Ship's Cellar Pub

05/05/2026

Happy Cinco de Mayo!! 🌮🍹

Come celebrate with us in the pub tonight! We’re open until 8pm—cool off with a house margarita your way and house-made chips & salsa for $15.

02/09/2026

Love isn’t just on the menu—it’s in our kitchen, our dining room, and every smiling face that makes the YHI feel like home. Happy Valentine’s week from our crew to you. 💕

Join us this week and help us share the love!

01/02/2026

12/27/2025

10/29/2025

Shrimp Taco lunch special just dropped - stop by the Ship's Cellar Pub for lunch today!

10/24/2025

🎃 Pumpkin Creme Brulee 🎃 has entered the chat! Join us this weekend at the 1637 Main Dining Room or down below in the Ship's Cellar Pub for a taste of fall and this week's Chef's Suggestions:https://yorkharborinn.com/dining/tonights-chefs-suggestions/

10/02/2025

Ted has been a regular performer at the YHI for decades!
Come see Ted in our Cellar Pub on Saturday Oct 25th 8pm

In 1994, Showcase Magazine ran a piece on Grateful Ted, penned by the one-and-only Scot Geliznas. Dover knew Ted well. Theodore “Ted” Solovicos was the soul of Lost Chord on the upper square, and before that, at Lacy’s Lines and Lyrics. It was in these shops, and with those booking live music, Ted championed local musicians.

Grateful Ted had an ear for talent. He stocked the vinyl, tapes, and CDs of bands he believed were bound for bigger things, including Say Zuzu, Thanks to Gravity, Heavens to Murgatroid, Groovechild, Blind Justice, and Osta-Karre. He said these bands mattered, and for some local teens in the late ’80s and ’90s, flipping through his bins was the first time they understood the New Hampshire seacoast could make music to stand beside legends.

Ted also helped keep vinyl alive, long before the record revival of today. He believed in its staying power, once saying that “today’s bargain is tomorrow’s collector’s item.”

Earlier in his career, Ted fronted the North Shore rock band Smuggler, who opened for acts like Bon Jovi, Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople, and John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

Ted never stopped performing. As Grateful Ted, his percussive acoustic sets were amazing. In 2017, he returned to Dover for a show at the Strand that felt less like a gig and more like a homecoming.

Ted is still making music with Rosemarie in their project Mystical Magic. His vision hasn’t changed: great songs never fade, and community is what makes music endure.

09/03/2025

Our Ship's Cellar Pub open for Lunch daily at 12 noon!

02/04/2025

01/21/2025

Fish Fry Tuesdays all winter in our cozy pub!