Up the Creek Tavern

Awesome after the renovation. The bar was built higher than the original. Everything is new. The food is great. Burgers are the best in the area. Great happy hour specials. Beers on tap are fresh. Bathrooms are clean and nice. There is a deck on the back of the bar for drinks and/​or food.

Just had lunch at Up the Creek. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised. They’ve done a great job remodeling since Sandy (now you can tell how long it’s been). Had the lunch special (Pastrami Reuben and Tuna pasta), which was really good. It’s your local neighborhood bar, with locals, but overall it was really good. Outside bar over the bay, which allows you to take in the salt air and enjoy the boats coming in off the bay. Good times.

The food was pretty good for «bar» food. Good portions and really fresh. A bit off the beaten path, but great happy hour prices.

The food is ok and the beer prices are good. The only thing is that it’s too loud!!! I’ve heard so many complaints about that as well. Maybe if they toned it down a bit, we would go there more often. It’s loud at 6:00 pm (dinner hour)!

Good local tavern. Food selection and presentation is good and varies from seafood, sandwiches and burgers. Has drink specials and $ 2 domestic pints daily. Restaurant is located at the Keyport Marine Basin. It has an outdoor deck and bar overlooking the marina. Seating inside also has a view of boats and waterways. Bar attracts locals and boaters. Dress is casual. If a local tavern and good food is on your menu, you’ve found it here. If local patrons and some fisherman at the bar bother you then you either need to move on or get over it. Sorry for putting it so plainly but read a few 1 star reviews and this seems to be their only complaint. Enjoy!

Food is amazing can tell it is all made here. Bartender is awesome, definitely will be back again

Horrible service. Took them an hour to tell me that the item I ordered wasn’t available. Music was way too loud I felt like I was at a nightclub and wait staff wasn’t very friendly or efficient. Wouldn’t come back or recommend to a friend.

Local dive bar, great looking rebuild, but not my cup of tea. Too many locals here for me.

Not bad. Newly renovated after Sandy so the place looks great. We stopped in looking to satisfy our seafood craving. Given the location and with a fishery down the menu is poorly lacking in seafood options. Sadly what they do have on the menu was not very satisfying. The seafood platter consisted of fired shrimp, scallops and flounder. All of which lacked seasoning for flavor and the founder seemed to come from a box that was in the freezer. In the end this is nothing but a good bar to grab some drinks and enjoy the area on the outside patio.

Super Storm Sandy blew it away, just the sign stands as of March 2013. RIP) —;

I’m only the second reviewer but I can tell you what the other can’t: Don’t go into a dive bar expecting anything else. I came here with a group of people after another died out and excitement (and BAC’s) were running high. I have a soft spot for the dives though, this particular one is right across from a marina and is clearly a house remodeled into a bar. What gave it away? Maybe the wood paneling basement/​bar and the sliding glass doors that led to the patio. The kind of tackiness I can appreciate from a place such as this.
In any case, you can get a beer and shot (don’t expect top shelf– they don’t have it) for $ 7. A small fight happened in the parking lot but every patron there quickly broke it up and everyone shook hands while a patron put «Kung Fu Fighting» on the jukebox and everyone had a laugh. It’s very friendly and most people are clearly a regular.
Sometimes these are little treats out. Although. I’d probably avoid it during summer fishing season after everyone disembarks the boats. A dive bar restroom can only go so far freshening a fisherman up.

A local bar that looks kind of scary on the outside and confirmed on the inside. I was hesitant to try this place from the looks of it. Inside the place was full of locals who stopped in for a cold brew. We stayed inside for 3 mins (smelled) and went outside to their outdoor bar. Ordered some peel/​eat shrimp (bigger than other places and pretty good). Had the fried flounder, scallop, shrimp platter… decent. Anything fried is good. Prices are cheap, food is average and the atmosphere is scary. Not a place I would ever return to…