Drift Restaurant

10/20/2026

🎤🍹 DRUNKEN JUKEBOX KARAOKE — WEDNESDAY NIGHTS AT DRIFT! 🎶🔥

Got pipes like Beyoncé? Great. Sound like a dying seagull? EVEN BETTER. 🦅🎤

We’re turning up the volume and lowering the standards every Wednesday starting at 7 PM!

🍹 Scorpion Bowls — Liquid courage, served strong.
🍢 Meat on a Stick — Because everything tastes better on a stick.
🔥 Food & Drink Specials — And plenty more to keep the bad decisions flowing!

Come hungry, leave hoarse, and sing your damn heart out. Whether you’re a rockstar or a walking noise complaint, there’s a microphone with your name on it.

TALENT IS OPTIONAL. THIRST IS NOT. 🍻

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St., Essex, CT

10/19/2026

👻 GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN! 👻

🎃💀 This Halloween, we’re raising spirits… and lowering standards. 🍸

🕸️ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 | 8 PM ’TIL THE WITCHING HOUR!

DRIFT is getting downright SPOOKY, and you’re invited to come dressed to kill! 🔪🩸

🎧 DJ DANCE PARTY – Shake what your mummy gave ya!

🏆 COSTUME CONTEST – Killer prizes for the best costumes! Bring your A-game, you beautiful freaks.

🍹 BOO’ZE SPECIALS – Wicked drink specials and enough liquid courage to wake the dead!

🧟 Come for the BOO’ze, stay for the boos, and make some decisions that’ll haunt you until Thanksgiving.

NO TRICKS. JUST TREATS, BEATS & BAD DECISIONS. 🎃🍻

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St. | Essex, CT

GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN! 👻

🎃💀 This Halloween, we’re raising spirits… and lowering standards. 🍸

🕸️ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 | 8 PM ’TIL THE WITCHING HOUR!

DRIFT is getting downright SPOOKY, and you’re invited to come dressed to kill! 🔪🩸

🎧 DJ DANCE PARTY – Shake what your mummy gave ya!

🏆 COSTUME CONTEST – Killer prizes for the best costumes! Bring your A-game, you beautiful freaks.

🍹 BOO’ZE SPECIALS – Wicked drink specials and enough liquid courage to wake the dead!

🧟 Come for the BOO’ze, stay for the boos, and make some decisions that’ll haunt you until Thanksgiving.

NO TRICKS. JUST TREATS, BEATS & BAD DECISIONS. 🎃🍻

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St. | Essex, CT

10/18/2026

GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN! 👻

🎃💀 This Halloween, we’re raising spirits… and lowering standards. 🍸

🕸️ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 | 8 PM ’TIL THE WITCHING HOUR!

DRIFT is getting downright SPOOKY, and you’re invited to come dressed to kill! 🔪🩸

🎧 DJ DANCE PARTY – Shake what your mummy gave ya!

🏆 COSTUME CONTEST – Killer prizes for the best costumes! Bring your A-game, you beautiful freaks.

🍹 BOO’ZE SPECIALS – Wicked drink specials and enough liquid courage to wake the dead!

🧟 Come for the BOO’ze, stay for the boos, and make some decisions that’ll haunt you until Thanksgiving.

NO TRICKS. JUST TREATS, BEATS & BAD DECISIONS. 🎃🍻

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St. | Essex, CT

10/08/2026

🚨 THIS WEEKEND AT DRIFT: ONE BAD IDEA AND ONE REALLY GOOD REASON TO LOVE FALL. 🍂🐔🍦🔥

Starting TODAY, we’ve got two weekend specials that couldn’t be more different—and we’re pretty obsessed with both.

🐔🍦 WHAT THE CLUCK?!
We didn’t want to make this sandwich. Seriously. But our staff wouldn’t shut up about it, and unfortunately… they were right. 😂

Crispy hot honey chicken, fresh microgreens, and a whole scoop of VANILLA ICE CREAM. Yes, ON the sandwich. Sweet, spicy, hot, cold, and absolutely ridiculous. It shouldn’t work. It has no business being this good. But here we are.

🎃🔥 SMOKY PUMPKIN PENNE
Now THIS is how you do fall comfort food! Tender penne tossed in a rich, velvety pumpkin-chipotle cream sauce with smoky andouille sausage and sautéed onions. Finished with cool crema, crumbled queso fresco, and fresh cilantro. Creamy, smoky, a little spicy, and the kind of dish that’ll make you forget all about pumpkin spice lattes.

One special makes absolutely no sense. The other makes perfect sense. Both are ridiculously delicious.

Available starting TODAY and through the weekend at DRIFT! Come hungry, bring your appetite, and maybe leave your judgment at the door. 😏

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St., Essex, CT

10/08/2026

🐔🍦 WHAT THE CLUCK?! 🔥

Somebody in our kitchen needs adult supervision. 😂

We didn’t want to make this sandwich. We really didn’t. But our staff wouldn’t shut up about it, so we finally gave in. And the worst part? IT’S ACTUALLY RIDICULOUSLY GOOD.

Meet WHAT THE CLUCK?! 🐔🔥

Crispy hot honey chicken, fresh microgreens, and a big ol’ scoop of VANILLA ICE CREAM. 🍦

Yes. Ice cream. ON. THE. CHICKEN. SANDWICH.

Hot meets cold. Sweet meets spicy. Crispy meets creamy. It’s a culinary identity crisis, and somehow it’s one of the most delicious bad decisions we’ve ever made.

Does it make sense? Absolutely not.

Would we recommend it? Unfortunately, yes.

Don’t knock it ’til you cluck it. 🐔😂

🔥 Available starting TODAY, all weekend long at DRIFT! Come find out why our staff wouldn’t let this one go.

📍 37 Pratt St. | Essex, CT

09/30/2026

🍂 FALL JUST PULLED INTO ESSEX. 🍂

The leaves are changing, the air is getting crisp, and the DRIFT kitchen understood the assignment. Our new fall menu is landing with some old favorites, some serious comfort food, and a few things that may require stretchy pants.

🦞 Lobster Rangoon Dip — We took the Rangoon you love, blew it apart, and made it dippable. Warm, creamy Rangoon dip loaded with 2 oz. of lobster + crispy wontons.

🍩 Delicata Squash Doughnut Rings ARE BACK — Crispy fried delicata squash, honey-chili drizzle + toasted pumpkin seeds. If you know, you know.

🍣 Spicy Tuna Musubi Crispy Rice — Brown sugar-soy marinated Spam, spicy tuna, avocado + jalapeño over crispy rice with a red w**e reduction. Sweet. Salty. Spicy. Gone quickly.

🤠 Rodeo Smash Burger — Double smashed patties, smoked Gouda, bacon, BBQ sauce, crispy onion strings + jalapeños. Yee. And we cannot stress this enough: haw.

🥩 Cowboy Ribeye — 12 oz. ribeye with cowboy butter, crispy smashed potatoes with rosemary oil + Maldon salt, honey-glazed carrots and pecans. Fall dinner has officially entered its steak era.

🔥 Blackened Salmon Alfredo — Blackened salmon over cavatelli in a rich Cajun-Parmesan Alfredo with garlic-roasted tomatoes + parsley.

🍁 Roasted Delicata Squash Salad — Baby kale, roasted delicata squash, red beets, toasted pumpkin seeds + pomegranate, tossed in a cumin-spiced c***r dressing.

Summer was fun. But she had to go.
Fall at DRIFT is richer, crispier, butterier and ready for you. 🍂🥃

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St., Essex, CT

Come hungry. The new season tastes pretty damn good.

09/27/2026

🌊 THE NOR’EASTER IS NO MORE. 🌊

You sheltered in place.
You watched the wind.
You picked up branches.
You’ve done enough.

Now you need a drink and something you didn’t have to cook.

DRIFT is OPEN ALL DAY TODAY — SEPTEMBER 27. 🍸🦞🍔

The storm has passed, the kitchen is fired up, and the cocktails are pouring. Get out of the house, come down to the water, and let us do the work for a change.

You survived the storm. Reward yourself accordingly.

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St., Essex

09/25/2026

🦞 NATIONAL LOBSTER DAY — ONE LAST CLAW-DOWN. 🦞

Today’s not just National Lobster Day… it’s your LAST DAY to get your claws on our full Lobster Menu before it disappears with the tide. 🌊

🔥 Mardi Claw Roll — Cajun butter-poached lobster, crispy andouille & house-made remoulade.

🇰🇷 Lobster Roll With Seoul — gochujang butter-poached lobster, kimchi, gochujang aioli & crispy ginger frizzle.

And there’s MORE lobster leaving the building after today. So if you’ve been saying “I need to try that…” — THIS IS YOUR SIGN.

🍂 PLUS: THE FALL MENU DROPS TODAY.
🥩 Cowboy Ribeye
🎃 Delicata Squash Rings are BACK
🔥 And a whole bunch of new DRIFT ridiculousness ready for sweater weather.

And yeah… we see that storm coming. 👀🌧️

Beat the storm. Eat the lobster. Get one more DRIFT night in before Mother Nature puts us all on the couch.

🦞 National Lobster Day
🍂 New Fall Menu
🌊 One hell of a Thursday at DRIFT.

There’s even more coming this weekend… stay tuned. 👀

📍 37 Pratt St. • Essex, CT

09/22/2026

HAPPY HOUR IS BACK! YOUR 3–5 JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT HAPPIER. 🍹🌊

Happy Hour at DRIFT is serving up big bites, cold drinks & waterfront vibes every weekday from 3–5 PM.

🍔 $6 Smashburger Sliders
🐔 $6 Chicken Sando Sliders
🌽 $6 Drift’itos & Street Corn
🥣 $6 Chowder
🍟 $4 Fries
🍹 $8 Margaritas — pick your flavor
🍷 $8 House W**e
🍺 $5 Craft B**r Cans
🍻 $4 High Life, Narragansett & Michelob Ultra

And because we’re DRIFT… add lobster to those Drift’itos for $10. 🦞

Clock out early. Grab your people. Get yourself by the water.

Weekdays • 3–5 PM
📍 37 Pratt St. • Essex, CT

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