Restaurants in Dennis

This is the ultimate seafood shack, and it’s an institution in these parts. Somehow the fried food is not greasy, the breading is flavorful, and the fish is cooked perfectly. Most people sit outside on the picnic tables, but you can also sit inside or get the food to go and take it…

This is where you go after a play at the Cape Playhouse or a movie at Cape Cinema. It is right on the cultural campus that includes the theater, cinema and museum; and it uses the same parking lot—very convenient. Fortunately, the food is good too. Appropriate for a place where you…

Using the best local ingredients, including local fish, is the focus of Fin, an upscale restaurant in a historic house in the Theater Marketplace, a short walk from the Cape Cinema, Cape Playhouse (p. ###), and Cape Museum of Art. Food is on the rich side and very good. You’ll want…

Just steps from Chapin Beach, Gina’s has been pleasing beachgoers for more than 60 years. The restaurant consists of a back room, which is dark and romantic if a little crowded, and the porch-like front room, which is more light and airy. This is old-fashioned Italian food like your…

Attention to detail is the operative phrase at this tiny and romantic chef-owned restaurant. The restaurant looks like a modest roadhouse from the outside, but the interior makes it clear that special care has gone into all aspects of dining here. The owner states that hospitality is…

When you emerge from the Cape Playhouse late at night and need a place to eat, this is a great choice. Right across the street in a beautifully restored captain’s house, the Scargo Café has been satisfying hungry theatergoers for decades. The beauty of this place is the variety of…

You’ll feel like a local if you can find this place, located harborside at Northside Marina just north of Dennis Village. Preferred seating is on picnic tables out on the deck under colorful umbrellas. This is a great place to come to partake of the raw bar, which besides shellfish…

Sundae School is an old-fashioned ice-cream parlor in a shingled barn with a bright red door. It’s full of fun ice-cream memorabilia, and the homemade flavors are sensational, from the Amaretto Nut all the way down to the Turtle (chocolate and butterscotch ice cream with pecans).…

A regular contender for the Cape’s top restaurant, the Ocean House seems to have it all: attentive service, great food, and sensational views of the Sound. The restaurant sits on the beach, with windows giving diners a 180-degree beachfront view. The thoughtful menu means that light…

Restaurant patrons have been heading to this 200-year-old red barn on the Old King’s Highway since 1977, but new owners have updated the decor and reworked the menu to include some surprises. For instance, the selection of charcoal grilled skewers is a choice between local squid,…

In the days when packet ships plied the local waters, transporting goods from Boston to New York, a “wee packet” was the colloquial name for a small ship. Cape Cod byways used to be lined with little family fish shacks like this. What’s fun here is the traditional full Irish…