Spent a nice (well, other than the Nor'easter) 3.5 days and 4 nights in Provincetown, staying where we normally stay.
View from outside our room, as the Nor'easter was leaving, and low tide.
And caught some sun the next evening, from the same vantage point.
Mr. Wondrich ( @Splificator ) on the bar with me, as I'm enjoying an old fashioned at Ladyslipper.
Ladyslipper. They built this bar out from scratch, in 2 months. 3 co-owners and a helper or two...I was impressed, as it's quite lovely inside.
We basically ate like townies on this trip, as our dinners were with townies (and one lunch was, as well).
The Mayflower - now closed for the season, and the place where my niece mentioned they cook the best lobster in town...
Quite good - comes with a side of your choice, and at $34, a relative bargain. Absolutely classic joint, with a good $8 Manhattan to boot!
Another dinner was at the Governor Bradford, sadly slated to close in a few months. Huge place, interesting menu, tasty stoner food. Good beer list, too.
Lunch one day was across the street from Ladyslipper, at a lunch only place...Vorelli's Restaurant. Significant Eater had a great lobster roll, and my lobster salad on a salad was super too.
Final dinner with the niece and husband - we took a drive out of town to The Wicked Oyster, in Wellfleet.
I can't tell you the last time I enjoyed such beautifully shucked, plump, shell-filling oysters..the sine qua non of oysters, if you will.
A couple of apps...
Fried local clam strips on the left, and Jonah crab salad on the right. These were fine.
For my main, I had the scallop dish, described thusly:
Seared Dayboat Scallops … 35 Carrot-Ginger Puree | Snap Peas | Parsley and Hazelnut Pesto
The scallops were great, snap peas replaced by roasted purple cauliflower, and just a bit too much going on on the plate, when you have such beautiful scallops. And seven of them! Most of the dishes appeared to suffer the same fate, just an ingredient or two too much.
One night, we did have all 3 desserts from Kelly Fields at Ladyslipper...
Top one is basically a warm apple galette, with caramel crunch drizzled atop. And underneath is a PB & J mousse, with a house-made Concord jam - more crunches atop. These were excellent, and go well with the Amaro treats on offer (I had a few Parker Poseys, if memory serves me correctly).
There was a little sightseeing on the one nice day...
The Nauset Light in Eastham.
Nearby are the Three Sisters Lighthouses...
Which were in use prior to the Nauset light going into service.
Fun, if short, trip.
Some gratuitous, random P'town photos:
We did manage to get to the OC of course,,,I think it's tilting more than ever. And we also finished a night off at the Little Bar at Atlantic House - which has its own WIKI...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_House.
Be careful.
Nothing could get me out on this thing. Ever.
I actually like the steeple up there.
