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THE YARDARM

The Yardarm: A Local Tradition Since 1972

The Yardarm Restaurant is a small place with a big imprint. We pride ourselves on being the go-to meeting spot for locals in Orleans. On any given day, you may find fisherman, physicians, businessmen, men and women from all walks of life; all sharing stories over drinks or watching old movies, the Patriots, the Boston Red Sox or the Celtics. The Yardarm is a place where friends meet and new friends are met.

A big reason for our popularity is our fresh food, made daily. We have a great selection of dishes in many different styles, from steaks to homemade Gumbos to pasta dishes, but there’s no one else who prepares fish dishes like we do. In fact, the Yardarm is where the local fisherman go to eat.

You’ll meet some locals, hear some tall tales and see a slice of authentic Cape Cod. We’ve been around since 1972 and have seen our share of squalls and washashores, heard all manner of sea tales, local scuttlebutt and hearsay. Come on in, we’ll raise a glass with you and wish you all the best in your seaside adventures!

48 Massachusetts 28, Orleans, MA
phone: 508-255-4840
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Downed power line sparks brush fire in Orleans
Sunday August 24, 2025
ORLEANS ? A downed power line sparked a brush fire in Orleans sometime after 3 PM Sunday. Firefighters called for brush trucks to get through the each the rugged terrain near the Orleans town well field off Eli Rogers Road. Eversource was requested to cut power to the line so the fire could be completely [?] The post Downed power line sparks brush fire in Orleans appeared first on CapeCod.com.
Breaking: Major crash reported in Orleans
Sunday August 24, 2025
ORLEANS ? A major traffic was reported in Orleans about 8 AM Sunday. Three vehicles were reportedly involved with at least two colliding head-on. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extricate at least one victim from the wreckage. One person was transported to Cape Cod Gateway Airport to meet a MedFlight helicopter to be [?] The post Breaking: Major crash reported in Orleans appeared first on CapeCod.com.
Lifeguards rescue two swimmers caught in rip current at Nauset Beach in Orleans
Friday August 22, 2025
ORLEANS ? Lifeguards rescued two swimmers caught in a rip current at Nauset Beach about 2 PM. The two were evaluated by EMTs but declined to go to the hospital. Hurricane Erin has been causing dangerous rip currents up and down the east coast. Follow the advise of lifeguards when at the beach for your [?] The post Lifeguards rescue two swimmers caught in rip current at Nauset Beach in Orleans appeared first on CapeCod.com.
The Outermost House
Friday August 22, 2025
?Outermost cliff and solitary dune?this is Eastham; this is the Outer Cape?Having known and loved this land for many years, it came about that I found myself free to visit there, and so I built myself a house upon the beach.?              Recently I finished reading Henry Beston's ?Cape Cod: how the outermost house inspired a National Seashore? (2013) by Don Wilding.  I've read Beston in the past and meant to bring him along this year but forgot.  Wilding is interesting.  It's short but has a lot of detail about Beston and Eastham.  He leased some land a few miles from the Life Guard station and hired local carpenters to build his dune house.  It was an escape, a retreat.  He had served in WW I and lived in Quincy, MA.  Now he could get away from everything human.  Live fullest in the natural world, ocean, beach, sand, wind, rain, birds.              Sometimes he stayed in the Overbrook Inn (near the current National Seashore Visitor's Center). Today it's known as The Inn of the Oaks. There are other local references. He once stays at a house on Hemenway Road. There are references to the Whalewalk Inn on Bridge Street. It's still an Eastham classic. The Nauset Inn in Orleans is mentioned. Henry talks with students in the old schoolhouse (it's now a small museum across from the Visitor's Center). We visited last year and bought a painting at an outdoor show.                 Henry wrote other books but none as known as well as ?The Outermost House.? His prose is lyrical, poetic, a bit of shore magic. Readers go back to it again and again. I will probably read read in the coming month. Initially Henry lived in the house, he called it the fo'castle, for several years in the late 1920s although he condensed his stay into a literary year. He returned to Quincy, marries, has two daughters, buys a house in Maine. Sometimes he returned to his Eastham dune house. Eventually he donates it to the Audubon Society.             Henry's fo'castle is crowned a National Literary Landmark in 1974. It had been an inspiration for local and national politicians who established the national seashore in 1961. I was intrigued that for years it was rented like some of the Provincetown dune shacks. It surrendered to ocean wind and rain during a blizzard in 1978. It was decided not to rebuild.             ?My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in September. The fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go. The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year.?         ?The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.?   ? Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
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