Nantucket Guide: Part Two Food

Here is my second installment of my Nantucket Guide! It's all about food, and my favorite restaurants on the island. I did not name all of them, as I will say a few times, because I love so many restaurants here, that it is hard to name all of them!

FOOD

Petticoat Bakery

Location: Town

Info: Great bakery, its the best bread on the island! It can get packed in the morning.

What I Get: I like the baguettes, my mom likes the chocolate croissant, my dad likes the scones, and my brother likes the ham and cheese croissant.

Millies

Location: Madaket

Info: They serve a Mexican cuisine inside, and outside they sell salads and sandwiches. Upstairs there are great views of the ocean. They also own a small market next door where they sell ice cream, pastries from Petticoat Bakery (located in town), ping pong balls, smoothies, chips, prepared lunches, milkshakes, water toys, and other random items!

What I Order: Cheese Quesadillas with no sour cream, a side of yellow rice, and the chips and salsa as an appetizer!

Juice Bar
Location: Broad Street
Info: The best ice cream on the island. They make their own waffle cones daily. This is also one of the most popular attractions on the island, and there is almost always a line stretching out the door! Unless you are fine with waiting, I would avoid trekking over here around dinner time!
What I Order: Cake Batter ice cream in a waffle cone

Dune
Location: Town
Info: I went here for the first time this year. I was EXTREMELY skeptical at first because I am such a picky eater, but my meal actually turned out to be good.
What I Ordered: Vegetable Risotto and the Cinnamon Donut

The Vegetable Risotto: Before

After!

Cinnamon donut with a fried apple and chocolate and caramel sauces

Lobster Trap
Location: Town (Near Wharf)
Info: This is one place my family always goes when we are in Nantucket. If you go early you are sure to get a table but once it's around 6:30-7:30 you will probably have to wait 30++ minutes.
What We Order: My mom, dad, and brother all get the 1 and a half pound boiled lobster, and I get three sides, normally corn, asparagus, and the amazing sweet potato fries.

Lobster from the Lobster Trap

Pi Pizzeria
Location: Outside of Town
Info: This has been a favorite of mine for many years now. They serve really good pizza (with really good pepperoni) that I ate all the time when I was not a vegetarian. Depending on when you come in, it might be really empty or extremely packed! On the side of the restaurant they also have a deli shop where you can buy Italian cookies, pastas, sauces, tee shirts, and house made desserts!
What We Order: my brother gets a caesar salad (note that they are TINY!), and he shares a pepporoni pizza with my mom and dad. This time I got the tuscan white bean soup and penne with marinara sauce. The soup was really good, and I don't even like spinach!

Tuscan White Bean Soup

Brant Point Grill
Location: Brant Point (on the Harbor)
Info: This restaurant is owned and operated by the luxury Nantucket resort "the White Elephant". Its a pretty nice restaurant with great views and equally great food. My family loves to come here and take pictures!
What I order: I get three sides (I basically order sides at every restaurant that is not Japanese or Italian), asparagus, edamame succotash, and sweet potato fries.

Jetties Beach Restaurant
Location: Jetties Beach
Info: I kind of mentioned this place in the Beaches post, but it's so fun! Very family and kid friendly. Sometimes they have live musicians playing while you eat. A wide range of foods are offered. Mainly families come here, but I have scene twenty-somethings all hanging out for a good drink and bite to eat, as well!
What I Ordered: Pasta with Marinara sauce

LoLa 41
Location: Edge of Brant Point
Info: They serve a wide variety of different foods. They have a sushi chef, but also serve burgers. Their philosophy is that they are serving food from all over the Longitude and Latitude 41... (I think I got that right?). The only way to get a reservation (unless you have a coveted "in", as much of the elite on this island seem to have) is to wait in line in front of the restuarant when they open their doors for reservations at 4:00. You can also call at 4, but they take people who are waiting outside first. Very hip, you'll see all different types of people here!
What I Ordered: Miso Soup, Edamame, and a side of French Fries (which is huge! I shared with my mom and dad, and we barely finished it!)

Brotherhood of Thieves
Location: Town
Info: Great laid-back lunch spot. One of my favorite stops! Right near the Juice bar and Nantucket Bookworks, my favorite bookstore. Its really cool because it is actually located the the basement of one of the buildings!
What I Order: The nachos! (With no guac, sour cream, and jalepenos)

Sea Dog Brew Pub
Location: South Water Street (Town)
Info: This restaurant has changed many times. This year, it's Sea Dog, which serves various kinds of beers and spirits. The food was okay. My mom, dad, and I thought it was fine, but my brother did not care for it.
What We Ordered: My mom ordered a cheeseburger, my dad got a burger, I had a black bean veggie burger (it was alright, I do not normally like veggie burgers) with really good sweet potato fries! My brother ordered BBQ I think? He did not like it, but he did like the homemade chips!

Easy Street Cantina
Location: Corner of Broad Street and Easy Street
Info: A few years ago, there were two restaurants on Broad Street that are no longer there, one was a Mexican place called Tacos Tacos and the other one (I think) was called Broad Street Grill. They merged, and now there is Easy Street Cantina. It serves mexican food, and run of the mill New Orleans-inspired fast food. Although it is fast food, this is Nantucket, so prices can be kind of steep. Depending on what you order, the food can be good, or not-so-good.
What We Order: I get a side of the Rice & Beans Mix and tacos, and my brother normally gets something with chicken, or tacos as well.

Other restaurants that I did not write about include Steamboat Pizza (Broad Street), CRU (Wharf, in Town), Sophie T's Pizza, Fog Island Cafe (Town), among many others. Just because I did not list a restaurant does not mean that I did not like it or have not gone there. I have been going to Nantucket for so long that I have been to a lot of restaurants on the island!

My parent's favorite restaurant is Oran Mor, but I have never been there! Its fancy and French. I have been to many many more restaurants than this in Nantucket, but these are some of my favorites. I am sure that after reading this you can see just how much of a picky eater I am. Do you have any questions, or things to add? Please let me know in a comment below!

XOXOXO,
Kels