Amari Bar and Restaurant
674 Route 6A, East Sandwich
508-375-0011
www.amarirestaurant.com
Open year-round, serving dinner nightly plus lunch on Saturday and Sunday
$$-$$$ Tuscan and Italian cuisine in a warm, contemporary atmosphere with an open kitchen, stone fireplace, lively bar and outdoor terrace. Amari’s signature first dishes are Antipasto Misto and Cal-Amari (fried squid tossed with hot peppers, diced tomatoes, balsamic vinegar and a roasted garlic sauce). Classic Italian preparations – parmigiana, scampi, picatta, marsala, bonsera – may be ordered with chicken, veal, shrimp or salmon. Also serving wood-fired pizzas, grilled meat dishes, pastas and nightly specials.

Aqua Grille
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14 Gallo Road, Sandwich
508-888-8889
www.aquagrille.com
Open end of April through end of October, serving lunch and dinner
$$ Aqua Grille offers quality dining with a global flair in a casual atmosphere. The bistro-style restaurant features Cape Cod favorites such as native fish and lobster, as well European- and Asian-influenced fare. Executive chef Gert Rausch brings 28 years of culinary experience.
Credit Cards Accepted / Reservations Accepted / Handicapped Accessible / Water View

Ay Caramba! Cafe
137 Teaticket Highway, East Falmouth
508-540-0221
www.aycarambacafe.com
Open year-round, serving lunch and
dinner
$-$$ A new, second location in Falmouth Mall for this Mexican eatery, which also has a bustling Harwich location. This Ay Caramba! is a bit more posh than the original, but serves the same authentic Mexican fare, featuring scratch-made dishes such as carne asada, enchiladas, grilled fish tacos, Tiger Shrimp Diablo and creative nightly specials. A full bar is offered, including frosty margaritas made from a wide selection of premium tequilas.

The Bee-Hive Tavern
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406 Route 6A
East Sandwich
508-833-1184
Open daily year-round; serving lunch and
dinner, plus breakfast on Sunday
$-$$$$ Nightly specials, with local seafood paired with flavor-enhancing fresh vinaigrettes, tapenades & compound butters. There’s also traditional seafood, choice meats/chops, pastas, salads and sandwiches. This cozy New England style tavern is also all fresh-made at lunch and Sunday breakfast. The intimate bar features wines by the glass or bottle and
specialty cocktails.

Belfry Inne & Bistro
8 Jarves Street, Sandwich
508-888-8550
www.belfryinn.com
Open year-round, serving dinner
$$$$ Dinners at the Bistro feature a palatable pastiche of contemporary international cuisine. Menus change with the seasons, incorporating fresh local ingredients. The Belfry specializes in intimate dinners for two or elegant affairs for 120. The Bistro welcomes guests to linger over desserts and coffee.

Bleu
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10 Market Street
Mashpee Commons
508-539-7907
www.bleurestaurant.com
Open daily year-round, serving lunch and
dinner; Jazz brunch on Sundays
$$$-$$$$ Chef and owner Frederic Feufeu creates an oasis of French cuisine and culture at this stylish bistro. Classic bistro dishes such as cassoulet and steak au poivre are complemented by Feufeu’s imaginative, varied creations, including Lobster Salad “Mille Feuille” with Asparagus, Bamboo Steamed Vegetables with Peanut Sauce and Jasmine Rice Spring Roll and Roasted Rack of Lamb “Aux Herbes”.

Bobby Byrne’s Restaurant & Pub
Routes 28 & 151, Mashpee Commons
508-477-0600
Route 6A & Tupper Road, Sandwich
508-888-6088
Route 28 and Bearses Way, Hyannis
508-775-1425
www.bobbybyrnes.com
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$-$$ An eating, drinking and talking establishment since 1973. Hearty pub fare, homemade soups, signature appetizers, salads and generous entrées are offered in the cozy pub and comfortable dining room.

The British Beer Company
46 Route 6A, Sandwich
508-833-9590
263 Grand Avenue, Falmouth
508-540-9600
412 Main Street Hyannis,
508-771-1776
Open year-round, serving lunch and
dinner
$-$$ Cape Cod’s three BBC locations (see mid-Cape category) have charming, artful
interiors that evoke the feel of a real English pub, with many beers from the United Kingdom on tap. The eclectic menu has appetizers such as potato skins, quesadillas and crab cakes. Entrées include fish and chips, bangers and mash, sheperd’s pie, plus burgers, pizza and regional American fare.
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Café Villaggio
188 Main Street, Falmouth
508-540-6400
www.cafevillaggio.com
Open daily year-round, serving lunch and
dinner
$$-$$$ The third generation of a Falmouth culinary family operates this Main Street spot for fine Italian cuisine. Exceptional pasta, chicken, veal, steaks and seafood entrées. The bar area is dressed up with beautiful cherry wood and granite, and offers 10-ounce martini creations and an extensive fine wine list. Live entertainment before and after dinner on the weekends.
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The Captain Kidd
77 Water Street, Woods Hole
508-548-8563
www.thecaptainkidd.com
Bar open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
Waterfront dining room open late June through Labor Day, serving dinner
$$-$$$ A friendly pub with an antique bar, massive fireplace and nautical collectibles, the Captain Kidd is a favorite destination for employees of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Marine Biological Laboratory. The deck sits over Eel Pond harbor. The bar menu offers steaks, burgers, chicken, lobster, seafood and pizzas. The waterfront dining room is more formal, but also open to the sea breezes.

Capt. Scott’s
71 Tupper Road, Sandwich
508-888-1675
www.captainscotts.com
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$-$$ Owned and operated by the Gossios family for twenty years, this is a favorite destination for Sandwich villagers of all ages. Local seafood is served in many styles, with pasta specialities featuring sautéed seafood. Many entrées, such as Greek chicken with olives and feta, are given Mediterranean seasonings, all complemented by an affordable wine list. Burgers, soups and salads are served all day.

Chapoquoit Grill
410 Route 28A (West Falmouth Highway) Falmouth
508-540-7794
Open daily year-round, serving dinner
$$-$$$ Popular with locals and nearly always crowded in the summer, Chapoquoit Grille cooks up imaginative cuisine infused with Italian and Caribbean flavors. Enjoy unique appetizers at the bar and a pond view.

The Chart Room
1 Shipyard Lane, Cataumet
508-563-5350
Open mid-May to mid-October, serving lunch and dinner
$$$ The Chart Room’s mile-high lobster rolls on Portuguese bread are legendary. Entrées include lobster, steamers, fish, burgers, steaks and nightly specials. The restaurant is on barge at a busy marina, with spectacular sunsets over Buzzards Bay. Cocktails are served on an outdoor patio at the water’s edge.

Coonamessett Inn
311 Gifford Street, Falmouth
508-548-2300
www.capecodrestaurants.org/coonamessett
Open year-round, serving lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch
$$$$ A grand traditional inn set on Jones Pond in the heart of Falmouth, Coonamessett Inn offers white-tablecloth service in the main dining room. Rack of lamb, shrimp scampi and lobster are prepared in New England style with an updated, creative flourish. Eli’s Lounge ($$), the inn’s rustic tavern, offers scratch-made Yankee fare, such as pot roast and chicken pot pie.

Dan’l Webster Inn
149 Main Street, Sandwich
508-888-3622
www.danlwebsterinn.com
Open year-round, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner; Sunday brunch served in off-season
$$$ An award-winning restaurant with recognition, including Distinguished Restaurants Award since 1995 and Wine Spectator’s “Best of” Award of Excellence. Featuring creative American cuisine served in the conservatory or the other elegantly appointed dining rooms. The Tavern at the Inn offers a casual, cozy dining atmosphere.

Emporio Brazilian Cuisine and Bar
339 Main Street (Route 28), East Falmouth
508-495-3676
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$$-$$$ Brazilian dining in a colorful setting, with contemporary Brazilian music piped in to set the mood. Order from the basic menu, opt to visit the large buffet or dine on traditional churrasco, where servers come to your table to carve succulent roasted meats from big skewers right onto your plate.

Firefly Woodfire Grill & Bar
271 Main Street, Falmouth
508-548-7953
www.fireflywoodfiregrill.com
Open daily year-round, serving lunch and
dinner
$$-$$$ All types of contemporary American and European dishes are wood-fired at this lively restaurant, including charred Caesar salad, seafood, rib-eye steak, homemade meatloaf and traditional and gourmet pizzas. An open kitchen with beach stone oven and large, wraparound bar are centerpieces of the room. Wide selection of wines, cocktails and microbrews available.

The Flying Bridge
220 Scranton Avenue, Falmouth
508-548-2700
www.capecodrestaurants.org/flyingbridge/index.shtml
Open mid-April to mid-October, serving lunch and dinner
$-$$$ All the action on busy Falmouth Harbor can be enjoyed from the expansive decks and lively cocktail bar here, which are always crowded with boaters and other diners during summer. Countless buckets of steamers are served along with fish and seafood cooked many ways, plus steaks, burgers, lobster rolls and a children’s menu. The second floor can be reserved for weddings and other private events.

Hemisphere
98 Town Neck Road, Sandwich
508-888-6166
www.hemispherecapecod.com
Open early April to December, serving lunch and dinner
$$ Formerly known as Horizon’s on the Bay, this spot was given a total makeover by now owners in 2006. The sweeping view across Cape Cod Bay is spectacular. The menu has appetizers, burgers, pastas and seafood entrées cooked in a variety of styles. If your timing is right, you can watch as big ships enter Cape Cod Canal.

Iriecorna Jamaican Restaurant
420 East Falmouth Highway (Route 28),
East Falmouth
508-457-7774
Open daily year-round, serving lunch and
dinner
$$ Falmouth’s cool quotient bumps up a notch with Iriecorna, a funky but elegant place with
Jamaican cooks at the stove and color-splashed Jamaican and African art hanging on ocher walls. Favorite dishes include Red Pea and Coconut Soup and Jerk Chicken, and the menu also offers exotic options such as curried goat and braised oxtail.

La Cucina Sul Mare
237 Main Street, Falmouth
508-548-5600
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner (no lunch on Monday)
$$$ A popular, often-crowded Northern Italian restaurant, La Cucina Sul Mare creates ambience with painted murals, a tin ceiling and windows overlooking Falmouth’s bustling Main Street. Chef/owner Mark Ciflone’s specialties include osso buco, lobster fra diavlo, zuppa de pesce and wood-grilled meats and seafood. The pasta is fresh and the desserts are homemade. Brunch served on Sunday.

Laureen’s
170 Main Street, Falmouth
508-540-9104
www.laureensrestaurant.com
Open daily year-round, serving breakfast,
lunch and dinner
$$-$$$ A restaurant, caterer and epicurean grocery combined that specializes in gourmet Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine. The doors open at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast with a variety of teas, coffees and pastries; lunch ($) offers all-natural beverages with soups, salads and sandwiches; and dinner features several creative sautés, including medallions of beef in molasses and black pepper-wild mushroom-bacon compote.

Molly’s Tea Room
227 Main Street, Falmouth
508-457-1666
www.mollystearoom.com
Open year-round, serving breakfast and lunch.
$$ For that special lunch there’s no place better to meet than Molly’s Tea Room, a favorite gathering place for locals and visitors alike. The tea selection is unparalleled. Lunch selections include Curried Chicken Salad, Shrimp & Crabmeat Salad, Reuben sandwiches, and even PB & Js (for kids of all ages!), all served in an elegant atmosphere with white tablecloths. And don’t forget to leave room for dessert! Beer and wine selections available.

The Nimrod Restaurant
100 Dillingham Avenue, Falmouth
508-540-4132
www.thenimrod.com
Open year-round, serving lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch
$$$ The Nimrod is as known for its jazz lounge, which features live music nightly, as for its upscale restaurant. Popular dishes include roasted duck l’orange, prime rib served with freshly baked popovers, and bouillabaisse. Enclosed porch dining and a screened-in cabana bar in season.

Oysters Too
876 East Falmouth Highway, (Route 28)
East Falmouth
508-548-9191
www.oysterstoo.com
Open year-round, serving dinner
$$$ Lots of fresh fish and lobster – and oysters, too – are served in this family-friendly restaurant with a warm, inviting dining room and cocktail lounge, both with fireplaces. Customer favorites include chicken Oscar, topped with lobster and Béarnaise sauce, and the seafood sampler, baked in white wine and butter. Pasta entrées, steaks and lamb chops are also served. Piano music on weekends.

Peking Palace
452 Main Street, Falmouth
508-540-8204
Open year round, serving lunch and dinner
$$ Bustling every night, this favorite Falmouth destination for Asian food was rebuilt from the ground up in 2004. The bright, new contemporary interior has an intriguing aquarium. The menu offers ambitious, upscale Chinese and Thai cookery including Phad Thai, chicken and shrimp stuffed eggplant, Shanghai boneless duck and mango chicken. Complete sushi menu offered at the table or at the lively sushi bar.

Pi Pizza Bistro
75 Davis Straights, Falmouth
508-495-5553
www.pipizzabistro.com
Open daily year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$$ A lively bistro specializing in gourmet brick-oven pizzas, such as Fig and Prosciutto with a rosemary crust and gorgonzola, and Mush-zoom, with four types of mushrooms, leeks and fresh mozzarella. Innovative bistro fare, such as butternut-squash ravioli, big sandwiches, a full bar and nearly 75 different beers are also served.
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The Quarterdeck
164 Main Street, Falmouth
508-548-9900
Open daily year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$$-$$$ Walking into the Quarterdeck is like finding yourself beneath the deck of a fisherman’s ship. The nautical décor complements a menu celebrating seafood: baked stuffed or boiled lobster, Shrimp and Scallop Scampi, mussel, oyster and calamari appetizers and their “famous” Lobster Salad on Portuguese bread. Steaks and pasta dishes are also available. Wine tastings are regularly held.
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RöoBar
285 Main Street, Falmouth
508-548-8600
www.theRooBar.com
Open May through December, serving dinner nightly and lunch some days (call for schedule)
$$$ This is a cozy RöoBar location, with tables packed in close. Cocktail bar windows open onto Main Street, weather permitting. Award-winning martini menu and extensive wine list. Banana-crusted halibut and Kona coffee-crusted pork tenderloin are favorite entrées. International pizza menu; a tapas menu served at the bar. The restaurant caters to the Falmouth area through 285 Main Catering. The wild, eclectic interior is energizing.nØH

RöoBar
10 Cordage Park Circle, Plymouth
508-746-4300
www.theRooBar.com
Open year-round, serving dinner
$$-$$$$ RooBar’s newest location in Plymouth melds coastal New England charm with urban extravagance. Residing in what was formerly a rope factory, the 150-seat restaurant features floor-to-ceiling windows, 18-foot ceilings, concrete floors, a custom-made fieldstone chimney and a 30-foot bar. Chef Tim Miller prides himself on creating atypical dishes using traditional regional ingredients.

Sandwich Taverna
290 Route 130, Sandwich
508-888-2200
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$-$$$ Sizzling steaks, pork chops and specialty pizzas are on the menu of this recently renovated restaurant. The cathedral ceilings, exposed beams
and stone fireplace provide a comfortable atmosphere to enhance your casual dining experience. The renovations may be new, but the owners have a 17-year tradition of providing quality food and service in Sandwich.

Siena
38 Nathan Ellis Highway, Mashpee Commons
508-477-5929
www.siena.us
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$$$ Named for the northern Italian city where neighbors dine en masse in the streets at festival time, Siena’s goal is to bring such celebratory dining to busy Mashpee Commons shopping center. Bright, modern interior looks out to crowds of shoppers. Brick-oven pizzas, salads and pastas
utilize fresh, roasted vegetables. Specialties include butternut squash ravioli, Tuscan seafood stew, wood-grilled beef and pork tenderloin.

Soprano’s
681 Falmouth Road (Route 28), at Deer Crossing, Mashpee
508-477-7475
Open year-round, serving dinner
$$-$$$$ Just opened in summer 2005, a romantic spot with terra-cotta walls, black accent furnishings and sofas surrounding the cocktail lounge piano. Specialties include Shrimp or Lobster Jennifer, a sun-dried tomato cream sauce presentation, and Seafood Marinara with shrimp, shellfish and fried calamari in marinara sauce over buccatini. The huge veal chop is served with varying toppings, like wild mushroom-brandy cream sauce.

Stir-Crazy
570 MacArthur Boulevard, Bourne
508-564-6464
Open February through December, serving dinner Tuesday through Sunday plus lunch Friday
$-$$ Leave the beaches and lighthouses of the Cape behind for authentic Southeast Asian cuisine created by chef/owner Bopha Samms, who is from Cambodia. Many vegetarian and vegan options featuring fresh vegetables and homestyle cooking are offered, and the menu also has seafood and meat specialties. This well regarded, independent restaurant is not part of the Stir Crazy chain in the Midwest.

Sunset Grille at The Brookside Club
11 Brigadoon Road, Bourne
508-743-0705
www.thebrooksideclub.com
Open year-round, serving lunch and dinner
$$-$$$ Dubbed “an oasis off of MacArthur Boulevard,” Sunset Grille at The Brookside Club features classic American cuisine in an elegant setting. Signature entrées of chef Dan Martin include pan-seared scallops over lobster and asparagus risotto and Black Angus beef tenderloin with garlic mashed potatoes. Outdoor seating on the terrace overlooks the golf course with ocean views and stunning sunsets. Banquets and wedding receptions available.

Tomatoes Italian Grill and Bar
280 C Route 130, Heritage Park Plaza,
Sandwich
508-888-6008
Open daily year-round, serving dinner
$$-$$$ Traditional and creative Italian-style cuisine, with signature dishes including Hazelnut-Crusted Salmon, Homemade Lobster Ravioli, Grilled Fillet of Beef Gorgonzola and Oven-Roasted Chicken Rustica. Raw bar, fine wines, full bar and takeout service are available. Recipient of Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, 2005. Exciting specialty martinis and vintage wines by the glass.