Evelyn’s Drive In

Looking for fish and chips? Look no further! You will get your fill and then some! Delicious and glutinous. Its greasy, but isnt that what you want when you are getting fish and chips? Exactly what I was looking for. The place was PACKED when we went in the summer but it didn’t take too long. The chowdah was plentiful. The portions were huge. We couldn’t finish! If you want a pop (soda) expect a can not fountain drink. Make sure to ask for lots of tartar sauce! Evelyn’s is right on the water so you can sit and enjoy the view or take it to go!

We ordered fried clams and sat on the picnic tables. It was a bit of a wait, but the place was awesome, food was great and we had plenty to take home.

I love Evelyn’s! If you are searching for an authentic Rhode Island clam shack, this is your place. The friend whole belly clams are the best Iran in the menus and I can help but order them almost every time I visit. I also usually get the fried scallops and they have never disappointed. This spot is right in the water with a beautiful view and cold beer on tap!!!

I felt like I was at a Little League baseball concession stand. Ordered the chorizo sandwich (marketed on menu as a family famous recipe) and it was disgusting. It’s basically a big chunk of pepperoni Cut into tiny squares with some tomato sauce and then they put it in a bun. Then they charge an arm and a leg for it. Everything else on the menu seem to be fried seafood… If you like fried greasy food this is your place

Great place for a casual lunch with your special someone! The view is excellent, perfect for a summer afternoon.

Went there because we were going to an outdoor concert and needed some food
Got some lobster rolls as that seemed like a good idea to prevent fried food from getting greasy while we drove from Evelyn’s to Little Compton
Lobster rolls were basically stale hot dog rolls with boiled lobster and a tiny cup of mayo on the side with crappy fries. $ 20 per roll. No napkins and no utensils provided.
You must be joking. Lobster was tough and full of shredded pieces versus decent meat
This place rates amongst the biggest rip offs I have ever seen. There are so many better places in and around the area that know how to make a proper lobster roll. If you choose not to mix the mayonnaise before, have the decency to tell your customers and include what they need to do so when they get a to go order.

The batter is amazing! Very light, but just enough. We got the seafood platter. If I had to do it again I would just get the fish platter. The clam cakes needed more clam, so you are not missing anything if you don’t taste them. The shrimp, scallops and calamari were all good. Get the fish platter, you won’t be disappointed! If you are feeling rich, get the seafood platter. It is enough for 2 – 3 people, but you will only get a couple of bites of fish (which is the best part).

Loved the view. Service was excellent. Chowder not a lot of flavor. Scallop roll and clam cakes were great

Had a great experience here. Came on a Sunday afternoon and sat outside on the restaurant patio. nice drinks. fairly pricy but you are paying for a top notch view! food is classic and amazing. always look for the specials. make sure to order the large lobster roll (3 oz in small, 5.5 oz in large). Justin was my waiter and he was nice.

My family wanted to try this place on the way back from Newport so I came along — we figured a quick stop at a clam shack wouldn’t seriously impact our travel time, and would give us one last good seafood experience as we wrapped up our vacation.
Fail.
Firstly, we ordered at the take-​out counter and the wait was still a good 15 – 20 mins for our food. And the place wasn’t that busy on this particular Monday evening.
Secondly, not feeling like fried food myself, I ordered a lobster roll. I wasn’t told that there was more than one size, so I assumed that the roughly $ 20 order they rang me up for was the standard size. What I received was a joke: a few pieces of lobster that looked lost in the tiny hot dog bun they were sitting in. All it came with (apart from mayo and butter) was a similarly miniscule portion of fries. I found out after the fact that there was a larger-​sized lobster roll for around $ 25. WTF — the girl who took my order should have told me there was more than one size instead of automatically ringing me up for the biggest rip-​off! Needless to say, I left hungry, even after picking at my family’s fries and onion rings.
By the way, the onion rings were around $ 5, and there were only about 5 onion rings in the thing. Not extra-​fancy onion rings or anything like that that would justify the $ 1 per ring price.
Nothing else we ordered (fish sandwich, crab cakes) was particularly great. The only thing this place has going for it is a nice location on the water. But on the whole, it’s overpriced, the menu is poorly written, there is poor communication from the staff, excessive wait times, and average food. Move on to other clam shacks in the area — this place doesn’t measure up to the competition.

Evelyn’s is my local clamshack, and I have taken many friends there for thirty years. It has real character.
However, the prices are becoming ridiculous. I bought a large lobster roll to go there this week, for $ 23.95. (The small one, for $ 18.95, has a lot less lobster in it). I weighed the lobster when I got home, and there was 4.6 oz in it. Blunts Clamshacks lobster rolls have 4oz of lobster in them and cost $ 11.99, so they are almost half the price.

Great location and classic New England clam shack atmosphere. Food is good, Al the usual suspects on the menu. I’ve had chowder I like better at other places, but not bad.

This place is awful! Clam chowder like wall paper paste! Clam cakes! Where’s the clams? How about $ 52 for a captain’s platter! !!! Oh but wait! There were plenty of French fries to fill up on when you couldn’t find the fish in the fish sandwich! !

Overpriced. $ 45 for a small fried clam and half a dozen clamcakes is unreasonable. They weren’t even that good, there were 2 tiny specks of clam in tbe 3 cakes I ate, sad. The fried clams were good, but knowing how much I paid for each one just killed the happy feeling I could have gotten while eating them. The Girls working the take out counter are extremely rude and won’t tell you the prices untill your order is ready and its time to pay up. I remember going here all the time as a kid with my late grandmother, too bad I can’t afford to take my kids here. Too bad.

This place is marvelous! We’re from Brooklyn, New York and we had dinner here on our last night of stay in Tiverton. The staff are so pleasant and very attentive to our needs. They also keep the place clean. There’s no wait time so we were seated right away. It helped us a lot especially with our hungry 10-​month old boy. They offer market prices which is only fair because their menu is very special! We had lobster lomein and scallop roll. Their food tastes AMAZING! The view is also the best. We were watching the sunset on the water while we were enjoying the one the best dinners we’ve had as a family. I highly recommend this place to tourists!

We go here quite often considering we live 90 minutes away round trip. We recommend to friends and we go at least 2 – 3 times in a week when we do our summer vacation in the area.
On a recent Sunday at 4:10PM in the afternoon two of us stopped by to sit outside and have a couple of beers and eat. In late June on a beautiful summer weekend they did not have all their tables set up for customers. Some open large tables were off-​limits «in case any large groups showed up»?
Our only choice were two tables right next to the back entrance of the dining room. Yet two larger tables were wide open, but could not be used because of the phantom large groups that may appear any minute. (We were 2 long time paying customers standing right in front of them and they let us walk away)
Common sense tells me that it was 4PM well before any kind of dinner rush on a Sunday afternoon and they should of let us sit where we wanted OR opened up one of the 10 empty smaller tables. God forbid if more customers showed up. They lost 2 paying customers because of this.
For the prices they are charging and the amount of times over the years we have been here, I feel jaded by this experience and will not go back. In fact, we drove to Bristol and relaxed at Quitos instead.

While the lobster was super fresh in the lobster roll, no celery and add your own mayo really disappointed. Along with the choice of only one side (I picked cole slaw) it came in a paper thimble and was very skimpy. Basically I find this place very overrated and extremely overpriced. Not worth the money.

We stopped by on May 30, 2015. The food was OK! Nothing special): The location is waterfront, but if you need to use their restroom. they will give you a round-​around. I think they don’t want you to use the restroom as their customer. No restroom sign.
I asked the waitress where was the restroom, she told me it was outside. I walked outside and found myself near to kitchen and asked an employee where is the restroom… she told me it is inside the building! What!!!
I found out later… they have restroom inside the building, but the first waitress I asked gave me a wrong info… even though… I was in front of the bathroom door without a bathroom signage, she told me to keep walking. Thanks people… I will bring my business somewhere!
I am not coming back!!!

I’ve been coming here every summer for the past few years and it’s always been an enjoyable experience. Unfortunately this time it was not!
I decided to take a friend here for dinner last night (9÷7÷14) and the only good thing I can say is that our waitress was good. First off the prices have doubled since my last visit! Seriously, $ 52 for a seafood platter at a drive-​in, this is unheard of. Maybe being features on the food network has gone to their head. As for the flood it was so greasy you could see it dripping off the clams and scallops. The clam cakes had no clams in them mostly dough and the crab cake patties were beyond mushy.
The icing on the cake came after we finished eating when all of a sudden a huge rat walked right by us. We were so sick after seeing this rodent we literally wanted to puke. I told our waitress and she wasn’t even that surprised and she said oh we haven’t seen any of those this year. He apparently told the mgr but he never came out to apologize.
I will never go back here again not will I recommend this dump. I was totally embarrassed being my friend here.

We came here with some friends for dinner after spending the day at 3^rd Beach. We sat outside and I must say, the view was AMAZING.
Our waitress was very attentive and literally checked on us every 5 minutes. Our drinks were served in styrofoam cups… I’m not sure if that’s what they normally do or not, but I thought that was a little odd.
I had the Grilled Scallops with horseradish sauce. The scallops were fresh and cooked perfectly. My husband had the Lobster Roll, which was simple, but he enjoyed it.
The prices are a bit high, but that’s because you’re paying for the view.