o find the best bar on the Vineyard, you have to get away from the waterfront and the Circuit Avenue strip and find your way up a street with no numbers to an odd-looking building filled with happy drinkers and musicians walking on a carpet of peanut shells. The Offshore Ale House, known by locals as "the peanut bar," brews its own beer, makes its own exceptional pizza, and features local and off-island musicians most nights. The high-ceilinged building may look like an island antique, but that's because it was made of old pieces of other boats and barns. If you're not into beer, there's a great selection of wine and an open kitchen that turns out local oysters, seafood gumbo, steaks, burgers, and the signature wood-fired, brick-oven, thin-crust pizza. Strike up a conversation with the natives over the one with cheese, tomato, and truffle oil.