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Ok, this is a food not a music blog, though good food and music go hand-in-hand, but, just to be clear, this is a not a post about Buddy Holly. I just couldn't resist using his name in a post about Sir Cricket's on the Cape (Cod, Route 6, Orleans, MA). On the other hand, you will feel like rock 'n' rolling after having the fried clams, fresh tuna sandwich, just about anything that Sir Cricket's dishes out.
Tina and I have been going up to the Cape every summer - sometimes all summer, sometimes just a month or less - since 1982. Our kids - now adults - still think of it as a second home, and now come up with their spouses. We've loved the food in Cooke's, Captain Elmer's, Cobie's, and other choice Cape fish houses aka joints, and somehow didn't get around to trying Sir Cricket's until last summer (2011).
How did we like it? We ate there - at one of the postage-stamp sized handful of tables, or take-out and back to our cottage on the bay - at least half the time we were there. Clams are my favorite kind of seafood anywhere. The steamers at Captain Elmer's are fabulous, but the fried clams - I like 'em with bellies - at Sir Cricket's are even better. Sweet as can be, with a breading that's perfectly slightly crisp and light.
The tuna sandwich is stand-out, too. If you never tasted a sandwich made with fresh as opposed to canned tuna, you don't know what you're missing. Sir Cricket's comes on delicious bun - same as the clam roll, and all the other mouth-watering rolls in the place - and is the smoothest, most satisfying little tuna sandwich you'll ever eat.
Prices are fine, too. The tuna sandwich goes for an amazingly low seven bucks, and the seafood rolls about thirteen-fourteen dollars. Worth every penny!
Ok, this is a food not a music blog, though good food and music go hand-in-hand, but, just to be clear, this is a not a post about Buddy Holly. I just couldn't resist using his name in a post about Sir Cricket's on the Cape (Cod, Route 6, Orleans, MA). On the other hand, you will feel like rock 'n' rolling after having the fried clams, fresh tuna sandwich, just about anything that Sir Cricket's dishes out.
Tina and I have been going up to the Cape every summer - sometimes all summer, sometimes just a month or less - since 1982. Our kids - now adults - still think of it as a second home, and now come up with their spouses. We've loved the food in Cooke's, Captain Elmer's, Cobie's, and other choice Cape fish houses aka joints, and somehow didn't get around to trying Sir Cricket's until last summer (2011).
How did we like it? We ate there - at one of the postage-stamp sized handful of tables, or take-out and back to our cottage on the bay - at least half the time we were there. Clams are my favorite kind of seafood anywhere. The steamers at Captain Elmer's are fabulous, but the fried clams - I like 'em with bellies - at Sir Cricket's are even better. Sweet as can be, with a breading that's perfectly slightly crisp and light.
The tuna sandwich is stand-out, too. If you never tasted a sandwich made with fresh as opposed to canned tuna, you don't know what you're missing. Sir Cricket's comes on delicious bun - same as the clam roll, and all the other mouth-watering rolls in the place - and is the smoothest, most satisfying little tuna sandwich you'll ever eat.Prices are fine, too. The tuna sandwich goes for an amazingly low seven bucks, and the seafood rolls about thirteen-fourteen dollars. Worth every penny!
