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Kung Fu Dumplings is a small dumpling spot at 8 Highland Road in North Truro. The most popular orders on its menu are the pork dumplings, the pork, scallion and ginger dumplings, and the chicken egg rolls. Service is takeout, and you can order online or call (508) 413-9032. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed Kung Fu Dumplings in person.
L'étoile is a chef-owned restaurant and bar in a restored whaling captain's house on North Water Street in downtown Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard. It is in its thirty-eighth year of business. The seasonal menu uses island ingredients, including produce and herbs from local farms and shellfish from the surrounding waters, alongside game birds, lamb, and other meats. You can eat in the casually elegant dining rooms or on the tented patio, which opens in late June. Bar l'étoile & Lounge pours specialty cocktails, including the "startini," and many wines by the glass. Reservations are made through Resy, and the restaurant cannot accommodate children under 6. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed L'étoile in person.
La Bamba is a family-owned Mexican restaurant in a brick building at 15 Sandwich Street in downtown Plymouth. The dining room is full of color, with orange and pink walls, papel picado strung across the windows, tiled arches, and big studded-leather booths. They serve family recipes with a margarita-forward bar, and also do online ordering, catering and private parties.
At 271 Cotuit Road in Sandwich, Lambert's Farm Market layers a full grocery, deli, butcher and bakery under one welcoming roof. Famous award-winning sandwiches, an on-premises butcher cutting quality meats, homemade decadent desserts, house cheese spreads, fresh produce and flowers, plus wine, champagne and prosecco for easy entertaining. Grab breakfast bagels or weekday lunch specials, order catering and party platters, then relax upstairs in the café. Sandwich's homemade-everything farm market.
Landfall sits right on Woods Hole Harbor on Luscombe Avenue, steps from the Steamship Authority ferry docks, serving fresh local seafood like lobster, swordfish, clams, scallops and seasonal fish. The dining room is built from wood taken from shipwrecks and boards from old buildings, with buoys, lobster pots and harpoons hung from the beams, and a seaside bar pours fresh-squeezed cocktails. Outside there's a brick patio under the big LANDFALL sign, Adirondack chairs against a buoy-covered fence, and a little clam shack window. The family-run restaurant has been here since 1946.
A Menemsha institution on Dutcher Dock, Larsen's is a classic retail fish market where you order fresh-off-the-boat seafood — littlenecks, oysters, lobster, and stuffed quahogs — right at the counter and eat it dockside as the sun sets over the harbor.
Scooping award-winning Richardson's Dairy ice cream, Best of Boston since the 1950s, Lazy Sundaes at Cataumet Crossing in Bourne stacks 55-plus flavors high: Maine Black Bear, Cape Cod Cranberry, Death by Chocolate, Coffee Heath. Add homemade waffle cones, thick shakes, sundaes, floats, and smoothies, plus vegan, sugar-free, sorbet, and Italian ice. A genuine Cape Cod ice cream destination near North Falmouth, built for warm-weather family fun.
Coffee people run this place. Leyden Street Coffee roasts its own beans, services espresso machines for cafes across the South Shore, and pulls cappuccinos in Plymouth that regulars drive out of their way for. Open weekday mornings on State Road, it pairs flavorful single-origin roasts with flaky chocolate croissants, hot breakfast sandwiches, and a laid-back, dog-friendly room. Grab a bag of fresh roast, a keychain, and the best cup in town.
On Falmouth's historic Main Street since 1994, Liam Maguire's pours the genuine article: a dozen-plus beers on tap, a deep wine list and seasonal drinks, with pub plates like shepherd's pie, fish and chips, nachos and potato skins. Nights here mean live music, trivia and good craic. This Falmouth Irish pub turns dinner into a session and strangers into regulars.
At 261 Main Street in Falmouth, the spot Cape Codders knew as Simply Divine has become Little Rossa, a pizzeria and espresso bar pairing New York-style pies with pulled shots. Slide into one of the bistro chairs under the blue-striped umbrellas out front for a slice and a cortado, or settle in for dinner served till 10 on weekends. For anyone who wants a real New York slice and a proper espresso on the same Main Street stroll.
Lobster & Chowder House is a white-brick seafood stop on Route 6 in South Wellfleet with a simple promise: "FAST. Fresh. Seafood." It's the Wellfleet offshoot of Provincetown's Lobster Pot, serving classic dishes inspired by the original restaurant and the Lobster Pot Express. Order at the window, online, or call ahead, then eat at the red picnic tables out front or on the covered patio, which has a full bar, string lights and live entertainment through the season. Chowders, lobster rolls, fried plates and tacos fill the menu board, and everything is available to go.
Follow the famous neon lobster sign on Commercial Street and you've found the Lobster Pot, a Provincetown tradition serving fresh seafood and sweeping harbor views to guests from around the world. Generations have come for warm lobster rolls with drawn butter, panko-parmesan baked cod, Portuguese specialties, and chowder done the Cape Cod way. With outstanding hospitality and a front-row seat to Provincetown Harbor, this Provincetown seafood restaurant earns its waterfront legend daily.
Set in a white farmhouse on Route 28A in Cataumet, this Bourne coffee house pours espresso and drip alongside bagels, breakfast sandwiches, acai bowls, smoothies, and lunch, with a dog-friendly patio and a carved wooden coffee-mug sculpture out front. The kitchen flags gluten-free options and leans toward fresh, made-to-order plates. For Upper Cape locals and cyclists who want a relaxed morning stop off the beaten path.
Run by Nemo and Lucky, two hospitality friends who make every guest feel at home, this Eastham coffee shop on Brackett Road pours European-style espresso from local Snowy Owl roasters. Pair it with fresh juices, smoothies, additive-free homemade lemonade, and made-with-love bagels, donuts, and sandwiches. Genuinely fresh, genuinely healthy, and genuinely friendly, Lucky's Corner Cafe is the warm Cape Cod neighborhood spot Eastham reaches for every morning.
MacPhail's Good Eats is an Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard restaurant — photographed and verified in person by Cape Cod Certified.
Mad Martha's is a homemade ice cream shop at 7 North Water Street in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard, one of three Mad Martha's scoop shops on the island, along with Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven. The flavors carry island ties, like Chilmark Coffee made with coffee from Chilmark Coffee Company and MV Sea Salt Caramel made with salt from Martha's Vineyard Sea Salt, and there are dairy-free choices too. The sundae list runs from the Original Mad Martha's Mud Pie to the Pigs Delight, which you order by saying "oink." Mad Martha's is also the official ice cream of the MV Sharks. The shop is open seasonally. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed Mad Martha's in person.
You'll taste island history at Mad Martha's Ice Cream, a Martha's Vineyard institution since 1971 — famously launched out of the back of an ambulance sedan by a farm girl who accidentally froze her cream supply and turned the mishap into something magical. All ice cream is made fresh daily in-house, and you'll taste the difference in every scoop. The Vineyard Haven location on Union Street is their newest home, offering the same beloved flavors that locals and summer visitors have lined up for across generations. Don't miss the mint chocolate chip, black raspberry, or the inspired Back Door Donuts apple fritter collab. With locations also in Oak Bluffs and Edgartown, Mad Martha's is the quintessential Vineyard summer ritual — the kind of cone you plan your afternoon around.
Maison Villatte is a French bakery and café on Falmouth's Main Street that has earned the top spot on TripAdvisor's Falmouth restaurant rankings. The pastries — croissants, tarts, and eclairs — are made the traditional French way, and the café also serves savory crepes, sandwiches, and excellent coffee.
Mama Matcha is Provincetown's wellness stop — "nourishing eats, signature smoothies & elevated lattes," all made to order from fresh, nutrient-rich ingredients. The menu runs breakfast all day, matcha drinks, superfood bowls, signature toasts and freshly squeezed juices. Your new healthy habit, as they put it, right on Commercial Street.
World-famous pizza, hot and ready, delivered every day, all day, all year round to Wareham and Onset. Marc Anthony's Pizzeria builds its reputation on classic favorites done right: bubbling cheese pies, hearty Italian-American lunch and dinner plates, and dependable takeout that neighbors set their clocks by. Casual, generous, and family-rooted alongside its sister kitchens, this is the go-to Wareham pizzeria for pizza delivery that never clocks out.
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