What you’re getting: Halibut and chips
Though the primary reason to visit Tides Tavern is the seafood, that its owner through the ‘60s and ‘70s was a Jerry Garcia look-alike named “Three Fingered Jack” is up there. It opened as a general store in 1910, but party times began with the end of Prohibition. The current iteration — seafood on the deck, live music, and great burgers for that weird friend who hates seafood — dates from current owner Peter Stanley’s reconstruction project in 1973.