Easily my favorite spot in Carolina Beach. The cooler is pretty neat (although I noticed some people weren't fans). Lots of beer selection and the place has a total beach hut vibe. Furniture is eclectic, there are board games for patrons and a funky patio where you can sit inside a land-wrecked ship to enjoy your beverages with the friends.
Review Source:I give it an extra star for the ambience, but this place sucks. Â You have to go into this walk-in cooler to get your beer, and all the traffic makes all the beers luke warm at best by the time you pay, which takes about 20 minutes of standing in line. Â You pay these 'bartenders,' who are obviously too lazy to get the customers a beer, and then they act like they deserve a tip for all there hard work. Â Next time, go to a beer cave at a gas station, at least the beers are cold.
Review Source:I love me some fat pelican. Â This is one of my favorite stops in Carolina Beach. Â They have some of the most amazing beers in their walk in cooler. Â A little pricey, but a very good selection. Â The whole place is covered in yard sale items, and basically has the theme of one mans junk is another mans treasure. Â This is a must visit place if you are in Carolina Beach. Â Check it out, and relax in the sandy pit out back.
Review Source:Visited twice with my family during our week - long stay in Carolina Beach. Â I've never seen such a place! The atmosphere is incredible - the decor was great, if I had to give it a name I'd say "redneck chic." It really works though, whoever is responsible for design, bravo! Indoor and out! Â
More importantly though, the beer available is outstanding! They had beer from all over the country, as well as different imports, and there was so much to choose from it was overwhelming. It was really great to have the pleasure of looking through the beer cooler to pick something. Â I've never been to a bar where you serve yourself this way before the Fat Pelican, and I like! Â There isn't enough good things I can say about this place, it cannot be duplicated. I only wish it were closer!
One of the craziest, weirdest bars I've ever been to. Great beer selection, which is nice. But really, it's the decor and sheer oddity of the place that astounds. It's like Salvador Dali stole the contents of a garage sale and arranged it into some kind of bizarre display. Worth a visit for sure!
Review Source:This is a fun place very relaxing. The walk in cooler is a great idea. Bring a marker and write on something. Spent 45 min with our group just looking at stuff on the walls.
  On problem is you really have no way to know how much beer is. I brought a beer up the bartender he added it to my tab. I asked how much it was and he said "I don't know."
OH THE FAT PELICAN! Â Never before have I seen a lazier or more lovable bar. Â I really couldn't believe this till I saw it with my own eyes, but this is a SERVE YOURSELF BAR. Â No fighting to order at the bar. Â No stress of being ignored by a server. Â You want something to drink? Â GET IT YO' DAMN SELF!
This place has a walk in freezer and works off of the honor/yell what your getting to the bar system. Â It's brilliant! Â In all other respects this place is your token dive bar with all the tell-tale signs. Â Dim light, remarkably dated music, furniture that time forgot, the works.
I'm a huge fan. Â This place is a great watering hole and definite must-see for any trip to Carolina Beach.
This place is a great little dive bar, previously living in NYC i have been to my fair share of bars and I must say this place is right up there with anyone of them. Â You walk into the cooler and select your own bottled beer, of which they have a pretty solid selection.(Any bar that has Arrogant Bastard is a favorite of mine) Â They have a great outdoor seating area with picnic tables and sand. Â Â The only reason i dont give this place 5 stars is it would be nice if they had the prices of the beer labeled so its not a surprise at the end of the evening.
Review Source:I like dive bars but I LOVE this one. I cannot explain this place other than fun fun fun. Regardless of your personal preference for beers/atmospheres etc, this place is a must. Had a blast with Suzy the bartender and the random crowd that blasted us with hellos as we walked in the door.
Review Source:This place rocks, first off you get to hit the cooler and pick your own beer from quite the selection, the even have spritzers for the ladies. LOLOL
The decor will crack you up, I do not think there is any wasted wall space at all. I came here on a cold winter night and the wood stove was rocking, although I didn't get to meet the resident Labrador I heard about.
Need more then this to visit the place? Well contre mon frere, but if you do then here it goes. Free buffet chili dogs late night, for real. I can't tell you how much this made my visit, I was a little seafood'd out that evening and this hit the spot.
GREAT DIVE BAR
After a long hot day at the beach, Fat Pelican's walk-in cooler is damn close to heaven. Â I was going to say it would be like walking over to your favorite liquor store beer cooler but it is an enclosed space, MUCH colder and has a MUCH bigger selection of beer.....just sitting there in 6 packs waiting for you. Â You grab a brew, show the bartender (honor system, screw price lists- which is a good thing tom j) and you relax and drink with a gang of friends. Â Outside or inside can be fun, it's a ramschackled cozy dive with character out the arse.
Review Source:I thought this place was really cool. Â I've never been to a bar like this. Â
The bartender told us they have 237 beers in their big  walk in refrigerator.
We made our selection and grabbed a seat next to a big black labrador retriever and started quizing each other from the box of trivial pursuit questions sitting on the log bar table.
I will keep this short because I am at work.
This place has a great beer selection. This place is pretty cool to hang out at, IF...
it were not so damn smokey!
This is a great place to look at people, IF,
it were not so damn smokey!
The beer on carry out is never the same price twice. I hate that. They don't have a clue on what they sell.
I give 2 stars for beer selection and people watching...it would have gotten more if it were not so smokey, and they could have a price list for the products they sell. 2.5 STARS would be more like it.
What an odd little bar. We had heard that this was the place to visit for a cold beer in CB. So, after dinner Saturday night we headed over there. Great concept...they have this huge walk-in fridge that has over 250 types of beer. You just go in, grab your beer and take it back out to the bartender to pay. She also has the regular Millers and Buds in a cooler behind the bar.
The building itself reminds me of a cave. It feels like it's built into a mountain or something. The ceilings are low and it's filled with all sorts of odd garage sale items and posters. everyone who has ever set foot in the place has written something somewhere...on the walls, ceiling, lamps, chairs. You name it, it's been written on. They don't have any normal seating, it's all used Grandma's house kind of stuff. Plaid couches and old barber chairs. I was very excited to actually have some place comfortable to sit while in a bar.
A few major downers. The bartender looked like she had been working there since 1973. She was wearing these tight white pants with the sides cut out and held together with a ring. Something a 19 year old would wear. We couldn't stop staring. Also, the smoke. I know this is a big complaint for me. But, it's true. I would have sat in that place all night long, reading National Geographics from 1994 and playing video games. But, I just can't deal with the smoke. There were only about 8 or 9 people in there, but it was like the smoke was filtering out of the walls. Man, it was bad. I'm not sure why every bar in this town has to smell like death.
Also, the beer wasn't super cold. It was cold enough, but not sitting in a bucket of ice cold. Kind of a turn off.
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