Once you make hummus at home, you may be disappointed you haven’t been making it yourself all along. This Middle Eastern standard is incredibly easy to whip up in a food processor, and it lasts for about two weeks in the fridge. The best recipe I’ve found is Mark Bittman’s from his excellent cookbook The [...]

If anything can be termed “hot” on Nantucket, an island where miniskirts are still revolutionary, Sfoglia is it. Impossible to get into last July 4th weekend, it had calmed down somewhat by this year’s Labor Day weekend–because at eight years old, Sfoglia is still considered “new.”

The waiting area, where the bench is an old buggy [...]

There are a number of great restaurants on Nantucket, among them Sfoglia (so popular that we couldn’t get a table in a five-day period), 21 Federal (for classic food, excellent service and choice people-watching), and the Galley (for elegant beach-side dining and fantastic New England clam chowder). But the one that stood out from the [...]

We ran into a friend in Nantucket – let’s call him Ping Pong – who begged to be included in Gastro Chic. He pointed out that he was wearing espadrilles a friend had brought him back from Morocco. After much scoffing, we took several joke photos of him.

Turns out Ping Pong was right: Espadrilles do [...]

What do you call a restaurant on a hardscrabble piece of land just off the main rotary in Nantucket? Well, how about “The Rotary.”
This and other no-nonsense details about this “fast food” shack make it seem truly New England. The grill master may bend the rules to serve you a lobster roll a couple minutes [...]