Outer Cape Recs

[Hey Adrien!]

Lived in Truro for 12 years. You can’t go wrong with any of these recommendations. For some of the restaurant recommedations timing is everything . For example Macs Shack in August fugetaboutit as we would say in Jersey unless you have a rezzy. Try Blackfish in Truro try the tuna bolognese. I am still trying to dissect the recipe. Get a beach sticker and swim in the kettle ponds. Great Pond in Truro was my fav. The RedInn in Ptown is great place for drinks and dinner. The Mews in the East End in Ptown and Mac’s in Ptown is also good and easier than to get into than Mac’s Shack. Harbor Stage Theatre great productions over the years. Oh and get the Sharkitivity app before you swim in the ocean!!!

We hit up Mac's On the Pier last night in between thunderstorms. Excellent meal of Welfleet oysters and fish and chips, which I really liked their chickpea breading and their portions were surprisingly huge.

 

[Fishy]

As someone who has been visiting the Squire for decades, it's really started to go downhill under the new ownership.
I'll probably give them one more chance this summer, but if my visit is as bad as last year, it won't be on my list anymore.

Impudent Oyster is fantastic. It's also hard to beat a sunset cocktail at Chatham Bars Inn, possibly followed by (a very expensive but very good) dinner.

Beachcomber should be a Cape bucket list item.

The Donut Hole in Orleans = great breakfast

Squire is good for a beer. Aplaya, down the street behind Lilly Pultzer, is better - get a cocktail and some Filipino appetizers at the Tiki bar.

Skip the Beachcomber. It’s absolutely middling and a pain in the ass to get deal with. Go to Brax Landing instead and eat outside overlooking the harbor.

Impudent Oyster…killer recommendation. Tiny, cramped, crowded…love it anyway. Devils on horseback app is one of my favorite things anywhere.

For those who frequent Cape Cod, this story is a bit of a game changer. I had been seeing stories from a guy on the Cape who documents seals and sharks that seal activity has picked up on Nantucket Sound, Chatham, Harwich, Yarmouth. But this is the Buzzard's Bay side of Wood's Hole. I checked with AWSC two years ago and they confirmed the Buzzard's Bay receiver had never had a ping from a tagged White Shark. Doesn't mean there aren't any of course.

Shark experts confirm great white shark sighting off Woods Hole

Margaret Bowles and Maddie Cronin were paddleboarding and taking photos off of Stoney Beach on the Fourth of July when Bowles noticed an alarming dorsal fin. It's the first confirmed sighting of a great white shark off of Woods Hole in more than 20 years.

www.wbur.org

Stay home, candyass.

We ended up loving Nauset Beach so much that we ended up bringing take out breakfast and dinner there today.

We picked up coffees and breakfast from Snowy Owl in Brewster and loved it. Had happy hour buck a shuck oysters and shrimp at Caroline’s in Eastham before bringing some pizza back to the beach and then caught the end of the Orleans Firebirds game for my first Cape Cod League game.

Overall, the Outer Cape has been my favorite part of the Cape so far. More local and low-key than other parts I’ve been to.

Snowy Owl is great. (I think they have a small kiosk in Chatham, too?) Chocolate Sparrow in Orleans, also great.

Yankee Magazine July/August 2024

Page 67 mentions Red Barn Pizza in Eastham -- I worked there one summer!

I don't recall being impressed with their pizza, but that was quite a while ago; it may have improved since then. What I do remember is working at what they called the Ice Cream Silo, a building adjacent to the "barn." That was fun. I loved giving the little kids bigger cones than what they asked for, and seeing them light up with big smiles!

Their pizza is crap. Now, I know who to blame.

Pizza Shark is about as good as it gets in terms of pizza on the Cape.

If anyone needs any other correct opinions about the Cape, I will be here for you.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Squire is good for a beer. Aplaya, down the street behind Lilly Pultzer, is better - get a cocktail and some Filipino appetizers at the Tiki bar.

Skip the Beachcomber. It’s absolutely middling and a pain in the ass to get deal with. Go to Brax Landing instead and eat outside overlooking the harbor.

Impudent Oyster…killer recommendation. Tiny, cramped, crowded…love it anyway. Devils on horseback app is one of my favorite things anywhere.


Stay home, candyass.



Snowy Owl is great. (I think they have a small kiosk in Chatham, too?) Chocolate Sparrow in Orleans, also great.



Their pizza is crap. Now, I know who to blame.

Pizza Shark is about as good as it gets in terms of pizza on the Cape.

If anyone needs any other correct opinions about the Cape, I will be here for you.

I was swimming in Buzzards Bay last weekend. I'm not staying home.

 

[Deepster]

Skip the Beachcomber. It’s absolutely middling and a pain in the ass to get deal with.

I'll add in, I do agree with this statement....if you choose the wrong time to go.

I pick a Tues or Wed every year, cut out of sitting on the beach around 2 and head there for a couple just before dinner. You can always get a bar seat, drinks are strong and the oysters are delicious.

Go on a Friday night and you're rearends and elbows and fighting to get a drink.

 

[UConnDad]

I'll add in, I do agree with this statement....if you choose the wrong time to go.

I pick a Tues or Wed every year, cut out of sitting on the beach around 2 and head there for a couple just before dinner. You can always get a bar seat, drinks are strong and the oysters are delicious.

Go on a Friday night and you're rearends and elbows and fighting to get a drink.

Next Tuesday or Wednesday it is for me then!