Spreading love since 1976
Located in the heart of Ipswich MA, we are a celebrated neighborhood restaurant serving the Greater Boston Area, North Shore, Central Massachusetts, & Southern New Hampshire regions of New England with custom clambakes for any occasion.
Our aim is simple – We want to make you smile! This is why we offer you a safe, healthy, and reliably indulgent eating experience every single time. Personalization is at the heart of all our efforts and our menu is a direct reflection of the client feedback we have captured over the years.
OUR SERVICES

Restaurant
Our extensive restaurant menu is carefully curated to capture customer feedback and generates a loyal following all-year-round. We offer a variety of dishes including fried, baked, and grilled entrée offerings, seafood platters, homemade soups, sandwiches, salads, fish, and even lobsters! Every dish on our menu is sure to be soul-stirring. Bring your friends, family and plan to eat-in or take-out to have wonderful food around.

Catering
With over 70 years of combined experience, we deliver restaurant-quality cuisine to your event venue. Our services constantly evolving & we go one step beyond our duties to ensure that your event is a success. Our chefs are always working hard to develop new recipes & ensure that menus are exciting. We understand every event is unique & offer you a variety of menus that can be customized as per your requirements.

Wedding & Events
From informal beach events to formal china/tent events, we are ready to provide innovative menus, stellar quality, and excellent service. We do lots of clambake weddings both formal with china and informal with paper products. Our network of event planners and additional services can assist you with every detail in planning for our wedding, gala, conference, luncheon, and special holiday celebration.
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IPSWICH CLAMBAKE'S CATERING MENUS

Catering
We have several different catering package options that we will use as a starting point to create a menu for your event’s specific needs. If you don’t see exactly what you are looking for here, don’t be disappointed, just ask. We are always willing and able to accommodate any reasonable request to make your event exactly as you imagine it. Explore our menu by selecting an option to see more details. Contact us for more information.

Luncheon
When you are having a luncheon for your staff, guests, and clients you want to be sure that every preference and dietary need is considered. Great food makes for a productive and successful day. We offer a wide variety of selections that we can deliver and set up ready to eat for you. This will be done with maximum efficiency and safety. We offer Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free dishes that you will be proud to serve for those with special dietary needs.

Malinda's Asian Dishes
Malinda was born in Cambodia and grew up during the Khmer Rouge occupation made famous in the movie “The Killing Fields.” She learned to cook Asian food from a very young age. She escaped Cambodia with her family and fled eventually to the Philippines where she lived in a refugee camp for several years before coming to the US in 1984. Malinda speaks 5 languages and has acquired experience across a broad variety of Asian cuisines.
TESTIMONIALS
"Great place! Always end up here after driving by a competitor that always has a big line and have never been disappointed. Best tartar sauce I have ever tasted and the clams are light and terrific too, never too greasy like other places. Fast, friendly service too, very clean inside and nice tables w umbrellas outside."
Bill F
"Stopped here after taking in some of the great trails around the area. We got the lobster roll and grilled halibut and everything was really, really good. Like, hand cut fries with the perfect amount of salt, colorful and delicious coleslaw, and homemade tartar sauce with pickles that fell from heaven. 10/10 would recommend if you’re in the market for quick and delicious."
Lindsay Johnstone
"Fabulous tender sweet perfectly fried clams, some of the best chowder I've ever had. This place is a little gold mine, and none of the crazy lines that Woodman's of Essex has. Glad we found it, the owner Ken was super nice and came and checked to make sure we were enjoying our meal, lovely, cheerful staff and wonderful food -- go here, you will not be disappointed."