COASTAL CABIN
Linger over brunch at Coastal Cabin. With bottomless mimosas and Bloody Marys ($15) you may tuck into crab-cake Benedict, fried hen and waffles, caramelized scallop rolls, and seafood crepes. Fruit and smoked gouda hashbrowns are served with each dish.
Later within the day, pair a summer time cocktail — perhaps chili lime mango margarita, cucumber basil or grapefruit martinis, blackberry citrus old style — with an app: roasted oysters, pan–seared crab cake with avocado tomato salsa, or baked lobster ravioli. From 4 to six p.m. each day, you’ll discover half-priced apps, like fried capers or home meatballs with pineapple salsa. Summery dinner fare contains recent berry salad with parmesan, grilled rosemary garlic swordfish, and caramelized scallops.
945 Boston Neck Street, Narragansett, 401-789-1725, coastalcabinri.com.
AMIGOS TAQUERIA Y TEQUILA
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Whether or not you’re searching for breakfast burritos, post-work margaritas, or an genuine Mexican dinner in South County, go to Amigos Taqueria Y Tequila in Westerly.
Breakfast and brunch are served with cornbread and Mexican rice and beans — or home-fries and toast, in case you desire. Suppose huevos rancheros with avocado, toquilla-cured smoked salmon with grilled home bread, lobster eggs benedict, a stuffed avocado, crammed with poached eggs, cheese and salsa. Construct-your-own omelet or tortilla wrap (perhaps goat cheese, smoked salmon, avocado, chorizo, tofu, mozzarella); or fried plantain and cinnamon French toast; churro waffles rolled in cinnamon with dulce de leche, canola almond French toast or pancakes: blueberry, pumpkin or chocolate chip.
For afternoon drinks, you’ll discover tequila-forward cocktails, sangrias, and Mexican beers. Tapas could embrace lump crab and chipotle guacamole and chips, nacho casserole, “Matt’s nacho fries” — French fries with nacho toppings and cheese sauce, mini chimichangas, mango habanera buffalo wing with avocado gorgonzola sauce, Corona-batter fish and chips with guava Cole slaw. Linger over seared ahi tuna tostada, seared scallops sautéed with cactus, banana leaf-wrapped salmon over plantain risotto, grilled salmon tacos with papaya cucumber slaw. For summer time fiestas, take notice: they cater.
2 Canal St., Westerly, 401-315-5800, amigosri.com.
MATUNUCK OYSTER BAR
For a sit-down dinner with waterfront atmosphere, Matuncuk Oyster Bar is a South County pearl. Overlooking Potter Pond the place their oysters are harvested, Matunuck is really pond-to-plate— and in addition farm-to-table. Some veggies and herbs — rosemary, sage, salad greens, carrots, kale, peas and extra — are plucked from their close by natural vegetable farm.
Proprietor Perry Raso began digging littlenecks in Level Judith Pond when he was 12, and grew up harvesting shellfish, eel trapping, bull-raking clams, and diving for steamers. Earlier than he opened Matunuck Oyster Bar, he was an oyster farmer. After graduating from the College of Rhode Island, Raso studied aquaculture and fisheries know-how. You may e-book an oyster farm tour, which features a go to to the shellfish farm.
Raso based Matunuck Oyster Farm, and opened the restaurant in 2009. In 2011 he began rising natural veggies, and immediately, there’s a shellfish hatchery.
You may catch a summer time sundown by the water whereas eating on the waterfront deck over littlenecks and cherrystones, or chilled lobster. Go together with buddies to “Cross the Tower” — an assortment of oysters, littlenecks, jumbo shrimp, chilled entire lobster, Level Judith crab, tune poke, and seaweed salad.
Not a uncooked fan? Ready shellfish contains mussels with white wine, herb butter, and garlic crostini, littlenecks and chourico; evenly fried oysters with cucumber avocado, remoulade mint. Strive lobster pizza on Naan, home stuffies, Level Judith calamari, or quinoa crab salad. Sandwiches embrace a lobster roll and an oyster po’ boy. Entrees could embrace Potter Pond poke bowl (yellowfin, edamame, sticky rice, crispy wonton, sesame tamari); seared scallops with native veggies; jambalaya with fried oysters, or linguine with Rhody littlenecks.
629 Succotash Street, South Kingstown, 401-783-4202, rhodyoysters.com.
GEORGE’S OF GALILEE
With views of Block Island Sound, George’s has a protracted historical past in Rhode Island, opening within the first half of the twentieth century.
Whether or not you’re jonesing for sushi and eye-catching cocktails at their tiki beach bar, craving clam-cakes on the deck, or intrigued by sustainable seafood, George’s menu — largely boat-to-plate — is in depth.
You may begin with applewood bacon mussels with entire grain mustard, baked brie with an apricot cranberry jam, flash-fried calamari, or fried oysters with orange marmalade and cucumbers. Home clam-cakes pair with either traditional clear-broth Rhode Island clam chowder, or a creamy New England clam chowder (to fulfill all sides of the chowder debate.) Entrees embrace char-grilled salmon with a Jim Beam glaze, baked stuffed shrimp with herbed cracker stuffing, lobster truffle with sun-dried tomatoes, pulled hen sandwich with agave barbecue, or a “9 Serviette Burger” smothered with bourbon glaze, bacon, cheddar and fried onions.
250 Sand Hill Cove Street, Port of Galilee, 401-783-2306, georgesofgalilee.com.
COAST GUARD HOUSE
Nestled by the ocean on a granite perch relationship again to the 1800s, Coast Guard House is a long-time Rhody notable that’s additionally scooped up Wine Spectator awards for his or her pages-long vino record.
The restaurant dates again to the Nineteen Forties, recognized for its views of Narragansett Bay. Take within the view over the lobster bisque, fried gnocchi, lobster corn tamale, or octopus salad. They’re recognized for his or her seafood dishes, such because the swordfish with fregola, salon with rice noodles, lobster ravioli, and steam lobster dinner
40 Ocean Street, Narragansett, 401-789-0700, thecoastguardhouse.com.
OLYMPIA TEA ROOM
In Watch Hill — sure, the place Taylor Swift has a mansion — Olympia Tea Room throws down type from floor to ceiling. Based in 1916, this gem and one-time soda store provides sidewalk seating so you possibly can people-watch over tuna sashimi, Venetian tagliolini, or baby-back ribs with Korean barbecue sauce. For entrees, par for the course: grilled sausage bruno, Portuguese baked haddock with spicy crushed tomatoes, lime chipotle shrimp. Oh, they usually serve greater than 100 wines, in line with their menu.
74 Bay Avenue, Westerly, 401-348-8211, olympiatearoom.com.
MONAHAN’S CLAM SHACK
For traditional Rhode Island seashore vibes — assume lobster rolls, clam strips and clear chowder by the ocean, hit up Monahan’s Clam Shack in Narragansett. That is your Ocean State postcard menu: clam-cakes and chowder, fries, onion rings, chilled lobster roll with mayo or a sizzling lobster roll, sautéed in drawn butter; clam strip rolls, fried fish tacos, fish and chips, clam strip dinner.
Initially opened by Joseph Monahan within the Nineteen Forties, the spot by the ocean wall beforehand functioned as a fuel station and dairy bar. Right now, on the seasonal eatery, you may take pleasure in a coconut shrimp basket by a fire pit.
190 Ocean Street, Narragansett, 401-782-2524, monahansri.com.
Jayd Bun
JAYD BUN
For genuine Chinese language in South County, two phrases: Jayd Bun. The husband-and-wife owned and operated restaurant serves a menu primarily based on the meals chef Annie Parisi grew up with in Tianjin, China. All the pieces is made by hand, from the pan-fried pork buns with chive, ginger, scallion and sesame oil to the “Jayd fusion” — a practice Chinese language scallion pancake with “secret Jayd rub.” For entrees, assume Spicy pork-filled wontons, peanut butter noodle with hen, maybe jin jin dumplings or their Chinese beef patty.
1202 Kingstown Street, South Kingstown, 401-515-7900, jaydbun.us.
TWIN WILLOWS
A go-to spot for stay music, summer time fare, water views, and cocktails on the deck. Suppose Level Judith calamari, clam-cakes, stuffies with chorizo, smoked haddock tacos with cucumber tomato salsa, shrimp BLT, blackened turkey burger with cranberry blue cheese, shrimp scampi with Vermont butter, paella with native littlenecks and blue mussels.
865 Boston Neck Street, Narragansett, 401-789-8153, twinwillowsri.com.
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