Or any old Friday night, or Saturday, or weekday. No matter when you visit O’Maddy’s, it feels like you’re on vacation, its open-air ambience matched by an open-minded vibe that’s ideal for the live-and-let-live ethos of Gulfport. We’ll always remember an evening on the cusp of Easter weekend this year, when the crackerjack duo Pete and Dean sang country-esque covers, a gal named Pepper channeled ’80s rap with her David Bowie lookalike girlfriend, and the food, like divers scallops with bacon brittle, was 100 better times than we expected it to be.
This article appears in Sep 19-25, 2013.