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| Portuguese Bakery has simple, inexpensive breakfasts. |
It's
been a while since we worked our way around the town to a whole day of meals
for less than $35, so here we go. We'll start with breakfast at the
Provincetown Portuguese Bakery. This is not a fancy breakfast with a parsley
sprig and a cantaloupe sliver garnishing the plate. This is a simple ham and
cheese omelet served with a couple of slices of hearty multigrain toast with
butter and jelly. Other bread choices are available, too.
The
famous Portuguese Bakery, at 299 Commercial Street, has been there for well
over a hundred years, selling not only wholesale Portuguese breads, which gave
the shop its start, along with the huge selection of pastries that were later
offered to the public, but for the last many years they've also operated
a tiny, no-frills café for breakfast and lunch as well, with a grill and a
small kitchen in the front corner of the shop. They make fried eggs, French
toast, omelets and breakfast sandwiches. My omelet was $5.85, and with tax and
tip it cost me $6.85. Some folks don't tip at a counter-service restaurant
where no one actually serves food to you at a table, but I generally leave
around 10% for the folks who take my order and hand me the food, whether I'm
eating-in or ordering takeout.
You
are asked to bus your own table here, so just sweep your crumbs onto your paper
plate and toss it into the trash bin. There's also a recycling bin for soda
bottles and cans at lunchtime. Clearing your own table keeps prices low here,
so your omelet isn't $8 to $10 as it is in a little fancier place.
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| Vorelli's has many choices within our lunch budget. |
For
lunch, we're off to Vorelli's, at 226 Commercial Street, where the sign out
front announces three lunch specials for less than $9. How about the 6 ounce
Black Angus Burger, served with steak fries, for $8.25? I like my burger
medium-rare, and at Vorelli's, it always comes out juicy and flavorful and just
as I ordered it.
Besides
the BBQ pulled pork sandwich served with cole slaw, and the the soup &
sandwich special mentioned on the sign, there are other menu choices like a
variety of sandwiches that fit our budget for this meal, and when I last
checked their lunch menu there was also an artichoke and spinach quiche and
small salad for $8.95.
You'll
always find someone helpful in front of Vorelli's, ready to show you the menu
and make suggestions, and the service is always prompt and friendly. With tax
and a 20% tip on our delicious burger and fries, we're out the door with a big
smile for just $10.48.
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| You can't beat the early dinner specials at the Seafood Grille. |
Dinner
takes us to the Seafood Grille at the Waterford Inn, at 386 Commercial Street.
They continue to offer a complete three-course early bird dinner special for
just $14 as long as your order is in by 7 PM. Dinner starts with your choice of
a lovely garden salad or a cup of clam chowder, followed your choice of four
entrées, including Cape Cod fish and chips, broiled cod with Lobster Newburg
sauce, grilled lemon pepper chicken breast with rice, or steamed mussels over
Asian vegetables and linguini, which is what I invariably order because I can't
just can't help it. This is one of my very favorite seafood dishes in
Provincetown at any price. Your meal also includes a great crusty sour dough
bread, and the dessert of the day, often ice cream drizzled with chocolate
sauce. This early dinner special is a great meal, whatever entrée you choose.
at the eminently affordable price of $17.78 including a 20% tip and state and
local meals taxes, and that has earned it TheYearRounder's Best Bite award
for the second year.
We've had 3 good
meals and left a decent tip for a total of $35.10 for the day. More posts will
follow soon in our "3 Under 35" series as we roam through
Provincetown and find many more ways to enjoy three good meals for about $35 or
less for the entire day.
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