"Aplaya is a Filipino restaurant and tiki bar that’s a pretty elite Chatham outdoor hang for small bites and cocktails. The drinks are full of bright colors and flavors from ingredients like yuzu, pandan, and calamansi, upping the already tropical bases of mai tais and scorpion bowls. Crispy lumpia, sticky BBQ chicken skewers, and other Filipino dishes are the exact things you’ll want after a couple of frozen calamansi margaritas. The outdoor bar and garden is also one of the few places open late in town—they’re still mixing up drinks until midnight every day." - Carlo Mantuano