Category: Provincetown, MA

Quiet Moment on a Quiet Provincetown Lane

Provincetown is especially delightful in September and October when the town breathes a sigh of relief after the busy summer season. We are back in Boston but will be sharing some of our favorite shots from our time at lands end.

We recommend an autumn trip to this special place. You can still take a day trip by high speed catamaran if that fits your schedule.

Don't miss an autumn photo opportunity. This Canon PowerShot G15 camera
will give you what you need to take stills and video of Fall Colors. Canon's G series is our all-time favorite for everyday cameras. We own the G10 and G11. They're a little bigger than the compacts most people use, but let you shoot with automatic settings or easy-to-use manual controls that please the many pros who use them as second cameras.

And, if you are ready to turn pro, follow our lead. Ed Shoots with the Nikon D7000 Digital SLR, too and Penny uses a Nikon D600 and is extremely happy with the performance it's delivered.

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Writers: Penny & Ed Cherubino

Photos: from iStockphoto.com

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September 24, 2013
The Canteen in Provincetown Is Added to Our Favorites List

Above is the lobster roll Penny saw advertised on the window at The Canteen in Provincetown. Like many Ptown businesses, they are not open every day this time of year. It was Thursday before we had an opportunity to try it. (Follow them on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with the fall hours.)

After a bad experience with fozen lobster in a roll elsewhere in town, Penny was going to ask if it was fresh but there it was on the wall. "Fresh • Local • Steamed In House Daily," said the menu board.

And, that was exactly what The Canteen delivered. Our meal contained obviously fresh lobster on a toasty, grilled roll with a touch of butter and a sprinkle of freshly chopped chives. Plus, when we opened our take out boxes, we discovered each roll was served with a side of a snappy fresh Asian slaw and a puckery pickle.

Another blackboard displayed the specials including a New England clam chowder with fresh clams, leeks, bacon, and fresh herbs. It was a great version and one we would order again.

The final item in this order was crispy Brussel sprouts with a fish sauce and peppers. They may not be a traditional lobster roll accompaniment but being Brussel sprout fans, we enjoyed them immensely.

We're not the only ones who've made The Canteen a favorite. We had already read rave reviews on Chowhound, Trip Advisor, and in TheYearRounder's Guide to Provincetown.

Here's what TheYearRounder wrote:

What's New? – The Canteen Opens to Great Acclaim, Already a Best Bite

What's New? More New Food to Taste in the Center of Provincetown at The Canteen

(This photo is from The Canteen's Facebook page.)

For those of you who locate things in Provincetown by sight or by what used to be there, The Canteen is next to the Red Store on the West Side of the Pier. The space was Blondie's and before that Blue Light, a former favorite.

If your fall plans include a trip to the tip of Cape Cod, put The Canteen early on your agenda. You will find a menu that keeps calling you back.

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: ©2013 Penny Cherubino & one from The Canteen's Facebook page as noted

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September 18, 2013
The Canteen in Provincetown Is Added to Our Favorites List

Above is the lobster roll Penny saw advertised on the window at The Canteen in Provincetown. Like many Ptown businesses, they are not open every day this time of year. It was Thursday before we had an opportunity to try it. (Follow them on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with the fall hours.)

After a bad experience with fozen lobster in a roll elsewhere in town, Penny was going to ask if it was fresh but there it was on the wall. "Fresh • Local • Steamed In House Daily," said the menu board.

And, that was exactly what The Canteen delivered. Our meal contained obviously fresh lobster on a toasty, grilled roll with a touch of butter and a sprinkle of freshly chopped chives. Plus, when we opened our take out boxes, we discovered each roll was served with a side of a snappy fresh Asian slaw and a puckery pickle.

Another blackboard displayed the specials including a New England clam chowder with fresh clams, leeks, bacon, and fresh herbs. It was a great version and one we would order again.

The final item in this order was crispy Brussel sprouts with a fish sauce and peppers. They may not be a traditional lobster roll accompaniment but being Brussel sprout fans, we enjoyed them immensely.

We're not the only ones who've made The Canteen a favorite. We had already read rave reviews on Chowhound, Trip Advisor, and in TheYearRounder's Guide to Provincetown.

Here's what TheYearRounder wrote:

What's New? – The Canteen Opens to Great Acclaim, Already a Best Bite

What's New? More New Food to Taste in the Center of Provincetown at The Canteen

(This photo is from The Canteen's Facebook page.)

For those of you who locate things in Provincetown by sight or by what used to be there, The Canteen is next to the Red Store on the West Side of the Pier. The space was Blondie's and before that Blue Light, a former favorite.

If your fall plans include a trip to the tip of Cape Cod, put The Canteen early on your agenda. You will find a menu that keeps calling you back.

What's on your Food Lover's Shopping List? Shop Amazon for all your kitchen & dining needs and support this site!

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: ©2013 Penny Cherubino & one from The Canteen's Facebook page as noted

Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.

September 18, 2013
The Canteen in Provincetown Is Added to Our Favorites List

Above is the lobster roll Penny saw advertised on the window at The Canteen in Provincetown. Like many Ptown businesses, they are not open every day this time of year. It was Thursday before we had an opportunity to try it. (Follow them on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with the fall hours.)

After a bad experience with fozen lobster in a roll elsewhere in town, Penny was going to ask if it was fresh but there it was on the wall. "Fresh • Local • Steamed In House Daily," said the menu board.

And, that was exactly what The Canteen delivered. Our meal contained obviously fresh lobster on a toasty, grilled roll with a touch of butter and a sprinkle of freshly chopped chives. Plus, when we opened our take out boxes, we discovered each roll was served with a side of a snappy fresh Asian slaw and a puckery pickle.

Another blackboard displayed the specials including a New England clam chowder with fresh clams, leeks, bacon, and fresh herbs. It was a great version and one we would order again.

The final item in this order was crispy Brussel sprouts with a fish sauce and peppers. They may not be a traditional lobster roll accompaniment but being Brussel sprout fans, we enjoyed them immensely.

We're not the only ones who've made The Canteen a favorite. We had already read rave reviews on Chowhound, Trip Advisor, and in TheYearRounder's Guide to Provincetown.

Here's what TheYearRounder wrote:

What's New? – The Canteen Opens to Great Acclaim, Already a Best Bite

What's New? More New Food to Taste in the Center of Provincetown at The Canteen

(This photo is from The Canteen's Facebook page.)

For those of you who locate things in Provincetown by sight or by what used to be there, The Canteen is next to the Red Store on the West Side of the Pier. The space was Blondie's and before that Blue Light, a former favorite.

If your fall plans include a trip to the tip of Cape Cod, put The Canteen early on your agenda. You will find a menu that keeps calling you back.

What's on your Food Lover's Shopping List? Shop Amazon for all your kitchen & dining needs and support this site!

Details:

Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photos: ©2013 Penny Cherubino & one from The Canteen's Facebook page as noted

Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.

September 18, 2013
Sidewalk Piano Tuner

You never know what sights you'll come across as you walk the streets of Provincetown. But, we did not expect to see a piano tuner working on the sidewalk.

Note-by-note he adjusted the strings on this old upright.

Tuning can be done with tuning forks, but this gentleman had a chromatic tuner
to guide his work.

He attracted more attention than some of the street musicians we had passed along the way, but he did not have a tip jar so we had to assume he wasn't a licensed performer!

If caring for pianos has always fascinated you, the North Bennet Street School offers the opportunity to learn the skills you need for a career in that field.

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino

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September 17, 2013
Sidewalk Piano Tuner

You never know what sights you'll come across as you walk the streets of Provincetown. But, we did not expect to see a piano tuner working on the sidewalk.

Note-by-note he adjusted the strings on this old upright.

Tuning can be done with tuning forks, but this gentleman had a chromatic tuner
to guide his work.

He attracted more attention than some of the street musicians we had passed along the way, but he did not have a tip jar so we had to assume he wasn't a licensed performer!

If caring for pianos has always fascinated you, the North Bennet Street School offers the opportunity to learn the skills you need for a career in that field.

Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

What do you know about Amazon Prime? We use it and love it. You pay once a year for free 2-day shipping delivery charges. Amazon throws in access to instant streaming movies and tv shows and they let you borrow a free ebook each month. They will even give you a one month free trial.

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino

Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.

September 17, 2013
Sidewalk Piano Tuner

You never know what sights you'll come across as you walk the streets of Provincetown. But, we did not expect to see a piano tuner working on the sidewalk.

Note-by-note he adjusted the strings on this old upright.

Tuning can be done with tuning forks, but this gentleman had a chromatic tuner
to guide his work.

He attracted more attention than some of the street musicians we had passed along the way, but he did not have a tip jar so we had to assume he wasn't a licensed performer!

If caring for pianos has always fascinated you, the North Bennet Street School offers the opportunity to learn the skills you need for a career in that field.

Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

What do you know about Amazon Prime? We use it and love it. You pay once a year for free 2-day shipping delivery charges. Amazon throws in access to instant streaming movies and tv shows and they let you borrow a free ebook each month. They will even give you a one month free trial.

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino

Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers' comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.

September 17, 2013
Dinner at Devon’s in Provincetown

During the past week, we have managed to have three breakfasts and one dinner at Devon's in Provincetown's East End. Just the thought of that puts big smiles on our faces.

Our favorite breakfast spot transforms itself each evening to become a white tablecloth, fine dining restaurant with food that would rank with the best in Boston.

We shared our meals because we both wanted the same dishes. Above is the Pan Seared Atlantic Halibut with Cannellini Beans, Pearl Onion, Baby Mustard Green Ragout over Grilled Picholine Olive Bread.

Penny thinks that owner Devon Ruesch and Chef Julia Moore understand that all that sea air makes for hungry diners. They have found ways to balance a meal with elements like that olive bread under the halibut. It soaked up the oniony broth and reminded us of our favorite part of French onion soup.

Here's the house brined, double thick cut, Berkshire pork chop with spiced peach gastrique, crispy spaetzle, over Swiss chard. Here, the wonderful base of spaetzle and chard filled in any empty spaces a big eater might have after gnawing the last morsel off the bone of that chop. Our bone returned to the kitchen as clean as our plates.

More good news on the Provincetown food scene is that Devon has opened a second place, Devon's Deep Sea Dive in the old Tips for Tops'n space on Bradford Street. He has kept some old favorites like the Portuguese Seafood Stew and updates classic seafood shack favorites with the best ingredients and a chef's touch to enhance the appeal.

Here's an archive post about breakfast at Devon's.

Cornmeal Blueberry Pancakes At Devon's in Provincetown

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Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino

September 16, 2013
Dinner at Devon’s in Provincetown

During the past week, we have managed to have three breakfasts and one dinner at Devon's in Provincetown's East End. Just the thought of that puts big smiles on our faces.

Our favorite breakfast spot transforms itself each evening to become a white tablecloth, fine dining restaurant with food that would rank with the best in Boston.

We shared our meals because we both wanted the same dishes. Above is the Pan Seared Atlantic Halibut with Cannellini Beans, Pearl Onion, Baby Mustard Green Ragout over Grilled Picholine Olive Bread.

Penny thinks that owner Devon Ruesch and Chef Julia Moore understand that all that sea air makes for hungry diners. They have found ways to balance a meal with elements like that olive bread under the halibut. It soaked up the oniony broth and reminded us of our favorite part of French onion soup.

Here's the house brined, double thick cut, Berkshire pork chop with spiced peach gastrique, crispy spaetzle, over Swiss chard. Here, the wonderful base of spaetzle and chard filled in any empty spaces a big eater might have after gnawing the last morsel off the bone of that chop. Our bone returned to the kitchen as clean as our plates.

More good news on the Provincetown food scene is that Devon has opened a second place, Devon's Deep Sea Dive in the old Tips for Tops'n space on Bradford Street. He has kept some old favorites like the Portuguese Seafood Stew and updates classic seafood shack favorites with the best ingredients and a chef's touch to enhance the appeal.

Here's an archive post about breakfast at Devon's.

Cornmeal Blueberry Pancakes At Devon's in Provincetown

What do you know about Amazon Prime? We use it and love it. You pay once a year for free 2-day shipping delivery charges. Amazon throws in access to instant streaming movies and tv shows and they let you borrow a free ebook each month. They will even give you a one month free trial. Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino

September 16, 2013
Dinner at Devon’s in Provincetown

During the past week, we have managed to have three breakfasts and one dinner at Devon's in Provincetown's East End. Just the thought of that puts big smiles on our faces.

Our favorite breakfast spot transforms itself each evening to become a white tablecloth, fine dining restaurant with food that would rank with the best in Boston.

We shared our meals because we both wanted the same dishes. Above is the Pan Seared Atlantic Halibut with Cannellini Beans, Pearl Onion, Baby Mustard Green Ragout over Grilled Picholine Olive Bread.

Penny thinks that owner Devon Ruesch and Chef Julia Moore understand that all that sea air makes for hungry diners. They have found ways to balance a meal with elements like that olive bread under the halibut. It soaked up the oniony broth and reminded us of our favorite part of French onion soup.

Here's the house brined, double thick cut, Berkshire pork chop with spiced peach gastrique, crispy spaetzle, over Swiss chard. Here, the wonderful base of spaetzle and chard filled in any empty spaces a big eater might have after gnawing the last morsel off the bone of that chop. Our bone returned to the kitchen as clean as our plates.

More good news on the Provincetown food scene is that Devon has opened a second place, Devon's Deep Sea Dive in the old Tips for Tops'n space on Bradford Street. He has kept some old favorites like the Portuguese Seafood Stew and updates classic seafood shack favorites with the best ingredients and a chef's touch to enhance the appeal.

Here's an archive post about breakfast at Devon's.

Cornmeal Blueberry Pancakes At Devon's in Provincetown

What do you know about Amazon Prime? We use it and love it. You pay once a year for free 2-day shipping delivery charges. Amazon throws in access to instant streaming movies and tv shows and they let you borrow a free ebook each month. They will even give you a one month free trial. Remember to click over to Amazon from here to support this site!

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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino

September 16, 2013