Beachcomber

This was my bar. I was a patron there for years, and I also worked there for 4 years. Hell, my Unilocal profile pic was taken there! I moved to Louisiana Labor Day weekend, and I can’t believe that when I come home to visit, that my bar that I used to meet up with all the friends that I met through those doors, will not be there. It may have been «just a bar» to some, but to me and to a lot of locals, it was ours. It is and will continue to be missed.

A great old dive bar and music venue — especially for Irish acts, in recent decades — that’s been on the Quincy waterfront all of my life. Sadly, it closed a couple of days ago, and is about to be bulldozed for a toney restaurant totally out of place in this blue collar town. It’ll be missed.

DOG FRIENDLY PATIO! Decent beer selection and much cheaper than all the rest on Quincy Shore Drive.

Divey bar right next Wollaston beach. Cheap beer is about $ 3 for a pint. Paid a $ 5 cover but this was a special event fundraiser thing so I’m not sure if that’s a normal price. Also came on a Saturday night, but they have patio seating that I could see being nice to grab a beer on after a day at the beach.
3 stars for cheap beer but having a cover.

This place is a dump. Drinks are weak and priced like any other bar. The people here aren’t the classiest folks either. Went here once and will never go again… Thanks but no thanks.

As fans of Irish music, we were looking forward to seeing the Wolftones on June 27.
We were assured that the band would be starting at 9pm «sharp» We left at 10, not hearing the band. We did demand and received a full refund. The strategy was to encourage drinking. This was unacceptable especially on a weekday.
Wait staff was very pleasant and responsive but clearly this was out of their hands.
As anyone who has been there, we know the Beachcomber to be very tired but the rutted, puddled dirt parking lot should be a priority upgrade.

Such a DIVE bar! But I love it here on Sunday night when there is a Monday holiday, everybody comes out of thse woodworks & is like a big reunion.
It is usually 80’s night on Sunday. The AC in this place DOES NOT work, so you are schweaty if you decide to dance at all, The drinks are are strong, & there is an outdoor patio if you want to gert some air.
You are directly across from Wollaston Beach which I don’t know if it is a plus or not.

Not a bad draft beer selection, and during the day when it’s not busy, they’ll let you bring your leashed dog on the patio. Most nights there’s a cover charge, but usually not Sunday.
Several other reviews complain that this is a dive. Of COURSE it’s a dive! A wonderful, wonderful dive! Not every bar needs to be RISE.

The Beachcomber is a wicked pissah dive bar. It is an okay place to go see a cover band, particularly in the summer. The do bring in some really decent cover bands! They have a patio with tables which pretty much doubles the size of the place in the warmer months. The bathrooms are really small and not particularly pleasant, but it’s a dive bar! They always made a pretty strong drink, so if that’s your thing, you will be happy at the Comber! Sunday nights, they have an 80’s music night. They have pizza, and while it’s not particularly good, it’s pizza! You know the old saying, even bad pizza is still pizza! The pizzas are CHEAP…$ 3 a pie. You really can’t beat that, even if it’s only just okay.

If I could give 0 stars I would.
Went to Beachcomber to see my boyfriend’s band play after 6 weeks of him being away on tour. Came in with the band in the back tour and waited an excrutiating 3 hours while they kept adding bands in until our guys went on. To make the wait a bit better, a couple of us went to CVS just to waste some time. Come back and the guy at the door decides he wants to be an ass. I’m 27. I do not look 21. I have not been 21 for a while, but this guy is looking at my id with a magnifier and decides I have a fake. A few «Don’t tell me how to do my job» and «I’ve been doing this since you’ve been before you were born» lame lines later I decided just to bail. Did I mention, this was an ALL AGES show.
You couldn’t pay me to go back there again. To the bouncer-​should you really be proud you’ve been sitting at the door of a run down bar for 27 years? There’s nothing worse than a bouncer with a God complex. Steer clear.

I got cut off after one drink on my birthday because I drank my first whiskey and diet too fast. Seriously?
I came back to the bar about 15 minutes after ordering my first drink, and some guys offered to buy me birthday shots. Awesome. Then the bartender basically told me to go fuck off.
I just had my friend go up to the bar and buy me drinks.
Two stars only for stellar karaōke.

This is the perfect place to go if you want to hang out with people I went to highschool with. If you are from Quincy, you either are or know somebody who has been kicked out of the Beachcomber. Behave!
Cash only. Sketchy ATM situation so, seriously, just bring cash okay? Dark and depressing inside unless you are with a group of people who are not depressing, Get the drift? It’s a dive, so it is fun if you are fun, and it is not fun if you are a downer. Live music occasionally, the kinds of bands you go see if you know somebody in the band. Karaōke sometimes, not so great unless you have lately found yourself wishing that the only songs you ever heard were Carrie Underwood songs and that «Black Horse in a Cherry Tree» mess.
Extra points in the summer. It is «on the beach», meaning, it is «across the street from a beach», so you can drink and smoke outside with a great view of the cars zipping down Quincy Shore Drive and trying to run over my brother.

Cash only joint. ATM? Inside the bar where the bartender does the transaction for you.
They have a full bar with some taps. The patio is welcoming as it is summer. Don’t expect this to be chic. This place is due for updating. Patio furniture is plastic like something from the Christmas Tree Shop. The patio is self service on a quiet evening.

Well-​located but does not take advantage of it. The patio is kinda low brow, but the drink prices aren’t. Inside, never been very welcoming, darkno friendly vibe, regulars giving you the eyeball, and we have tried it a few times. They just do not have it going on here.

Great spot, great crowd, the front deck is open for summer, what else do you need to know?
It’s not a dive, it’s not a dump, it’s a good neighborhood joint to crush brews and listen to a band if there’s one playing.

Usually I like a dive bar better than some stuck up bar, but The Beachcomber is a DUMP. It is 50 years old, and looks like it hasn’t been updated in 45 years. The floors aren’t level, the tables aren’t level, and the bathrooms are just plane nasty. I’d rather walk across the street and pee in the Atlantic Ocean. Don’t shake anyones hand, there is NO SOAP IN THE BATHROOM!!! Not only is there no soap, you can only use cold water.
Not only is the Beachcomber dirty and a little on the smelly side, but they don’t have an ATM machine and they don’t take credit cards. However! They will take your debit card and let you get cash back for a 5% fee. What kind of crap is that? Why can’t they just take your card and run a tab like a normal place, or have an ATM with a $ 2.00 fee like a normal place. If I ever go back there I’ll hit the ATM before.
The only reasons it doesn’t get one star is because the sound system is good for the bands, and the wait staff is nice and fast. If you know a good band is going to be there, it’s worth putting up with the bar. I’d bring some Purel next time, and hit the ATM before I step in there.

Any place that primarily reaches their desired clientel using the Irish newspapers and weekend Irish radio shows to advertise??? you kind of know what you’re dealing with. They have a ton of Irish, Irish-​American bands, and the location is dingy at best. However, it adds to the charm of the place. It’s the beachcomber, but it doesn’t utilize the beach at all. I enjoy this place for music and drinks; it’s an acquired taste.

Fail.
This place was wicked lame. I went with some friends to see a Journey cover band but ended up leaving before they went on because this place sucked so hard.
My Gin and Tonic tasted like toilet water and was over priced. the draft beer was overpriced. and it was way too crowded to move. oh and full of middle-​aged people who dance like it’s 1978.
i can’t believe i paid 5 dollars to get in here.

The website boasts that Rosemary Clooney, Count Basie, Jay Leno, Shanana, Louis Armstrong have all been on the stage at The Beachcomber. On the photos page, apparently The Dropkick Murphys [from Quincy] played a pretty crowded show there four years ago. I went last night to see It’s From the Sky and Sir Q, The Imposter play and it was decidedly NOT crowded in there.
It is definitely a dive bar as other reviewers have stated, but it is also a very TOWNIE bar with some old heads watching hockey on TV and some twenty-​somethings in their Wet Seal gear barking about effing dudes. Seriously. I overheard a conversation in the bathroom that was something like this:
A: «Did you let him fuck you?»
B: «Um…yeah!»
For some reason, every time I went into the bathroom, there’d be a different girl chatting with me about my hair, boys, clothing, etc. It could be I’m used to the cold, heartless world of Boston/​Cambridge or it could be because the bathroom is the size of a matchbook, but the townies there are damn friendly.
I’d imagine this place is much, much different in the summer. What sucks is that there’s a patio on the front that looks out into the ocean, but you have to look across the busy street traffic, parking lot, and partition to see said ocean. We couldn’t get over the novelty of being able to bring your drink outside when you smoked. No chance of roofies! Aces!
There’s so much going on with this places. The drink special was bananas. Rum drinks for $ 2! But it wasn’t just any old rum. It was proprietary Beachcomber rum! The ATM is behind the bar and it charges you $ 1 for every $ 20 you take out! They have a arcade game called Bags where you virtually throw bean bags [???]! The sign outside the place states, «The Doctor is in!» It’s right next to The Clam Box! There’s a framed picture of Bill Cosby on the wall! The whole place looks like it’s sinking towards the ocean [very band for drunk times]!
And let’s not forget the signs for cover bands coming to the Beachcomber: Backseat Lover [Pearl Jam tribute] and Age Against the Machine [der] — which I totally hope is old timers covering Rage songs polka-​style. Come widdit now! Plus, there’s a band there this Saturday called Son of a Bitch! They don’t fuck around!

I really like the Beachcomber.
Yes, it’s a dive. It’s a divey, dive even. But it’s a dive with an ocean view, outdoor seating, and sometimes great bands on the weekends.
And it’s really a godo place to see a show. No matter where you are you’re almost right on top of the bar.
Okay, so sometimes there’s this creepy guy who hands out copper braces to all the ladies he thinks are pretty, but then, yay, creepy guy thinks I’m pretty (and all my friends, and I think some guy in the corner).
Want to get away from the music? No problem, you can hang out on the patio.
Maybe it’s that this place reminds me of some of the «old school» places on the strip in Fort Lauderdale, but I think the Beachcomber deserves all four of the stars I’m giving it.