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Cape Cod Coffee at Mashpee Commons is the local roaster's full-service cafe on Market Street in Mashpee, pouring its own freshly roasted coffee alongside a breakfast and lunch kitchen and a cocktail menu. The company sources beans from 12 countries, exclusively Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance certified and grown without pesticides, and roasts single origins, blends, flavored coffees and Swiss Water decaf. By night, Thursday through Saturday, the same space becomes 53 Chophouse, a steakhouse. The cafe is open daily 6:30 AM to 4 PM, with the kitchen serving 7 AM to 2 PM. Seating is first come, first served, and leashed dogs are welcome outdoors. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed Cape Cod Coffee in person.

Cape Cod Coffee's Chatham Perk is a year-round neighborhood café on Orleans Road in Chatham. It is one of several cafés run by Cape Cod Coffee, which roasts its coffee at its own roastery in Mashpee. The company sources beans from 12 countries. All of them are Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance certified and grown without pesticides, and they become single origins, house blends, flavored coffees, decaf, and cold brew. Owners Pam and Jan Aggerbeck run the business, and each café makes its own food fresh to order. In summer the company also runs a seasonal café on Chatham's Main Street. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed Chatham Perk in person.

Cape Cod Coffee's Wareham Crossing café is at 2421 Cranberry Highway in Wareham, one of the roaster's cafés along with Route 130, Mashpee Commons and Chatham Perk on Main Street. Cape Cod Coffee sources beans from 12 countries, all Fair Trade and Rainforest Alliance certified, and tailors each roast, from single origins and house blends to Swiss Water decaf. At Wareham the kitchen serves breakfast and lunch daily and dinner Thursday through Saturday, with a coffee and cocktail menu, flights and a kids menu. Weekly events include a Friday kids pizza party, music bingo and trivia nights. The café is open daily, 8am to 4pm. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed Cape Cod Coffee in person.

Cupcake Charlie's at Wareham Crossing is a gourmet cupcake shop and bakery that goes well beyond the basics — fresh-baked cupcakes, custom cakes, cake pops, whoopie pies, trifles, and premium soft-serve ice cream. With rotating flavors and creative combinations, it's a sweet stop that draws loyal fans from across the South Shore and Upper Cape. Whether you need a dozen for a party or just one for yourself, they deliver.

Ranked #1 on the Lower Cape for hand-cut donuts, this Eastham bakery and coffee shop fires up the ovens at 6am daily, turning out 18 flavors of from-scratch donuts plus homemade muffins, stuffed croissants, cupcakes, biscotti, fresh bagels and bread. Pair a still-warm pastry with a gourmet latte, cappuccino, chai or fresh-brewed iced coffee. A Route 6 morning ritual where breakfast on Cape Cod starts sweet and unmistakably handmade.