SeacoastSearch.com proudly presents the best good, honest, inexpensive local food Visit Seacoast #1 Dining Guide PETEY'S SUMMERTIME SEAFOOD & BAR 1215 Ocean Blvd., Rye, NH  03870-2206 11:30 am - 9:30 pm Tues- Sun, 5pm - 9:30pm Monday Tale-out closses 1/2 hour earlier (603) 433-1937 Pay attention tourists! This is where we locals eat. This is Petey's sign just across from the beach area at Rye. It's not fine art, but it means fine-eatin' seafood, including the best darned take-out fish chowder we've found in the Seacoast. And we are VERY choosey about chowda. Don't know why, but few local restaurants can make a really good milk-based chowder with lots of fish and no frills, just the way Grampa made it. Petey knows how. This is where we eat when we go for Petey's take-out.  There's a bar and a dining room, but we prefer the outdoors. Owner Peter Aikens Jr. is a local and started running Petey's up at Foye's corner soon after high school. He moved to this site at what used to be the Harbormaster Restaurant. recently and the crowds have rediscovered his great seafood. Peter says he uses no frozen products, just fresh seafood, and always Essex clams from Ipswich..  Peter also owns Petey's Red Roof Market just up the road, not to mention the Atlantic Fourwinds Efficnies nearby. He works 18-hour days all summer and we plan to make him work harder by stopping by often.   For the best in Seacoast Dining SeacoastNH.com DINING GUIDE THE PENNY GOURMET AWARD (sm) is presented occasionally by SeacoastSearch.com and SeacoastNH.com The award includes free web page and hosting and is intended as an editorial comment & public service to our readers & is not a paid advertisement. Copyright © 2001 SeacoastNH.com