Dining in Hull, MA: A Real, Named Restaurant Guide

Jake's Seafood: The Anchor at 50 George Washington Boulevard

Jake's Seafood, at 50 George Washington Boulevard, is Hull's best-known dining name and the closest thing this town has to a destination restaurant — a combined seafood restaurant and fish market on Nantasket Beach's edge, with lobster rolls, fried clams, grilled swordfish, and chowder alongside water views. The restaurant's own site describes itself as serving Greater Boston and the wider South Shore, including Cohasset, Scituate, Marshfield, Hingham, and Weymouth, and was actively posting 2026-season hiring notices as of this research pass — a straightforward, current signal that it's open and operating.

The Hull Shore Drive Waterfront Cluster: The Parrot, Doctor's Island Brewing, and a Real 2025 Relocation Story

Hull Shore Drive, the short stretch fronting Nantasket Beach Reservation, carries three of the town's most distinctive waterfront names within easy walking distance of each other. The Parrot, at 1 Hull Shore Drive, pairs a nautical-themed interior with panoramic beach views and a menu running from New England baked haddock to a tuna poke bowl. Doctor's Island Brewing Co., at 19 Hull Shore Drive, is Hull's own named craft brewery and taproom — a real, currently operating local brewery rather than a generic "craft beer available" mention.

Boathouse Bistro, at 45 Hull Shore Drive, has a genuinely fresh, dated story behind it: per Boston Restaurant Talk's own coverage, Boathouse Bistro operated at The Launch at Hingham Shipyard from 2015 until relocating to the Nantasket Beach Resort in Hull, taking over the former Shoreline Kitchen & Bar space. The move was reported as targeted for early June 2025, with a July 2025 update confirming the Hull location was open (lunch-only at first), now expanded with a wood-burning pizza oven and space for functions and events. Another restaurant, Salty Days, took over Boathouse Bistro's vacated Hingham Shipyard spot — a clean, concrete example of exactly the kind of restaurant-roster turnover this page keeps flagging, and proof that Boathouse Bistro's Hull address is a recent arrival rather than a long-standing one.

Nantasket Avenue's Beach-Bar Row: Schooners, The Sandbar, Daddy's Beach Club, and California Underground

Nantasket Avenue itself carries Hull's densest run of casual, bar-forward restaurants. Schooners Restaurant, at 157 Nantasket Avenue, serves seafood and American comfort food. The Sandbar Restaurant and Bar, at 297 Nantasket Ave, runs a casual bar-and-trivia-night format. Daddy's Beach Club, at 280 Nantasket Ave, leans into a rock-and-roll beachfront-bar atmosphere with burgers, pizza, and wings. California Underground, at 257 Nantasket Ave, is a bar built around live music. All four turned up as currently active in this research pass, consistent with the chamber's own listing.

Local 02045: A ZIP-Code Name in a Former Restaurant's Space

Local 02045, at 2 A Street, takes its name directly from Hull's own ZIP code — a small, genuinely local branding touch. Per NBC Boston's own coverage of its opening, Local 02045 moved into a space in Hull formerly occupied by a restaurant called Art's, another small, dated data point confirming the space's history rather than treating it as always having been Local 02045. It serves craft cocktails and pub-style comfort food and was showing current reviews as of July 2026.

South Shore Taco Guy: A Food Truck's Real Address Has Changed Since the Chamber's Own List

South Shore Taco Guy is the clearest example this page found of a listing that needs a fresh correction rather than a simple copy-forward. The Hull Nantasket Chamber of Commerce's own dining guide still lists the business at 48a B Street — an older address tied to its pop-up-and-food-truck-era operation, which per the business's own site began as catering and pop-ups in 2015 and became a food truck in 2017. The business's own site and independent listings (Seamless, DoorDash) confirm it opened a genuine brick-and-mortar taqueria at 165 Nantasket Avenue, directly across from Nantasket Beach, in early 2024 — and it continues to run the food truck and catering side alongside the restaurant. A visitor searching for South Shore Taco Guy today should use 165 Nantasket Avenue, not the chamber page's older B Street address.

Coffee, Sweets, and a Confirmed Mediterranean Kitchen: Stir Coffee Co, Nantasket Sweets by Swedes, Scoops, and To Dine For

Stir Coffee Co, at 155 Nantasket Avenue, and Nantasket Sweets by Swedes, at 165 Nantasket Avenue, cover espresso and confections respectively, both on the same short stretch as South Shore Taco Guy's new storefront. Scoops Ice Cream Co., at 540 Nantasket Avenue, is Hull's named ice cream shop. To Dine For, at 520 Nantasket Avenue, is worth a specific cuisine note beyond the chamber's bare listing: independent listings (Yelp, a dedicated menu site) describe it specifically as a Mediterranean restaurant, with reviews current as of July 2026 — useful detail for a visitor expecting something more generic from the name alone.

MJ's and Shipwreck'd at the Nauti Dog: Two More Named, Address-Specific Spots

MJ's, listed at 99 Shore Drive on the chamber's own guide, turned up in a Hull community Facebook group as a food van/food truck operating on Nantasket Beach rather than a standalone building — worth knowing before expecting a sit-down room at that address. Shipwreck'd at the Nauti Dog, at 173 Main Street, is a harbor-view seafood-and-cocktails spot; an independent dining guide (HullNext) lists a same-address, shortened "Shipwrecked Restaurant" name at the identical 173 Main Street location, which reads as the same business rather than a separate one — but a visitor should confirm the current signage in person.

Fresh Finds Beyond the Chamber's Base List: Toast, Mezzo Mare, and Rinconcito Salvadoreño

A fresh search beyond the chamber's own dining guide turned up several more real, currently active Hull restaurants worth knowing about. Toast Nantasket Beach, at 121 Nantasket Avenue, is a popular breakfast-and-brunch spot known for challah French toast and lobster eggs Benedict, with independent write-ups noting long weekend wait times. Mezzo Mare, described across independent sources as Italian coastal cuisine built around seafood pasta, gives Hull a genuine Italian-leaning kitchen alongside its seafood-and-bar-heavy roster. Rinconcito Salvadoreño, at 536 Nantasket Avenue, is a genuinely different cuisine from the rest of this list — a Salvadoran restaurant serving pupusas, tamales, and homemade salsas, described in one independent write-up as a hidden gem.

A handful of additional named spots surfaced in the same pass without full independent verification of every detail: High Tide on Nantasket Flatts (a BBQ-and-sports-bar format on Nantasket Avenue), Jo's Nautical Bar on Main Street, Weinberg's Bakery and Bread Basket Bakery for baked goods, Dylan's Pizza and L Street Pizza for straightforward pizza-and-subs, Nantasket Seafood for fried seafood, The Saltwater Diner for breakfast, and Hull Jade for Chinese takeout. These come from a single secondary directory (HullNext) rather than the chamber's own page or a direct restaurant-site fetch, so treat them as a starting point for further checking rather than as fully cross-verified as the names above.

What This Roster Adds Up To — and the One Name That Doesn't Belong

Hull's real dining picture runs from a destination seafood house with its own fish market (Jake's Seafood) to a waterfront row that just absorbed a genuine 2025 relocation (Boathouse Bistro, formerly of Hingham Shipyard), a named local brewery (Doctor's Island Brewing Co.), a beach-bar strip (Schooners, The Sandbar, Daddy's Beach Club, California Underground), a ZIP-code-branded cocktail bar in a former restaurant's space (Local 02045), a taqueria whose real current address has outrun the chamber's own listing (South Shore Taco Guy), a confirmed Mediterranean kitchen (To Dine For), a Salvadoran restaurant (Rinconcito Salvadoreño), and the usual coffee, sweets, and ice cream stops that round out a beach-town roster. One name that shows up on the same chamber dining guide does not belong on a list of Hull businesses at all: Vitamin Sea Brewing appears on the Hull Nantasket Chamber of Commerce's own dining page, but its actual, confirmed physical address is 30 Moore Road in Weymouth, Massachusetts — a different town, roughly five miles away — and multiple independent sources (its own opening coverage, Yelp, Untappd, which lists it as "East Weymouth") consistently place it there, not in Hull. Its appearance on Hull's chamber list most likely reflects regional chamber membership rather than a Hull street address, and this page deliberately excludes it as a Hull restaurant.

Restaurant rosters in a small beach town turn over on a real timeline — this page alone surfaced one address correction (South Shore Taco Guy), one dated relocation (Boathouse Bistro), and one out-of-town exclusion (Vitamin Sea Brewing) in a single research pass. Confirm current hours, menus, and operating status directly with the restaurant, a live map, or a reservation platform before building a visit around any name here.