Yuuuuuuuuuck. Â Did I go to a different place than the other reviewers? Â A friend brought us here, he said we'd like it. Â When we left we asked him "Were you drunk when you came here? Â What part of it did you think we'd like?" Â Bad ambience (depressing concrete pool area, tightly packed tables of white resin), bad food (sh*tty microwaved frozen garbage), bad service (sweet young girls, pleasant, but rushing around like crazy, actually RUNNING at times ...it wasn't that busy). Â Never again.
Review Source:As a native of South Florida, I've considerable expertise with waterfront drinking. Pretty simple formula, most believe; take open water, add alcohol.
But nay good sir. There's more than a fine line separating whalers slowly tipping tall boys by the wharf, the bronzed and picturesque quaffing martinis on the rocky beaches of the French Riviera, gringos and locals alternating between napping and shooting mezcal in Tijuana and, well, how ever you'd describe the shit that goes down in South Beach.
That said, if you slam the atmospheric apple corer over the latter and shift the little nugget to the Cape, you've got yourself Trader Ed's. While the beautiful, sparkly-pocketed staff can afford to be curt and catty, they aren't. Quite the opposite, in fact, as Allie defined service with a smile - quick with a joke and (when the sun shifted) the pair of designer shades off her head.
Food's moderate and the mixed specialty drinks read straight from a seaside frat menu. Basic and powerful, the $7-8 price tag doesn't hit the wallet as quickly as the alcoholic suntan will turn you into one. Probably not my scene if under a roof, but because it ain't, I'd definitely swing by again.
This is a lunch review. Â It's our habit to find a cheap and fun place to eat on Fridays, and Trader Ed's was our pick this week. Â
Trader Ed's at Hyannis Harbor is a bit of a chameleon. Â First, it's somewhat hard to find being tucked in toward the back of the Hyannis Harbor parking lot. Â Secondly, it apparently changes with the time of day, from a chill harbor-side lunch spot to a happening night club as the sun goes down.
It was not busy during the lunch hour on this particular Friday. Â The menu is a decent selection of sandwiches and dinners, all very reasonably priced for this prime location. Â I had a barbecue chicken sandwich and my partner had a tuna melt, plus two sodas (and a ton of free refills) for a total of $30 (before tip). Â The service was frequent and friendly. Â
We didn't check out the bar, although it looked inviting and fun (I had to go back to work). Â
We'll be back.
My girlfriend and I were in Hyannis for an Anniversary and were looking for something OFF of Main Street. We did realize that it is still off season, in Cape Cod Rules, but we were hoping for some kind of life !
We notice this place on one of those cartoon maps we got in our hotel lobby. Now, it is a little tough and confusing to get to, but once you find it, you are going to want to rent property near by to stay as long as possible.
I have never felt so welcomed, especially at a somewhat local bar, in my entire life. The drinks are strong and cheap. They do have frozen Island Oasis drinks, but no real person orders those. You have a drink off of their drink menu. So I ordered the Tini Bikini for my girlfriend and I had their version of a Hurricane. BOTH DELICIOUS !!!!!
Next we just wanted a small snack because we had been shopping all day on Main street. Since they just opened this week, the menu was a bit limited. I asked Paul the bartender what he recommends, and his advice changed our thoughs on " pub food ". We got the Sweet Chili Wings. Now I will say that my girlfriend is an overly picky eater, and by that I mean that she would NEVER eat chicken on the bone. Well she burried half of this order. It made us re-think our reservations to the Roadhouse (and we should have, it's like Florida's population stopped off here for a $ 35.00 filet mignon before they went back to finish out their lives).
We went back that night after dinner and we were introduced to locals, people bought us drinks, I bought back. Atmosphere reminds me of what Cheers did in their TV show. The have a sign over the bar that best explains this place. Now don't quote me, but it is along the lines of: There are no Strangers Here, just Friends we haven't met yet ! No truer words were spoken.
I even joked with Paul and the owner, John after we were shown around the grounds that I may have to bring back 50 wings and a quart of that sauce. Well when we went back the next day, on our way back to Boston, just to say thanks again and to eat more wings for lunch, don't you know that they had a quart of sauce waiting for us to take home.
Now listen, the ENTIRE CAPE is over priced. I paid $ 10.00 for scrambled eggs and bacon on Saturday morning on Main Street. This bar is NOT over priced. Even if it was, I would go back to hang with Paul, Kristen, John and even Stephanie who was a little quiet at 12:00 on Sunday morning, understandably at first and then opened up once that bar was full, 20 mins after opening.
Trader Ed's Tiki Bar has made me a vacationer on the Cape now, where us North Shore Massachusetts people rarely roam.
This place was terrible and we actually didn't even eat there. We came from Connecticut to eat at Trader Ed's, (after seeing the restaurant had a pool, the kids were hooked), and they were sadly disappointed. You need a marina slip to swim in the pool, and we don't own a boat or have a marina slip. If we had eaten there, kids with parents who have marina slips would have been swimming in the pool on that scorcher of a day. My kids would have been sad. So we went across the water to a nicer restaurant with a beautiful view of the water. It is called " Dock Side". The food is excellent.
We drove to Trader Ed's for nothing; their website should say, " You need a marina slip to swim in the pool".
I would give Trader Ed's the fifth star if they just had a better beer selection.
This place is a delight. Tucked away in a marina, overlooking Hyannis harbor. It has its own pool. It's incredibly airy. You HAVE to sit at the bar to eat. It reminds me of a place at which they would have hung out in "Wings"... but more modern, obviously. No pleated pants.
Clientele ranges from wicked rich people who have their boats parked in the marina to your Cape Cod local.
You HAVE to try the steak tip sandwich. It'll rock your world.
Trader Ed's is not a bar, it's a big party that happens to have a bar. First off, it's hidden away in a marina, far from the tourists (except resourceful tourists like us). Secondly, there is a pool...no, not a pool table - an actually pool in the middle of the outside area!! We stopped by after the owner of the bar we were previously at told us this was the place to be...the aforementioned bar was a hotspot and we were chatting up the owner who was giving us suggestions for our friends who summer in the Cape. This is a super secret local's only place (thanks for not kicking us out) and I can't wait to check it out again next year!
Review Source:I randomly found this place using a GPS.
The food was typical bar food.
The drinks were typical frozen concoctions.
I was here between lunch and dinner, so the place was sort of dead, except for the solo creepy-girl swimming in the pool [with all her clothes on...].
For whatever reason or another I had sticker shock when the bill arrived and it somehow was almost $200 for 4 people, and we were only there for about an hour.
It's always comforting when your booze bill supersedes your food bill.
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