1. Captain Kidd Bar Andwaterfront Dining Room
City: Woods Hole, MA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (508) 548-8563
Address: 77 Water St.
Description: There’s the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, then there’s the other Woods Hole institution, the Captain Kidd, which opened shortly after Prohibition ended. You can settle down at the bar, in a lounge complete with a fireplace, in the waterfront dining room, or outside on the patio or dock overlooking Eel Pond. The menu features fresh seafood, including scrod, tuna, and lobster brought in by local fishermen. The Kidd serves lunch and dinner daily year-round.
2. Fishmonger’S Cafe
City: Woods Hole, MA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (508) 540-5376
Address: 56 Water St.
Description: Where else besides Woods Hole could you enjoy a good ol’ bowl of clam chowder beside a working drawbridge? Watching the little bridge being raised and lowered for boat traffic passing into Eel Pond within a few feet of the restaurant is a fascinating pastime at Fishmonger’s. In fact, all of Woods Hole’s remarkable sights, marine and otherwise, are part of the view from this restaurant’s windows. The casual gourmet menu focuses on natural foods, grains, fresh fish, and homemade soups, plus a number of vegetarian entrees—all excellent—as well as daily specials. The Fishmonger serves lunch and dinner daily and breakfast on the weekends during the season. Off-season breakfast is served daily.
3. The Landfall
City: Woods Hole, MA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (508) 548-1758
Address: 2 Luscombe Ave.
Description: At the Landfall you can enjoy fresh seafood while you watch the sailboats and fishing vessels come and go in the harbor and the ferries pulling into their Woods Hole berth only a few hundred feet away. The restaurant’s nautical decor complements its surroundings, and it makes sense to order fresh seafood here, especially the clam chowder, scallops, lobster, or seafood platter. The homemade apple crisp is a great way to round off your meal. It is open for lunch and dinner daily from Apr through Oct.
4. Pie In The Sky
City: Woods Hole, MA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (508) 540-5475
Address: 10 Water St.
Description: When the scientists from Woods Hole need coffee, a sandwich, or a scone—or just a place to chat or surf the Internet—they come here. Order house-blend roast coffee and a fresh-from-the-oven popover. They also do more meal-sized fare; a breakfast sandwich of egg and linguica and the turkey, bacon, and avocado wrap is a great lunch, especially in combination with a soup, coffee, and cookie of your choice.
5. Quick’S Hole
City: Woods Hole, MA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (508) 495-0792
Address: 6 Luscombe Ave.
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Description: This spiffed-up fish shack is casual but with more interesting than usual offerings, such as a yellowfin tuna BLT and a blackened fish sandwich. For Mexican food fans there is instant gratification with better than average Mexican street food specialties, such as fish tacos and slow-roasted-pork quesadillas. The fresh lobster tacos are a perfect blend of Baja and Cape Cod, and when you wash them down with a glass of house-made sangria, you’re well on your way (happily) to the ferry. Open seasonally, May through Oct.