Drift Restaurant

11/04/2026

🎤🍹 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

10/29/2026

CHANGE YOUR PLANS TO DRIFT. 🤤🔥 These two specials deserve your full attention—and probably extra napkins.

🧀 BIRRIA DIP & MELT
Slow-braised beef birria, gooey mozzarella, cilantro, and onion tucked between crispy, golden sourdough. Served with rich consommé for dunking and fries for catching the drips. Dip it. Melt a little. Go back for more.

🦞 LOADED LOBSTER DRIFT’ITOS
Our crispy, made-from-scratch Drift’itos piled with 5 oz of lobster, smothered in creamy house-made queso, and finished with fresh pico de gallo and jalapeños. Decadent, a little feisty, and almost certainly grounds for refusing to share.

One brings the cheese pull. The other brings the lobster. You bring the appetite. 🍴

📍 DRIFT | 37 Pratt St, Essex, CT

10/28/2026

🎤🍹 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

10/23/2026

🔥🍂 A LITTLE FALL FLAVOR, A LITTLE CRUNCH, AND A WHOLE LOTTA DRIFT! 🍂🔥

This weekend’s specials are bringing some serious flavor to the table! One’s a little fancy, the other’s a little rowdy. Both are ridiculously delicious. 🤤

🍂🐷 OTOÑO MOLÉ PORK CHOP

A beautifully seared, juicy bone-in pork chop served over rustic garlic mashed potatoes and a rich, velvety árbol chile mole. The chiles lend a deep, earthy complexity and subtle smokiness rather than fiery heat. Finished with a drizzle of Mexican crema, crispy onion strings, tangy pickled onions, and fresh microgreens. A comforting autumn dish with bold Mexican-inspired flavors and a little DRIFT flair.

🎤🍗 TAIWANESE POPCORN CHICKEN

Consider this your backstage pass to our Wednesday night DRUNKEN JUKEBOX KARAOKE snack menu! 🎶

Bite-sized pieces of tender white-meat chicken, coated in tapioca flour and fried to golden, crispy perfection. Tossed with Sichuan peppercorns, salt, white pepper, and fragrant fried basil, then served with a creamy Kewpie-Sriracha aioli for dipping.

Crispy, juicy, savory, and dangerously snackable. 🤤

We’re giving you a sneak peek THIS WEEKEND before it joins the karaoke lineup on Wednesday nights! Because nothing pairs better with questionable singing than ridiculously good chicken. 🎤🍗

Come hungry this weekend. Come back Wednesday to sing your heart out. The worse you sing, the more we like you. 😂🎶

📍 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