The Mews Restaurant & Cafe

Frommer's Review

Bank on fine food and suave service at this beachfront restaurant, an enduring favorite since 1961. Upstairs is the cafe with its century-old carved mahogany bar. The dining room downstairs sits right on the beach -- and is practically of the beach, with its sand-toned walls warmed by toffee-colored Tiffany table lamps. The best soup in the region is the Mews' scrumptious summertime special, chilled cucumber miso bisque with curry shrimp timbale. Perennial pleasures include the Marsala-marinated portobello mushrooms and a mixed-seafood carpaccio. Among the showier entrees is "captured scallops": prime Wellfleet specimens enclosed with a shrimp-and-crab mousse in a crisp wonton pouch and served atop a petite filet mignon with chipotle aioli. Desserts and coffees -- you might take them upstairs in the cafe to the accompaniment of soft-jazz piano -- are delectable. Awash in sea blues that blend with the view, Cafe Mews offers a lighter, less expensive menu and serves as an elegantly informal community clubhouse year-round.

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