Awards & Articles
Award-Winning Cape Cod Fried Seafood and Family Fun Adventure Golf

Cape
Cod Life Annual Guide 2010
“Then of course you’ve
got your loyal customers that come in year after year, month after
month, week after week, and sometimes day after day.” read
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Boston Magazine: “Best Seafood Shack”
“If you’re looking for a harborside hole in the wall,
this isn’t
it. There’s an ever-present line out the door, an ice cream
stand out back, and (clam shack purists, cover your ears) a mini
golf course. But Arnold’s has lasted 30 years for good reason,
namely the perfectly fried clams, giant lobster rolls, and craveable
crisp onio rings. (And we mean craveable: Arnold’s
serves 2,000 pounds of rings each week.) Go before you’re
actually hungry, wait out the line, and be rewarded with heaping
baskets of summery deliciousness.”
Arnold’s gone green
“These days it seems that there are a number of businesses out there crowing about ‘going green.’ It
is impossible to view...” read more
Giving back to the community
“At Arnold’s we are quick to draw the distinction between being
a self-service restaurant and being a self-serving restaurant...” read more
Cape Cod Life Magazine
“Best Informal Seafood,” “Best Clam Shack,” Restaurant Runner-up: “Best
Outdoor Dining”
Boston Globe Calendar - Susan Wilson
“Casual meals at affordable prices. Our favorite roadside stop. Melt-in-your-mouth fried clams and mountainous, fluffy onion rings. Nickerson’s version was geared toward a Cape Cod theme: a lobster and clam shack with roller skating car-hops, a malt-shop menu and a 50s theme. Arnold’s
fast became known as a quality seafood shack with affordable prices
and good old fashioned fun.”
Concierge Guide to Cape Cod & The Islands
“Outer Cape’s Best Clams, Onion Rings and Outdoor Dining Award goes to Arnold’s
Restaurant.”
Yankee Magazine
“There’s only one thing to do when you want some fried onion rings - strike out for Arnold’s! After an order of clam strips, a lobster roll, and some of Arnold’s
ideal onion rings, we were sated.”
Evening Magazine - Barry Nolan - Channel 4 Boston
“Arnold’s is a great place to enjoy the fruits of the sea.”
Insiders Guide To Cape Cod
“Best fried clams on Cape Cod”
New York Magazine - Michael Robbins
“We ordered the shore dinners what else? That comes with enough tender, salty steamers to fill you up, plus fresh corn and a lobster that was just terrific. With bibs, beer, nutcrackers, lemon wedges, and lots of paper towels, it was messy, fun and completely satisfying.”
Food & Wine Magazine
“Arnold’s Lobster & Clam Bar has it all, from the best fried clams in the world (swear hard-core aficionados) to lobster rolls stuffed with incredibly succulent meat. The perfectly fried onion rings make a great accompaniment.”
Boston Magazine
“Best Fried Clams” and “Best Casual Dining”
Bangor Daily News
“You’re sure to fall in love with old Cape Cod if Arnold’s Restaurant in Eastham, Mass., is on the itinerary. Another in-the-rough restaurant, Arnold’s is clean, has indoor and outdoor seating and serves some of the world’s best onion rings and sweet corn to go with lobster. The raw bar, operated by a local shell-fisherman, provides great appetizers.”
Coastal Living
“One of our favorite seafood dives. Great fried seafood, (especially
the clams), legendary onion rings (Arnold’s sells two tons a week), and
enormous portions.”
United Airlines Hemisphere
“Arguably the best seafood shack this side of the Cape Cod Canal. Set on a corner lot on the Cape’s thoroughfare, Route 6, Arnold’s is hard to miss. Undaunted by the long line (usually out the door), I wait my turn and order from the vast selection of seafood including lobster, fried clams, scallops, and shrimp - add a mound of onion rings, and grab a seat at one of the picnic tables. My number is called fairly quickly and I giddily dive into plates overloaded with fresh fare.”
Everyday with Rachael Ray
# 1 secret spot on Cape Cod for the best lobster roll
Washington Post Article
“The most ubiquitous sign on the Cape seems
to be ‘Best Fried Seafood.’ Only a handful of the seafood
shacks manage live up to it.... Arnold’s boasts a raw bar with superlative
local clams. If you overindulge there’s a miniature golf course next
door that might burn off a calorie or two.”
USA Today Article
“By day, it’s a boisterous, kid-friendly spot that doles out lobster rolls
and fried seafood to families straight from (or headed to) the beach;
by night, it’s a laid-back watering hole/raw bar where jovial owner
Nick Nickerson mans the ‘shucking shack.’ ... Everything on the vast
menu of seafood classics is done to Nick’s uncompromising standards,
and the thin onion rings are almost worth a trip by themselves.”
