Bobby Byrne’s Pub, an “Eating, Drinking and Talking Establishment”,  first opened in Mashpee on July 26, 1973. It was conceived, designed, built, decorated and tended by Bobby Byrne who, prior to that time, had been a bartender for nineteen years, starting out in Beverly Hills, stopping in New York City for six years, then coming to Cape Cod. 

Bobby’s philosophy and his vision for his pubs are described herein:

“We make the ordinary extraordinary by expressing each Pub in terms of art. Our method, and indeed our madness, is using language and artifact to reveal the Pub’s soul. To quote Seamus Heaney from his Nobel Lecture in 1995, we want to make use of “the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion,” and we want to tap “the power that reminds us we are hunters and gatherers of value.”

By celebrating language and artifact, we pray that our “pubsong” sings of the many thoughts and feelings that humans experience. We hope our display of language and artifact evokes a response in you…