The best restaurants in Lakeville, MA are spread across a few small clusters: a brewery taproom in Lakeville Center, a wood-fired pizzeria on Route 105 in north Lakeville, a plaza of counters on Harding Street at the town’s northern tip, two pizza kitchens on County Street, and four golf clubhouses that feed the public as happily as they feed members. That’s close to the entire list inside town lines, so this guide also covers the kitchens 10 to 25 minutes out in Middleborough, East Freetown and New Bedford, naming the town each one actually sits in.
Lakeville’s Restaurant Clusters and Price Tiers
Lakeville has no restaurant row and nothing you can walk between. The town covers about 36 square miles and holds about 11,500 people, with roughly 18% of its area under water (Wikipedia), so dinner always involves a car even when the drive is short.
The unusual part is how much of the town’s dining hangs off a golf course. Four golf properties operate in a town this size, and all four run a bar or dining room anyone can walk into without a tee time.
Price tiers stay narrow. Almost everything in town is casual, with bar pizza and takeout counters at the cheaper end and the clubhouse kitchens in the middle. An occasion dinner usually means leaving, either about 10 minutes north to Middleborough or 25 minutes south to New Bedford.
Lakeville Center: The Bedford Street Taproom
Lakeville Center, where Route 18 (Bedford Street) meets Route 105 (Main Street), holds Town Hall, the library and the town’s brewery, with Elliot Farm’s stand a short drive up Main Street for corn, baked goods and dairy in season.
Red Hand Brewing Co. at 348 Bedford Street, right next to Town Hall, is a family-owned taproom with house-brewed beers, a long craft tap list, handcrafted cocktails and a serious whiskey program. Food comes from the Travelers On Tour truck, and the patio looks out over the lake. Fire pits, trivia, bingo, line dancing and open mic nights make it the closest thing the town has to a night out. It’s open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2 to 9 p.m., Friday from noon to 10 p.m., Saturday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., and it’s closed Tuesday (Red Hand Brewing). Small food and drink businesses rarely have back-of-house room for packaging, seasonal decor and spare equipment, which is where climate-controlled storage in Lakeville comes in.
North Lakeville: Brick Oven Pizza on Route 105
Baldie’s Craft Pizzeria at 40 Main Street sits on Route 105 in north Lakeville near Lakeville station, about 2 miles northeast of Town Hall, and it’s the room most people mean when they ask where to eat in Lakeville. Pizzas come out of a wood-fired brick oven, from a plain Margherita to Buffalo chicken and Nashville hot chicken pies, and the menu also runs to New England clam chowder, pork belly tacos, smash burgers and subs. A U-shaped bar pours a rotating draft beer selection. It’s open 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, and it takes reservations, which are worth making on a Friday or Saturday.
Harding Street: The Route 44 Plaza
Harding Street is Route 44 at Lakeville’s northern tip, by the Middleborough line, and its small plaza holds three places to eat in a row.
Saga Sushi at 9 Harding Street bills itself as "Asian Fusion, Sushi, Lounge," with dine-in tables, online ordering and reservations (Saga). It’s the pick in town for a quick maki order or a sit-down sushi dinner.
Mike and Lenny’s Bar Pizza at 13 Harding Street is a newer Lakeville location of a South Shore bar pizza brand that started as a food truck (Mike and Lenny’s). Hours are limited, posted as midday to early evening Tuesday through Sunday, so call ahead instead of arriving hungry.
JK Cafe at 12 Harding Street took over the former Sunshine Cafe and is the plaza’s breakfast counter, opening at 7 a.m. every day. Our Lakeville brunch guide covers the morning options properly.
County Street and Rhode Island Road: Bar Pizza and a Country Club Table
County Street, in the south and west of town, holds the two most local rooms in Lakeville, and LeBaron Hills on Rhode Island Road holds the most polished one.
JMAC’s On The Pond at 217 County Street serves bar-style pizza, smashburgers, wings and weekly specials, and the regulars order the linguica pizza. It sits inside the Eagles building, which throws off first-timers hunting for a standalone restaurant. It’s closed Monday through Wednesday, open Thursday from 4:30 to 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday from noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. Lakeville’s Long Pond is known for largemouth bass fishing (Buzzards Bay Coalition), and boat storage in Lakeville keeps a bass boat out of the driveway between trips.
Fat Cousins Pizza at 166 County Street is a counter-service kitchen doing pizza, calzones and subs. The detail worth knowing is the address it shares: Broken Tee Virtual Golf Club next door has simulator bays and no kitchen of its own, and it points players to Fat Cousins for pizza, sandwiches and appetizers (Broken Tee), so a January afternoon round doesn’t have to end for dinner.
LeBaron Hills Country Club at 183 Rhode Island Road serves members and the public at the Sunset Grille and on a terrace with a fire pit, while the Grille Room stays members only. An executive chef’s menu runs from elevated dishes to classic pub fare and kid-friendly favorites, with beer, wine and signature cocktails (LeBaron Hills). It’s closed Monday, open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. Nothing from the road tells you it’s open to anyone.
Clear Pond Road, Leonard Street and Heritage Hill: The Clubhouse Tables
Three more Lakeville kitchens sit behind pro shops, and all three welcome people who’ve never held a club.
Lakeville Country Club at 44 Clear Pond Road puts a full-service bar and restaurant beside the water, with a sunset deck, a jukebox, Keno and several TVs (Lakeville Country Club). Kitchen hours are the catch: 4 to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, and 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, so there’s no lunch here on a Saturday. The pavilion holds up to 200 and the indoor restaurant 75, making it a natural local function space, and a 10×10 storage unit is a practical home for the tables, linens and seasonal decor that come with hosting at that scale.
Poquoy Brook Pub at 20 Leonard Street is the friendliest of the golf bars to a walk-in: a granite-topped bar seating 26, seven TVs, 30 beers on tap and live music every Saturday from around 7 p.m. (Poquoy Brook Pub). It’s open to everyone daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The Back Nine Pub at Heritage Hill Golf Course, 17 Heritage Hill Drive, is open to the public daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. for lunch, dinner and a full drink menu (Heritage Hill). The course was formerly The Back Nine Club, so older listings still carry the old name. For a casual meal without a tee time, it’s an easy door to walk through, and the Lakeville nightlife guide covers the later end of the evening.
Middleborough, About 10 Minutes North
Middleborough center is the nearest thing to a downtown within reach, and it’s where you go for an occasion dinner, a late kitchen or a 5:30 a.m. breakfast. It’s also walkable once you park, which nothing in Lakeville is, and the new Middleborough station opened there on March 24, 2025 (Wikipedia).
The Charred Oak Tavern at 57 Center Street is the area’s steak and seafood room, with a whiskey bar and a craft cocktail, wine and beer list (The Charred Oak Tavern). It’s closed Monday and Tuesday, open 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. Reservations and walk-ins are both welcome, but book for a Saturday.
Fireside Grille at 30 Bedford Street is a longtime local name for American cooking: prime rib au jus, steak tips, braised short ribs and prime rib egg rolls to start. The Cranberry Country Chamber of Commerce named it Business of the Year in 2022, and it’s known for its Sunday brunch, so reserve.
The Hideaway at 9 Station Street is a bar and kitchen running hand-cut steaks, burgers, seafood, pasta and a pizza bar, and it’s Baldie’s sister restaurant. It’s closed Monday, open until 10 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday and until 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. That 11 p.m. close is late for this area, making it one of the few answers to where you go after 10 p.m.
Dave’s Diner at 390 West Grove Street opens at 5:30 a.m. daily and serves breakfast all day (Dave’s Diner). That early open makes it the reliable pre-drive breakfast around here. It closes at 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
East Freetown and the New Bedford Waterfront: Worth the Longer Drive
Two rooms south of town earn the extra mileage, one for live music and the other for seafood off the boats.
The Profile Tavern at 2 Crossroads Drive shows up constantly in Lakeville searches, but it’s about 12 minutes south in East Freetown. It’s open 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday and to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with live music Thursday and Saturday and musical bingo and trivia on Monday (The Profile Tavern). It takes reservations, which are worth using on a music night.
The Black Whale at 104 Co-op Wharf, Pier 3, on the New Bedford waterfront, about 25 minutes south, is the seafood trip. Its stated mission is fresh, bold food that celebrates New Bedford’s fishermen and their catch (The Black Whale), and it sits on the working waterfront, which makes it a natural lunch on a New Bedford day. It takes reservations through OpenTable, so book ahead in summer, and see our guide to day trips from Lakeville for the rest of that direction.
Hours, Reservations and What Closes on Monday
Monday is a thin day here, and it catches people out. LeBaron Hills and The Hideaway close Monday, The Charred Oak Tavern closes Monday and Tuesday, and JMAC’s On The Pond doesn’t open until Thursday. Red Hand Brewing is the one that closes Tuesday instead. For a Monday dinner in town, Baldie’s, Red Hand, Lakeville Country Club’s evening kitchen, Poquoy Brook Pub and The Back Nine Pub are the dependable choices.
Kitchens close early by city standards. Most of these rooms stop serving between 8 and 10 p.m., Baldie’s runs to 10:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and The Hideaway at 11 p.m. is about as late as it gets nearby. Plan an 8 p.m. sit-down rather than a 9 p.m. one, and phone ahead in January and February, when hours can change with the weather.
Reservations are worth making at Baldie’s, The Charred Oak Tavern, Fireside Grille, The Profile Tavern and The Black Whale. Hours here were checked in September 2026 and shift with the season, so a call beats a wasted trip.
Frequently Asked Questions
What restaurants are in Lakeville, MA?
Inside Lakeville’s town lines you’ll find Red Hand Brewing in Lakeville Center, Baldie’s Craft Pizzeria on Main Street in north Lakeville, Saga Sushi, Mike and Lenny’s Bar Pizza and JK Cafe on Harding Street, JMAC’s On The Pond and Fat Cousins Pizza on County Street, and four golf clubhouse kitchens: Lakeville Country Club, LeBaron Hills’ Sunset Grille, Poquoy Brook Pub and The Back Nine Pub at Heritage Hill.
What are some highly rated Lakeville restaurants?
Baldie’s Craft Pizzeria draws the most consistent local praise, for wood-fired pizza and a rotating craft draft list in one room. JMAC’s On The Pond is the local pick for bar pizza, and LeBaron Hills has the most polished menu in town. Just outside Lakeville, The Charred Oak Tavern and Fireside Grille in Middleborough are the two names residents reach for on a bigger night.
What’s on the menu at Baldie’s Craft Pizzeria?
Baldie’s builds its menu around pizza from a wood-fired brick oven, from a plain Margherita to Buffalo chicken and Nashville hot chicken pies. The kitchen also turns out New England clam chowder, pork belly tacos, smash burgers and subs, and the bar pours a rotating selection of draft beer.
Are there any restaurants on the water in Lakeville?
Lakeville Country Club on Clear Pond Road is the town’s water-view table, with a sunset deck over the water and a full bar. Red Hand Brewing’s patio on Bedford Street also looks out over the lake. For an ocean view rather than a pond, drive about 25 minutes to The Black Whale on the New Bedford waterfront.
What restaurants are worth the drive to Middleborough?
Four earn the 10-minute drive: The Charred Oak Tavern for steak, seafood and whiskey, Fireside Grille for prime rib and a well-known Sunday brunch, The Hideaway for a late kitchen that runs to 11 p.m. on weekends, and Dave’s Diner for a 5:30 a.m. breakfast. Middleborough center is also the one walkable cluster near Lakeville.
A Note on Space, for Anyone Who Cooks or Hosts Here
Eating your way through this list has nothing to do with storage, but living in a town where every errand is a drive often does. Value Store It in Lakeville rents month-to-month with no long-term contract, and the size range covers most of what a household or a small food business runs out of room for. A 5×5 locker, about the size of a small closet, takes holiday dishes and case goods. A 10×5 unit or a 5×10 unit holds the contents of one room, and a 5×15 unit stretches that to the contents of two rooms. Bigger jobs move up through the 10×15 unit, which fits a two-bedroom apartment, and the 10×20 unit, which holds a three-bedroom home, to the 10×30 unit, sized for a four-bedroom home. Car storage handles the second vehicle with nowhere to sit through a New England winter, and the location page carries that facility’s own hours and contact details. For the rest of the weekend, start with things to do in Lakeville.
