Chicken Box

If you are looking for a laid back fun time bar with friendly people, this is your place. This is also the place to come see live bands when they are performing on the island

Four stars for what it is… a fun, dirty, divey joint where the people watching is prime, the beers don’t stop comin’ and the music is loud.
Saw a great reggae band here (New Kingdom) last week. People were dancing, drinking, getting handsy, having fun, playing pool (the bar, very smartly, doesn’t allow darts after a certain point) and the best part: bar shuffleboard.
Folks either end up here at the end of the night or they drink all night long… either way, people are usually pretty drunked up at the Chicken Box. Know what you are getting into and you will have a BLAST.

The box needs to get a new ID system !!! They have ruined many nights by not letting of age friends into the bar, I wouldn’t recommend this bar to anyone taking a taxi or on a cold night

The box is the place to go to see some live music and enjoy a night out. Sometimes things get a little hairy, and people start to ping-​pong, but it’s all fun

This place is freaking so much fun! Good drinks and dancing. Can’t beat it!

Located on the interior of the island, this place is technically walk-​able from town, but we seemed to be the only people doing it. If I went back, I’d take a cab. A typical young, rowdy bar. Live music, cheap drinks and a patio where smoking is permitted.

Christmas Stroll weekend was fun… but Friday night at the Chicken Box made it fun! A great place to let your hair down and have some fun with some great music.

I am a bit biased as I used to work here… Though when I worked there the bathrooms were closed by the EPA, at least they should have… The outdoor deck didn’t exist…
Now, the place is very nice… New ownership has cleaned up the place…
Stopped in for a few beers and the prices weren’t outrageous… The bar tenders were very prompt… And the TVs to watch the games was nice…

Five stars. Sound guy Joel is great. Bar tenders are great and punctual; Especially if you’re in a band and need to get to the stage quick. If you’re screwed and your iPhone is dying at the bar you can ask the sound man for a charge. There are always cabs outside. Drinks are great lots of pool tables. Only downside is that it’s too fun and then the bar closes at one a.m. Great.

Place to go if:
1. You want to go on the dance floor, try to enjoy the band and get splashed by drinks getting thrown in all different directions around you
2. Bumped, pushed, shoved by everyone and anyone (without an excuse me)
3. Get hit on by the dirtiest men in Nantucket
4. See the drunkest people, by that time the slobs of Nantucket.
Nantucket is a lovely island, I’d suggest anywhere but here for a fun night out!

I stayed away from this bar with everything I had during the summers I spent there. The place was always packed with everybody and thing visiting Nantucket which I loathed.
Also, since I didn’t have a car, making the walk down Pleasant Street in the dark never sat well with me; parts of the way the sidewalk would break off and you are forced to walk on the road where few street lights are placed.
Come October and November (and friends with cars!), this place became much friendlier. I celebrated a Halloween here and had a blast dancing to some unpretentious cover band dressed as the Chilean miners and running into practically everyone I know. I got to celebrate each run-​in with shot after shot… of…hm, I don’t remember what, except it was fun!
To meet the man behind the Chicken Box, one has only to walk over to New Town Cemetery on the other side of the Stop & Shop, closer to Sea Grille. There, you’ll find a shiny granite tombstone with few words, but you’ll know it when you see it.

I mean this is standard if you are in Nantucket… its kind of dirty but charming in that way of island bar meets girls with gucci handbags, and its a mix of all people for sure… as much of a mix you can get out there… but I love it and have many many fond memories at this place… oh and they do take credit cards now…

This place is amazing – once you’re drunk. Local jerk dudes, preppy snobs from Connecticut, skanky island girls, a handful of NYC homos and a bad cover band tossed together like a Cobb salad with cheddar cheese instead of Roquefort and baked beans instead of garbanzos. And – doused with too much Thousand Island dressing. I’m most proud of the fact that we rang up a $ 500 bar tab and then got thrown out for our biggest and bravest hipster trading punches with a groomsman from a wedding on the island that night who insulted our crew.

Go here for cheap (er) drinks, dancing, and for feeling grungy. The Box is a world class dive bar with a salty aftertaste. It does take a certain level of commitment to leave the «Barmuda Triangle» of Straightwharf, the Gazebo, and the Tavern (some would throw Cap’n Tobey’s in the mix for good measure) on a busy night and head out of town, but it is always worth it. Always.

We love the box! Another Nantucket super island hot spot that promises lots of really drunk touchy guys and girls! The live entertainment is always excellent and getting the drinks are fast and they are strong. You can even enjoy a game of pool.

The box is the spot for live music on the Island.
Drinks were cheap and well sized compaired to most bars in town. People were hammered here…
Entertainment was Donovan Frankenreiter for the evening, pretty big deal as the show was sold out both nights!

There’s nothing I can say that will describe how much I love the box.
4 dollar bud lights, an outdoor area where you can take your beer and smoke a lung dart, and the crowd is always solid.
Just go, it’s awesome.

Ahh memories.
I don’t know if I’ve been here legally, but used to go as a little girl w/​my Dad on our bike rides around the island. He would have a beer and I would sip on a sprite or coke. I never really understood why he liked this place so much because it wasn’t that exciting for a 10 yr old, but between my brothers and my father, our family probably owns 20 BOX t-​shirts and hats, and countless stickers collected over a few decades. My father sticks them on every vehicle he owns. It was always a good conversation starter when I drove his old car in college;
«Uhh…why do you have a sticker that says BOX on it?» Usually I’d have some smart-​ass reply like, «‘cuz I have one.»
If you’re ever in Harbour Island Bahamas, and see a golf cart roll by with a BOX sticker, you better believe Captain Raven has left his mark. There’s probably about 20 on the island that’s 3 miles by ½ a mile…
I guess the 5 stars come down to family tradition, but everyone I know who knows of the Box, loves it. You simply can’t go to Nantucket without making a stop at the Box.
As my father says, «Any man that knows the Box, is alright with me.» (as he said with delight upon hearing I was dating a guy who has his own collection of box paraphernalia)

The Box!
The first bar I ever went into before I even drank! Can you imagine such a thing?
It’s also the bar that I had a tooth chipped, thanks Natalie!
The bar that I one day found they were having a local’s only party and gave free raw bar, yes, i still remember that day fondly.
The bar that I sat outside of in my cab night after night… Including a few winter nights where I learned the stank of a drunk.
And the bar that made me realize that exits in bars should be big, really, really big…
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here…

Douchebags and Cougars.
That was my experience at the Box. Cool place, sure. Decent drinks available at the bar but, the service is much better if you are an MTV type sporting cleavage. The music was ok (It was loud for sure). And the whole place turns into a three-​ring circus when closing time arrives.
My ears were still ringing as I watched a guy fighting with his Cougar friends about going/​not going home with a guy who wasn’t said Cougar’s husband/​significant other. That’s when it occured to me: I’m either too old or not drunk enough to appreciate this.