Oysters in Wellfleet

[Pat Hammond]

Last Saturday I visited Cape Cod for the first time. Lunch was at the Bookstore and Restaurant in Wellfleet. it's a very nice space, across from Wellfleet Bay. On nice days there's outside dining. The menu has lots of seafood options and the Salade Nicoise was one of the nicest I've seen. The tuna wasn't canned, but a nice hunk of fresh tuna. My companions enjoyed that.

I've always thought that Wellfleet must be to oysters what Ipswich is to clams, but never thought I'd be sitting overlooking Wellfleet Bay ordering those oysters. Best oysters I've ever had, harvested out front that morning. The Bookstore manager told me that. (The Bookstore is a whole other (off topic) story. The liquor in the shell was divine, the oysters plump and almost sweet in a salty kind of way. I'll dream of those oysters. So for my main course I had oyster stew, also excellent.

50 Kendrick Avenue, Wellfleet

[JenJeninCT]

We just got home from one of our multi-annual trips to the Cape. While much smaller than my first oyster love, Appalichicolas, they(Wellfleet oysters) are sublime in their sweet, briny goodness. The local (to me now) Blue Point oysters are quite uninspiring in comparison. We spend a good portion of our Cape dining dollar on oysters in some incarnation or another, but nothing beats them raw!

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Blue Point Restaurant
6 Dayton St, Acushnet, MA 02743

[im hungry]

the wellfleet oyster fest is the weekend of the 15th in oct,we daytripped it last year,this year we got a dog-friendly b&b....cant wait,look-out Oysters,were coming for you!!!!

[AGM_Cape_Cod]

Just an FYI this year the Oyster Fest is not allowing dogs.

[im hungry]

thanks for the info,dogs well be sound to sleep after a few hours of playing in the ocean..where do we go for breakfast sunday morning,we are staying in trouro...thanks

[JenJeninCT]

IMHO, there is no better breakfast on the Cape than Wicked Oyster in Wellfleet- absolutely outstanding!

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Wicked Oyster
50 Main St, Wellfleet, MA 02667