Beach Haven · est. 1870s
Our Story.
Chapter one
The original Ellis.
Long before the boardwalk took its current shape, Beach Haven was a railroad town. A steam ferry brought summer visitors across the bay, and a handful of locals built lives serving the people stepping off it.
One of them was Ellis Parker. He ran a restaurant, a houseboat operation, and a small boat-engine shop out of the same bayfront block we're standing on today.
Naming the place after him wasn't a stretch — it was a debt.
Chapter two
A collaboration, not a clone.
Ellis' is a partnership between Chef Kyle Baddorf and longtime Tide Table name Billy Mehl. The brief was simple: gather the sorta-famous dishes from across the Tide Table family — Parker's fried chicken, Mud City's jumbo lump crab cakes — under one roof.
Add a few new dishes built for the way people actually eat at the beach. Porch-able, hand-able, packable, worth lining up for.
The family
One island. Eight kitchens.
Ellis' is part of the Tide Table Group — a family of seafood houses, steakhouses, beach bars, and oyster spots all over Long Beach Island.
- Parker's Garage ↗
Garage-turned-bar, raw bar & sorta famous fried chicken.
- Bird & Betty's ↗
Surf-soaked Beach Haven beach bar & restaurant.
- Black Whale Bar & Fish House ↗
Bay-front oyster house & seafood classics.
- Mud City Crabhouse ↗
Jumbo lump crab cakes, by the bay since '76.
- Old Causeway Steak & Oyster House ↗
Steakhouse + raw bar, the Tide Table flagship.
- Hollow Pines ↗
Pine-forward bistro & cocktail bar.