Justin T.
Yelp
Had a good time here, although I'd say the cheese and meat platters were outrageously expensive considering how mediocre they were. The cheese was plain, the crackers nothing special, and the bread dried out, and it seemed like it was more for show than for eating.
Some of the wines were okay, and a few were putrid. The atmosphere was lively, but extremely loud, and pure cacophony. The waitress was kind and polite, but screamed so loud into our ears we thought our brains would ooze onto our cheese plate.
A local gnomish-looking drunk came by, interrupted our conversation, bragged about his 34 years on the island, sat down at our table uninvited, leaving my partner's father no place to sit, whilst he puffed out his chest and expounded on the virtues of the "captain's club" of which he was a select member. Being a member of the "captain's club" we were informed, entitles one to larger "glasses" of wine than us mere plebeians, glasses that constitute about half a bottle each given the swagger and stagger on display. After gregariously telling us not to move to the island so we don't spoil his edenic drinking and perambulatory experiences, he moved on to hold court with the higher classes when another gnomish local drunk petitioned his attention.
I understand that being insulted by a privileged islander in an expansive mood who is three sheets to the wind is something of a high honor on hip spits of land in the Pungent Sound, and so I can only tip my hat and bow to the captain and his club, and pray that His Lordship will forgive any imposition we may have caused by spending almost $100 into his favorite watering hole and his local economy in one sitting. While I would generously call the stop at this port of call educational, I would not return here--at least not if I'm buying.