Beach Plum Inn & Restaurant

Outstanding food, very fresh. Staff prepares food with great detail, and clearly takes pride in their food. Staff is as nice as can be and very respectful.
Rooms are absolutely amazing. Very clean and well maintained. Staff goes above and beyond to make sure that you are comfortable. I highly recommend the food and staying at this Inn over night. You won’t be disappointed.

At the Beach Plum you are paying for the view. We’ve eaten there for both brunch and dinner many times over the last ten years. In general, the food is OK, but not remarkable in any sense; and the service is spotty – ranging from nonchalant to careless – but always slow.
My advice to anyone contemplating dinner at the Beach Plum is bring along a couple of bottles of your very favorite wines, order something complementary to the wines, keep expectations low, and relax.
And BTW, the grandkids always love the brunch which has lots of choices for them.

The best setting on the vineyard! It was our last night and my parents anniversary so we wanted to do something special. This setting is impeccable! Chickens free roaming on the patio, beautiful view of menemshas famous light house gay head. At sunset everyone leaves their tables including wait staff and takes photos!
We’d come back again, especially for a fine dining experience in the vineyard. My dad and I loved our chicken we orders and the gnocchi we shared. The Chicken was broiled so lightly crispy, they call it crispy on the menu but definitely not like fried chicken way healthier. The gnocchi wasn’t traditionally made but was really good! It was filled with ricotta cheese so bigger than usual gnocchis and more pillowy than most, which I love lighter gnocchis. My mom thought her dish was sub par, not her favorite on the island but good for what she had. Fair review as she had been eating sea food all week and this was the only time she hadn’t eaten sea food on the island.
My only cons of this restaurant were the wait staff was super off. I don’t comment often on wait staff, for the price you pay here they should train better. They were super slow, never even got water refills we asked for. Slow on all food entrees too it was like a two and a half hour dinner. When we first got there when it wasn’t crowded they were attentive when they got crowded they got bad.
My second negative comment is that there aren’t sides that come with the entrees and our portions were pretty small. You’d leave hungry if you don’t order an appetizer.

The food at tonight’s dinner was outstanding! Local tuna, homemade pasta, and bread to die for. The desert of fresh blueberry gelato was a taste sensation! The place was packed so we are obviously not alone in our feelings. And the sunset was a photographer’s dream.

The food is superb and the unusual. I had the scallops, and my friends had pasta and meats of various kinds. But the prices are outrageous, and the service was terrible.

The restaurant offers great food and wonderful, attentive service. Main course portions seem to have grown in size from past offerings, although appetizers remain on the slim side. That’s OK because each appetizer offers such an extraordinary flavor bomb that less is more. Plus, the ingredients are high-​caliber and also add much to the flavor.
The menu changes from time to time, since the restaurant is farm-​to-​table. I can only say that I recently had a ribeye main course that was world-​class and quite memorable. .. even more so with some fine BYOB wines. I am able to contrast this wonderful beef dish with the joke of a ribeye (small, fatty, with bone in, and almost twice the price) I had several weeks earlier at The Breslin in Manhattan.
This is a special place and worth a trip. Not much is inexpensive on Martha’s Vineyard, so if you have to pay up for a restaurant meal, you might as well get something good in return. This place really delivers.

Terrible inattentive service ruined what could have been a special evening.
Thought this would be the perfect place to for a special family celebration. Made reservations and visited the restaurant the day before our reservation to confirm details and select a table. Hostess promised us our table and we were very excited. The day of the reservation I received a call from the restaurant to confirm. The caller had no knowledge of our special request for a table nor notes on the celebration so I reiterated everything. When we arrived at the restaurant a young couple with two children under the age of 5 were seated at the table we requested. We were told that the family had seated themselves and there was nothing that could be done. Our waitress finally appeared after a long wait and said she would return with an ice bucket for the wine we brought. She didn’t bring the ice bucket until we asked twice. The waitress forgot to put in one of the entrée orders and never came over to explain while we all sat waiting for our guest to receive her meal. When the meal finally arrived the waitress did apologize, then she disappeared. She never came back to se if everything was fine. No one offered to bring more water. We had to flag down servers. When we were finished with our meal, the empty plates just sat in front of us until we finally asked that they be cleared. Then we waited and waited for a dessert menu. We finally got the dessert menu but only after I asked for it. Dessert came with a candle for our guest of honor so obviously the staff remembered something. The view is spectacular and the food is very good but the terrible inattentive service really put a damper on a celebration that we were vey exited about
I would have been happy to pay the bill had the service been even average but instead I feel like I was robbed. I feel angry and ripped off. Train your staff!
We will not recommend not will we revisit

Went for dinner and had a great experience watching the sun set over the ocean while enjoying a fabulous dinner. Every course was amazing from starter to dessert and our server was friendly and attentive. Had seared tuna for dinner caught that day in Menemsha and it was the best I’ve ever had. If it’s a nice night you may want to request a table outside in advance but inside by the windows is nice too.

The restaurant at Beach Plum is outstanding. Josh, one of our favorite MV chef, is heading up the kitchen. Owner Sarah Nixon, is hands-​on and always sets a beautiful mood, with outstanding views, and a great crowd. In fact, the night we dined recently, Billy Joel was at the next table. And in true Vineyard style, patrons left him alone. I expect POTUS has already booked his table for his August visit.

If you are familiar with the Inn there is something critical that you should know:
Car passes to LVB and Squibnocket are no longer included in the rate. LVB is up to $ 85 and I think Squib is $ 65. The receptionist explained that the Town of Chilmark asked to take the passes away. This is an incredible shame as most people know that those are the best beaches on the entire island. Walk-​on passes are included. However — it is difficult to get to either beach. The Inn will offer that you take the bikes but the up-​island roads are not safe for novice cyclists.
It would be ideal if the Inn offered a shuttle service a few times per day for guests. Or — they can even offer a service whereby, for a nominal charge, they have a shuttle service. When we arrived I was absolutely heartbroken to learn that I would not be sitting on LVB as I had been dreaming about all year.
My stay otherwise was good. I booked a year in advance for Beach Plum (Morning Glory cottage) and, when we arrived, we were told that we were booked into a cottage on the Menemsha property. That was fine and actually worked out well for us since there was a wedding at the Inn that I heard other guests complaining about. But all told — the Inn could have done a much better job of sending an email about the room change, beach change, and options for getting to other beaches.
As for the restaurant — the menu has changed over the years. We ordered a selection off the appetizer menu and were happy. The cheese plate offers local cheeses which were so tasty. We also got the razor clams which were grilled and delicious in the broth. Service at the restaurant, as always, was perfect. Max is the man to ask for.

Amazing staff, food, and sunset views. Get one of their picnic style tables outside and soak in the ambiance. Lee have been to every resort imaginable and this is on par with the most romantic we’ve experienced. Chef Nathan is amazing and farm-​to-​table is truly an experience.

Dinner here last night was more than magical! We had the cheese plate and sea bass ceviche to start and they were both wonderful. For our main courses I had the pesto gnocchi and the other three people in my party all ordered the fried chicken. My gnocchi was so incredible I never wanted it to end. The gnocchi was light and pillowy and the pesto was just perfect. The fried chicken was also A+++ and we all couldn’t decide what we loved more. For desert we shared the spiced donuts with popcorn ice cream and the blackberry sorbet. No surprise, they were both heavenly as well. Not only was the food and service amazing start to finish, but the view and ambiance were out of this world. It was truly one of the best dining experiences of my life!

Great service, bomb view, and the food was killer. Fresh made, local ingredients, inventive foodie paradise. I thought my wife was going to have a food orgasm over the rhubarb jam and ricotta app.

Love the new chef, Nathan Gould — his use of local ingredients and creative combinations are phenomenal — a great little getaway from down-​island hustle and bustle.

I really do feel bad about this place. There was such a hype and my fiancé and I were so excited to visit this place for their «pop up ramen» night. We decided to bring my mother, and we arrived late but were seated right away with no trouble. Thank god we made that last minute reservation! It was nice to see a place that was actually busy on a Monday at 9pm and we were quickly offered some bread and water. Unfortunately that was the most receptive the waitress would ever be. She never asked for another drink order (which i suppose is forgivable since Chilmark is a dry town), she waited maybe ten to fifteen minutes to take our orders, and when she did, it was «what are you ordering,» instead of «what may I get you this evening?»
We chatted amongst ourselves for the normal amount of time that food takes to be made, but when the bowls were put down in front of us, the bus boy put the wrong dish in front of all three of us. Which isn’t a problem, just a sign of a lack of communication. All the dishes looked tasty, although mine was missing something I had ordered, another sign of miscommunication.
I waited for the waitress to come by to ask how everything was so I could mention the missing item. She never did, and I did see her walk by a number of times. This is why it’s so important to stop and ask how everything was though, because shortly into our meals both my mother and I found tiny bits of plastic wrap in our soups. They were big enough to luckily be noticed before consumption, at least on my part. My mother swallowed hers. And she was fine, in fact I didn’t even notice until I asked her if she had found any, but what if it had gotten stuck? It was simply unacceptable and inexcusable.
It’s a real shame, too, because the food was delicious and the portions were bigger, which I saw was a major problem before. The manager was the real saving grace here though. I brought the plastic to his attention and he comped all of our meals. I was impressed with that, as I had every intention of paying for my fiances meal since his had been unaffected by the plastic. But he insisted and it left me with at least a better taste in my mouth. For this reason I rated the restaurant with three stars because it takes a much higher level of respect for the customer to take a complaint about bad service and odd Ingredients and, instead of accusing us of possibly putting the plastic in the food ourselves or becoming irate and defending his establishment, he simply apologized, took care of everything, and was sincere. Sincerity goes a long way in my book.
I’d say proceed with caution here, maybe try not to go on a super busy night? You can’t be the view though, so go at sunset!

Lovely, lovely, lovely
Wonderful atmosphere, impeccable service and fabulous food. Highly recommend eating here if you are on the Vineyard.

The amazing view has not changed but this is like a new restaurant with chef Nathan Gould and Chef Josh Aronie bringing a new, more approachable menu to the best location on the island. My wife and I had one of the best meals of our life last night there and the only problem was we couldn’t decide which menu item to get. We have been going to the beach plum for years and it was always an experience but now the portions are larger, pricing is more reasonable and I believe quality improved. Congrats to the new team at beach plum as they have an exciting season to come. Anyone that has gone before and was disappointed you need to get back there as in my opinion it is the best the island has to offer.

The Beach Plum is back! Last night was my first visit since last summer and the changes are vast. Locally sourced is a mainstay of this island, but chef Josh Aronie is creating with these resources in a fresh way. The oysters and citrus mignonette were a great start. Then the lamb shank — what can I say — polite company doesn’t lick the bowl in public so, I controlled myself. Finally, blueberry donuts with malted milk anglaise is breakfast for dessert when paired with the 2xchocolate affogato. Also, and most importantly, the staff was outstanding! Thank you David and John. For once in a very long time, the dining experience beat out the sunset. Well done.

Have been here a few times over the years, and it has been re-​done to be more cas, upscale-​barn-​esque. It still has one of the best sunset spots so reserve early to get a spot with a view during sunset.
The menu seemed sparse, and nothing sounded major but let me tell you everything we had was really very good. 4 os us split 2 entrees & 3 apps.
Lobster toast was amazeballs, cheeses, salad & oysters. Chicken & fish special (was it bass?) were delish perfectly cooked & bursting with flavor.

Ok, so I’m not the only one here not impressed with the Beach Plum inn restaurant.
Let’s get this out of the way… the view is spectacular. If you plan in coming, it is BYOB. Try and sit outside, enjoy the view, enjoy your wine. Def a place for a Facebook pic upload and check in if that is your thing. But don’t show up too hungry or expect to leave with a full belly unless you plan on leaving your wallet.
This place puts an emphasis on eating as local as possible, the farm to table thing.
The portions here are small. I am NOT a big eater… as a matter of fact my husband and I always share an app & an entrée when we eat out and it usually works out well for us. He spied a few entrees pass our table and said, you are on you own.
We were with a group so we ordered 2 apps, some bread with rock salt and oil ($ 5) and a beet salad (forgot price). The bread came– 2 slices the size of biscotti. The 5 of us shared that and each had 1 – 2 bites of the tiny beets. No other breads were offered to the table.
Two of us had the chicken leg and thigh on a bed of sautéed corn and mushrooms., $ 36. One look at those little scrawny fowl legs and I thought, someone needs to feed their chickens more. We picked those bones clean and did our best to clear the rest of the plate, a little bread would have helped that effort. They were tasty but nothing over the top. I would have been happy to pay, say, $ 20 for that entrée. At $ 36 I felt cheated.
One of had tuna and one had bluefish. They were small portions, also in the upper $ 30 range. Not bad, just not… special.
One person in our group wanted a vegetarian dish, none was offered, so the chef came out and personally discussed what he could do for her. That was a nice touch until he seemed a bit insulted that she didn’t love peas. According to him they are the best thing in the world. Ok. She said she didn’t love beans either. He replied «Are you SURE?» And she’s like, I’m 48 yrs old. I’m pretty sure. So he said he would come up with something that she would enjoy. What she got was a sautéed plate of veggies on chick peas for $ 32.
The plate size here is smaller than an average dinner plate, FYI.
We had 2 bottles of white wine, we were charged 2 corking fees of $ 8 each. No one uncorked our bottles but us and we never saw the requested ice buckets either.
Our waitress was dressed in jeans, tee shirt, with a piece of paper and a pen crammed in her back pocket for orders. She was perfectly pleasant but I felt like wait staff in a setting such as this charging this much should be dressed more appropriate. A white button down and khakis would suit the atmosphere and prices being charged yet still keep with the vineyard casual theme.
The chocolate pie/​ganache dessert was delicious. The blueberry pie thing was ordinary. The chocolate plate was fine. It was chocolate broken up on a slate with some honey and anemic looking berries.
By the time we finished up, we were all laughing that we were hungry again!
Our bill came to $ 262 before tip for 2 apps, 5 entrees, 3 desserts a $ 4 cup of decaf and 2 corking fees. We are not cheap people. We spend the summer here on MV. We know what to expect from the restaurants here and we know they have a short amount of time to make their bank for the year. We felt like we were being fleeced because of the location and view. My husband said «it’s like the emperor’s new clothes. No one wants to say that it isn’t the best thing they have ever eaten because no one wants to admit they just paid THAT much for THAT little.» (I just read another review that said the same thing! Ha!)
We don’t mind paying for an amazing dinner in a setting so gorgeous, but that dinner didn’t cut it. Come one, Beach Plum, you can do better. Don’t dig your grave by banking on the view over the food