Wanna see what it's like to spend a day in the shoes of a Serious Eater? Here's a play-by-play of each and every bite that myself, an old college friend, a three and a half-month-old puppy named Hambone, and Slice Queen Meredith Smith ate during 40 hours of research on Cape Cod. More

For an island of its size and number of year-round residents (only around 10,000), Nantucket Island has an awful lot of restaurants: most of them, of course, catering to summer residents and tourists, who swell the summer population at least five-fold. After twenty-five years of visiting family on the island (and a few recent, exhaustive research weekends), I've eaten at just about every restaurant Nantucket has. Here are the spots I'd recommend. More