Dining
Free Pancakes
It’s a freedom festival of the most floury kind. Pancakes for free and someone else is making them. What more could a harried vacationer ask for?
The breakfast party is being thrown on Monday, July 4 by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in honor of our veterans. The eating begins at 8:30 a.m. and the flapjacks are flipped until 10 p.m. at the Merchants Mart off State Road in Vineyard Haven.
For more details, call 774-563-0460.
Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha’s Vineyard. By Will Holtham with A. D. Minnick, Photography by Mike Buytas, Illustrations by Susan Tobey White, Lyons Press, $19.95
Have truck, will travel — or better yet, follow your nose.
That’s the idea behind the growing food truck obsession across the country — in a culture where people are constantly on the go, so is our food.
The Vineyard is the latest place to pick up on the trend. While it may seem like a natural fit for a food-loving Island to get on the bandwagon, when it comes to the rules and regulations it’s not as easy as it looks.
Restaurant Week Serves It Up
There’s a rumbling taking place on the Island this week but it’s not on the ferries or streets, per se, as the summer throngs head this way. This rumble echoes forth from deep inside us all, a literal hunger for food and drink of the finest kind. And this hunger is about to be filled.
New Food Yorker
Chef AJ Black, owner and restaurateur of Il Tesoro at the Terrace in Edgartown, is opening his newest venture in the upper east side of Manhattan. Opening in September 2011, Il Tesoro Ristorante and Bar will bring Mr. Black’s award-winning Italian cuisine to diners at 1578 First avenue at 82nd East, previously the home for 35 years to Primavera Ristorante. For updates or to make reservations, go online to iltesoro.net, call 508-939-3840, or stop by Il Tesoro at the Terrace.
For spring taste buds craving something new, there are a slew of options across the Vineyard. Jerk chicken from a food truck near the airport, artisanal cheese and smoked meats in Edgartown and healthy smoothies in Vineyard Haven are just a few of the choices that weren’t here last summer.
Irie Bites, a food truck operated by Melody Cunningham and Peter Simon, will be parked at every Nectar’s show this summer, so concert-goers can cap off their night with savory Jamaican jerk chicken.