Ziggy's — Restaurant in Plymouth

Ziggy’s in Plymouth has such a prime location — right on the main waterfront strip. This also makes it a great spot to stop when you’re walking around downtown or after dinner vibes. The view of the harbor is beautiful, and having everything within steps is definitely a plus.

Now about the spot, Service is friendly, and they’ve always kept the place clean, especially during the busy hours. I’m a local so I’ve been going here for years..but I just so happened to go on a summer, Sunday night, and it took quite a while to be helped. It seemed they only had 3 people working which seemed unusual considering how busy it gets, and was. Lately, I also feel like the ice cream quality has gone downhill.. My milkshake was super watery, which was disappointing, especially for the price. Everyone else in my group ordered simple, classic flavors and said theirs were decent, but nothing special. Overall, the atmosphere and setting are great, but the ice cream and speed of service just didn’t match the expectations I used to have...

On our way up to the Cape this summer, we stopped in Plymouth and wanted to eat lunch at a place quicker than a sit down restaurant since we weren’t planning on staying long, just wanted to do some sightseeing. We honestly may have been better off going to a sit down restaurant with how long it took us here. They desperately needed to work on their system of how they were taking orders and managing the grill. When we got up to the counter, she asked us if we would be ordering any ice cream with our meal, which we said yes, we wanted the fried dough ice cream sundae. She said she would make that for us first, which we didn’t really want before our meal, but it didn’t seem like we had a choice. So, we ended up having to eat the whole sundae before our lunch because it was melting on the hot fried dough. When we finally got our lunch, the French fries had been left in the frier for way too long, and everything was just subpar. It’s too bad, because it was...

Just ten years ago, the ice cream options in downtown Plymouth were huge. There was the Friendly's across from the IGA on Sandwich St, the great Duxbury ice cream stand Farfar's had a location on Court St., Peaceful Meadows was the next building over on Water St, and then you had Ziggy's.

It's been an area institution since the 1960s, and it used to be great, but it's slipped a bit. Part of it was when they went upmarket and "prettified," with a polished corporate interior and seating space (it was strictly take-out, in the old days). The prices jacked up to match the tourists' wallets, they started to serve other foods (mediocre in quality), and the ice cream wasn't as good as it once was. As others have mentioned, it's a seasonal joint, but then again it always was.

It's really the only option left right on the waterfront (PM moving to Village Landing, and Friendly's and Farfar's closing), but I'd like the 1970s-80s Ziggy's...