Est. 1965
Sixty years of butter & old bay.
Hilltop opened its doors on Gap Newport Pike in 1965 as a roadside tavern with a small kitchen, one steamer, and a band on stage. Six decades later we're still here, still on the same corner, still steaming crabs to order and keeping the music playing.
Seafood, taken seriously.
Our crab arrives fresh, never frozen when the season allows. Mussels and clams are sourced from East Coast farms and steamed to order — never sitting under a heat lamp.
A tavern, not a temple.
We're loud, casual, and a little weathered around the edges. Bring the kids, the in-laws, your softball team. Mallets and bibs are on the house.
Local, every night.
We employ neighbors. We hire locally. The same regulars sit at the same bar stools they've claimed for thirty years. That's the point.
Three generations.
One paper-covered table.
From the first crab feast in '65 to the friends at our tables tonight, Hilltop has always been about gathering. The food is the excuse — the people are the reason.