageous question. Â Ok then. Â
I should have gotten up and left.  But no.  I wanted the damn tips.  So I order them. Bloody, rare, mooing...cow with a chain saw.  No, seriously - I say those exact 8 words.  I worked in the F&B biz a long time, and I know you can always cook a steak more, but once it's overcooked, it's going in the trash.  I wait.  My ice tea arrives.  No sweetener to be found, no waitress to request it from.  I "suck it up" and drink it as is.  I wait...I wait some more.  The place is "dead" - one other PICNIC table has folks seated at it and there are people at the bar, drinking.  The food arrives with the MIA waitress and by now my *ss is sore from shifting on the plank of wood that serves as a seat in this PICNIC table.  Now you've got to understand...I have a, uhum, generous posterior.  Plenty of cushion, so I shouldn't be uncomfortable sitting on a plank of woo-- I mean PICNIC table.  But I am (which is - duh!- why nobody uses PICNIC tables!)  Hmmm... was this done purposely to make people eat and leave quickly? (This was  a "problem" with the old BFB...it was so nice out there that you'd snag a table, eat, and sit, drink, sit longer, drink more and leave 2 hours later).  Ok folks, I get that you want to turn the tables more quickly, but if it is so uncomfortable (and quite frankly, visually unappealing) then people won't sit there TO BEGIN WITH, that sort of defeats the whole purpose of redeocrating, now doesn't it?  Again, I digress.
I tell the server I'm uncomfortable and ask if it is OK to move inside. Â She agrees so I follow her in. Â Again, it's dead inside - I am the only one seated in the dining area. Â I look down at my plate and the baked potato has cheese, bacon and scallions all over it. Â I distinctly told her "butter and sour cream". Â I point this out and she says "they just come like this". Â Well goody for you, sweetie, but I am ALLERGIC to onions (yes, scallions=onions). And quite frankly, me and my generous posterior don't need extra calories of bacon and cheese, in addition to the butter and sour cream that I requested. Â She takes the potato with her (picks it up off my plate!!) so that I can eat the rest of my meal...I'm hoping she washed her hands well, but so hungry at this point that I don't care. Â Tips were FAR from bloody, raw, mooing, cow with a chain saw. Â Half were "medium" (I'm being generous), 2 were "rare" and the rest cooked through entirely with no pink (medium-well). Â I suck it up, yet again, and eat them. Â I am 3/4 way though my meal when - tuh-dah! - my baked potato arrives. Â With cheese on it. Â But no bacon. What the....? I give up, ask for the check and leave.
I probably went here 1X/week in the summer and about 1X/month in the winter (I live close by). Â Keep your picnic tables - I won't be back.. Bet they don't last a year.
On one of the first hot days of spring, I shamefully spent about 7 hours here lounging, eating, and drinking. Â We scored a great outdoor table, friends came and went, our waitress kept 'em comin', and I got a nice tan. Â
Their salads are huge, fresh, and tasty.
I tried their onion rings....crispy.
The only think that's missing is a raw bar!
The good:
The steak tips with veggie and horseradish sauce are great
The bad:
The drinks are weak, the service is slow, and even when it's dinner time the place is way too loud.
Looking for a place for you and 10 buddies to go drink your face off and get crazy, the BFB is for you. Want a good quiet meal with your girl/guy, skip it.
Have been here many times throughout the summers when I was younger, but haven't been since recently. We were down at Nantasket last month with a friend and stopped in. I got a sandwich wrap with sweet potato fries and my fried the pulled pork sandwich. The beau got the steamed mussels scampi style which he couldn't get enough of.
The wrap was average and my friend loved the pork sandwich. Then we were there last Thursday because beau was craving the mussels (unfortunately I have to lay low due to the Lil baby growing in me, cause I love mussels). Unfortunately, they were all out! He was disappointed but ordered a Neptune dish with pasta instead and I had the baked stuffed shrimp with balsamic asparagus and house salad(which was very impressive and had white zin dressing). We were happy and full and I had leftovers for lunch the next day. Good service noted at this visit.
Labor day and no plans led us down to Nantaket with another couple. We got seated in 15 and it was packed. YAY! Our waitress apparently was not on point and had a bit of an attitude so that sucked. Soda was flat : ( No drinkies for this preggo. I had a bruger with cheddar cheese , the regular stuff and avocado and had the house salad as a side instead of fries...my burger was a little more well done than I like though. Beau got his mussels x 2! He was happy : ) The other couple had fish n chips and the fried seafood platter. They said the fish was oily (?eewww gross...we recommended Andy's in Whitman : ) ) and the tarter sauce was blah. Needles to say the waitress did not get tipped well.
We will return for mussels and apps which looked huge and delish.
This place is cheesy. It's like a backyard party full of embarrassing uncles where you have to pay for your food and drink. Personally, I've always been fond of my embarrassing uncles, so I get a kick out of this place. It's weird in the daytime, but after dark it's actually a pretty enjoyable place by the beach to get fed and hang out.
Last month, probably against my better judgement, I ordered fried clams here, and they were surprisingly good! In fact, all the food at our table was pretty good. Definitely a little on the overpriced side, but it's a tourist bar at a beach, so it's kind of dumb to even act surprised about that.
This is absolutely not a classy restaurant, and is maybe not quite a dive, but it is enough of a shitshow with good enough snacks that i like it more than a little.
My husband and I stopped by Barefoot Bob's on Friday evening to recharge after strolling Nantasket beach. We couldn't remember if we had heard good things or bad things about this spot, so we kept an open mind to decipher into which category it would fall. Unfortunately, we found that it was the latter.
I'd like to give a higher rating on this place- there was plenty of outdoor seating, the waitress was super nice, although she didn't know much about the menu, and they were willing to remake our french fries when they were initially served stale-tasting- but every satisfaction seemed to have a disappointment to it as well.
The stuffed quahogs were huge, but overloaded with bread. I've definitely had better. The draught beer menu is short (3 options, one of which was shandy- ew) and they were out of several of the better bottled beers. I also noted that there were only two items on the menu that included lobster- I was having a serious craving for it- and neither seemed to be fresh and still in the shell. How unfortunate for a beach-side restaurant.
To BB's credit, the muscles with white wine & garlic sauce was delicious- probably the only thing that I can report without complaint. If we ever choose to return to this restaurant, it will probably be just for the muscles, though there are probably better places to fulfill this craving.
Caveat: Â middle of the day, off-season, some people at the bar, and three tables taken.
Summary: Â would probably not come back if we were in the area, there are some other places to check out.
1. Â We walked in and were told to sit wherever we wanted. Â One table had someone's homework on it, another was dirty. Â We ended up sitting at a 6-top because it was clean, I don't care if anyone liked it or not.
2. Â Service was perfectly nice but slooooooooow. Â We were there for 1 1/2 hours for no good reason.
3. Â Prices were a little steep for the dive bar type setting, honestly. Â Husband got seafood pasta alfredo, which he liked. Â I got a cajun shrimp po boy, or what was supposed to be. Â It ended up being fried shrimp, with the tails still on, on a hard slab of toasted baguette, with tartar sauce on the side. Â This was not possible as a sandwich, so I ate the shrimp and dipped the bread in my husband's pasta when he was done. Â Made the best of it!
We sure do like Barefoot Bob's! Went there last Sunday for a late lunch and chowed down on some delicious clams casino. Delish! I had the Santa Fe chicken wrap and it was huge (also delish). The waitress let me add a salad instead of the fries and the salad was gorgeous, fresh and dreamy. Me and the hubs both ate meals and an app and go outta there for $32 bucks!
We will definitely go back...we are looking to relocate in Hull, so this is a nice find!
I can't believe that so few folks have rated this place- it's the closest approximation to being on vacation in Key West around! As if the south shore weren't amazing, Bob's alone could keep me living in Hingham for the rest of my life. Very parrot-head and beachy with outdoor seating in the warmer months, this place is the destination for cold Coronas and appetizers. Friends can't live without the Quahogs, but I'm particularly partial to their BBQ Pork sandwich. It's absolutely massive and to-die-for. Â Regulars are eclectic and entertaining and run the gamut with a smattering of good-natured bikers and Hull locals mixed in with college kids hanging out on Nantasket.
Watch the sunset, sip a mai tai (they make a darned good one) and order the nachos. If you don't already live in Hull, you'll be looking to relocate immediately.
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