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Water Street Cafe

Eat & DrinkPlymouth

Feeding America's Hometown for over 26 years, Water Street Cafe sits along Plymouth's historic harbor serving honest, family-style breakfast and lunch from 7am to 3pm daily. Think classic American comfort, hearty morning plates, generous lunches, and the kind of unpretentious, neighborly welcome that keeps Plymouth regulars coming back decades on. Grab a table or order takeout, and taste why this Water Street mainstay has anchored the community since 1998.

Water Street Kitchen

Eat & DrinkWoods Hole

Water Street Kitchen is a dinner spot in a weathered shingle building right on the water at 56 Water Street in Woods Hole. Their menu changes with the seasons, made from scratch with global influences, and leans on locally and sustainably fished and farmed ingredients, with craft cocktails at the bar. Their own motto is "Food is Love," and the place aims to feel like the best home-cooked supper. Tables can be booked ahead.

Wellfleet Dairy Bar & Mini Golf

Eat & DrinkWellfleet

Wellfleet Dairy Bar & Mini Golf sits at the Wellfleet Drive-In: soft serve and hard-packed ice cream, hand-mixed shakes, Razzles and sundaes, plus a retro 18-hole mini golf course — look for the big blue whale. It's a seasonal spot, open June through Labor Day, and the perfect stop before a movie at the drive-in.

Whistle Stop Ice Cream

Coffee & BakeriesMashpee

The Mashpee Commons outpost of this Cape ice cream maker, scooping more than 40 house-made flavors plus frozen yogurt and sherbet from a corner shop with a working train track running through the decor. Beyond cones they build sundaes, floats, and custom ice cream cakes and pies, and a takeout window handles the line on busy nights. For families and Commons strollers chasing a classic Cape Cod scoop.

Will & Co Cafe

Eat & DrinkPlymouth

Morning runs on a clean clock at Will & Co Cafe, where breakfast and brunch in Plymouth means red flannel hash eggs Benedict, stacked pancakes, and coconut shrimp plated until the 1:30 last seating. Doors open at 7:30am for a neighborhood crowd that treats this storefront as a daytime ritual. Unfussy, generous, locally minded cooking that rewards the early and the unhurried alike.

Winslow's Tavern

Eat & DrinkWellfleet

Winslow's Tavern calls itself casually elegant dining, and it fits: a white house on Main Street with navy-blue dining rooms, wide pine floors and wine bottles racked along the ceiling beams. You can sit indoors, upstairs, or out on the brick patio under the trees and string lights. The menu out front leads with an oyster and raw bar, and on a fall evening the oysters came on ice with warm bread and mint-topped cocktails. Seating is first come, first served, and the tavern asks larger groups to reserve.

Yogie's

Eat & DrinkPlymouth

Yogie's Cafe is a casual stop in Plymouth, right across from Plymouth Rock, serving lobster rolls, finger food, ice cream and more. It's an easy place to grab a bite or a cone between strolls along the waterfront. Cape Cod Certified visited and photographed Yogie's in person.

Yolqueria

Eat & DrinkProvincetown

Yolqueria is Provincetown's "Award-Winning Brunch and Tacos" spot, where Chef Brandon Quesnell cooks the way his grandmother taught him on her Baja California ranch — fresh, local and unfussy. Mornings bring Mexican folded eggs with carnitas and fried chicken over French toast; from 11 to 2 the tacos arrive on homemade corn tortillas. Grab a seat on the breezy porch, daily 8 to 2.

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.

For nearly thirty years this family-run Orleans bakery and eatery has hand-cut its legendary oversized donuts fresh every morning, alongside homemade muffins, NY-style bagels, biscotti, and flavored coffee. Settle into the solarium for a full breakfast and lunch served daily from 6am, or grab and go. A Gold Best of Cape Cod breakfast winner, Hole In One pairs hearty plates and premium lattes with the Route 6A donuts locals drive miles for.

Leo's is the quintessential Buzzards Bay breakfast spot — a no-fuss diner on Main Street that draws a loyal crowd of locals, tradespeople, and canal fishermen starting well before sunrise. Expect classic diner staples done right: eggs any way you like, thick pancakes, and coffee that keeps coming. It's the kind of place where everybody seems to know everybody.

Anchoring the Manomet stretch of Route 3A since 2012, Marshland 3A serves honest home-cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner at prices that keep Plymouth regulars coming back. The menu roams from steak and burgers to fresh local seafood, while the summer deck and take-out window dish up fried seafood, fried dough, and ice cream. This easygoing Plymouth diner does reservations, take-out, and delivery.

A dependable neighborhood staple in East Falmouth on Route 28, Pizza 1 & Subs 2 has fed locals and summer visitors alike with straightforward, satisfying pizza and sub sandwiches. The menu is unpretentious and the portions are generous — exactly what you want from a casual Cape Cod pizzeria. A reliable go-to when you need a quick, affordable meal in the East Falmouth area.