Chubby Buddha

Tried to support this establishment. In a coastal community. We own rental property nearby and wanted to support. The minute the «owners daughter» bartender heard we weren’t local her attitude turned. She put almost no alcohol in a mixed drink, and when we questioned the lack of alcohol she charged us full price for another shot. It was the best $ 13.00 mixed drink WE ever had at Ocean Isle Beach. Even the customers agreed she was not nice. Do NOT RECOMMEND. However, WD DO recommend Pelicans on the island.

When I go to Ocean Isle I always love going to the CHUBBY BUDDA. We live in Raleigh and have a weekend get away place. The last time we went we unfortunately had an extremely RUDE bartender JULIE. Hateful and condescending. I will never go back! Julie needs to chose another profession!!!

Everyone is different so my review is purely objective. First off they have a $ 1 membership which I believe is because of a loop hole that allows there customers to smoke so this is a smoking establishment. It isn’t a very big place with the front section having only seating at the bar and the rear of the bar with some tables. The food was good but is not prepared in house but next door at Antonio’s we had Wings and garlic knots. They do have a Touch Tunes Juke Box and staff and local customers are pretty friendly maybe a little rough around the edges so this probably isn’t the place you wanna bring your kids.

The atmosphere sucked. The bartender said it was the law to pay the $ 5 membership fee to order a drink. Which I refused but I was still able to order a drink. It went downhill from there. I waited for my food next door I figured I’ll get a drink at the bar. My intentions were to stay, eat and use the pool table, that didn’t happen. I grabbed my food and left as quick as possible. I should have just waited outside.

This is a completely debaucherous dive bar located kinda in the middle of nowhere but close enough to the NC /​SC border shores to draw a combination of local yokels and drunken travelers. Upon entering the bar with a group of people, I went to buy a round of drinks and was asked to sign a «sign in» sheet because it’s a «private club.» This was surely to get names of those who need to piece together the previous night on the next day as I think we were down a cell phone, a wallet, and a person (yes, we lost a person) after leaving. They were nice and posted on facebook to the person who left their phone. They did not disturb people playing tonsil hockey in the parking lot. They have an internet connected juke box and a pool table. The pool table doesn’t return the cue ball if you scratch, but you will definitely be too drunk to care and can use the 8ball as a suitable replacement. The owner is a Mets fan from Brooklyn, so its the perfect Yankee hang in polite-​ville. You won’t remember the bulk of your time here, but sometimes that’s just what you need to get a vacation started. Leave the kids at home and try to be quiet as you sneak in home later.

Me likey. Dive bar on the runway strip at Ocean Isle Beach. Foosball and a pool table, poker machines, popcorn and pretzels. Very nice employees and patrons. A civilized way to spend an afternoon, with a red eye out of the heat in an air conditioned bar. Ommmmmm.