These people - and coffee!! - are terrific. Arrived after closing and while I asked for another…read moreplace they would recommend I go, they insisted on making me a coffee. It is delicious and I am a terribly judgmental coffee drinker. Truly fantastic. Oh, and the blueberry scone is yummy too.

My lox bagel was great. I love that they have republic of tea! Great little spot and really nice…read morestaff.

A very fun café with especially impressive breakfast items that looked tantalizing as we waited for…read moreour order, like lots of yogurt, fruit, and granola bowls. I had visited a number of years ago I realized, and it looks largely the same, like a cozy surf shop within a café including merchandise and zesty decorations around. It's popular and can get cramped with everyone waiting, so there's also an outdoor patio kind of seating area too. The entrance is an unassuming storefront on the main street of Gloucester and down a set of stairs. I had to order the special golden hour latte, a sublime mix of vanilla, cinnamon, and honey flavors with vanilla cold foam. It was one of the best lattes I've had in a while! To eat I had the avocado bacon bagel, a wonderful menu item that hit the spot. Everyone there is very nice. Castaways is a memorable breakfast place, for sure worth visiting if you're in the area during the morning and early afternoon.

Such a fun concept for a coffee spot. If you're in the Gloucester area, definitely stop by to check…read morecastaways vintage cafe. There's a ton of great food and drink options including fun coffee specialties. I was able to customize my iced coffee order and it tasted really good! There's plenty of space to get work down inside as well as a patio. The cafe also has a store attached with a cute beachy vibe if you're looking to buy apparel and things.

We've lived in Gloucester for close to 3 years and the Lone Gull is the best cup of coffee in town…read more The wonderful staff take great care of us every time we come in. Great juice drinks and sandwiches too! Ignore those negative reviews - some of which are several years old anyway. Never heard of a time-limit there either. I've sat and worked on my laptop for hours there undisturbed

A cozy and incredibly inviting little coffee shop. It feels like hanging out in the living room of…read morea family member's house. Service was fast and friendly, I sat in an old, comfy chair with a spicy chai latte and did some work, didn't feel rushed at all. There are dairy alternatives available (soy, oat, and almond) and a good variety of drinks, including Italian sodas, matcha, and smoothies on top of the coffee and tea classics.

Great, cozy little spot in downtown Rockport. I haven't had any of their lunch food but their…read moredonuts are excellent. I usually prefer a yeasted donut but here I always go for the cake donuts. It was a sad day when I tried their butter crunch donut because I knew that was the donut I would get every time I stopped in for a donut... no more trying a new flavor each time. It's absolutely superb. Great ambiance and the people who work there are awesome!

Adorable coffee shop packed with Rockport locals easing into their mornings, chit-chatting with…read morefriends. Window nook seating with counter seating and a view of all the coffee and fresh homemade donuts made every morning. Loved the blueberry donut, so deliciously dense and thick, and the dark sin coffee. Crab cake breakfast skillet needed salt, but otherwise the whole meal was a great way to kick off the day.

This is my favorite place to go for breakfast, hands down. I'm boring: I get the same thing every…read moresingle time. I usually browse the menu, drive myself crazy looking at the yummy options, and end up ordering my usual. What can I say? I'm a sucker for scrambled eggs, and this place does scrambled eggs perfectly. If you're a pancake eater, the pancakes here are HUGE. If I were to order even one, I know I'd never manage to finish it and eat anything else I ordered. Weekends are busy, of course. It's not a very big place, so it fills up quick. Service here is pretty good, even when it's busy. I once saw a (freakishly big) spider crawling on the ceiling and worried about it dropping down on me, and the waitress suggested that we move to another table, saying that she'd want to move too. Everything is pretty cheap, and the quality of the food is great. The one downside is the price of bacon. It's just too much for the amount they give you. (But it's been a while since I've ordered bacon there, so for all I know, they give a more generous serving now.)

This is the quintessential local greasy spoon diner and I couldn't be more complimentary about that…read morestatement. Sit at the counter, mull over the menu with a fresh cup, and watch the day go by from the window. I love that the kitchen and dining room are staffed by the two sisters. This is the kind of place that the patrons and staff are on first name basis. Sure, you'll get visitors like me but this place is mostly locals. My favorite quirk is the Portuguese sausage - linguica; all the way in Gloucester? Count me in. Is every dish executed perfectly? Certainly not. But you can taste the love and care in every dish.

What a treat in the heart of coastal Gloucester! Two Sisters is a quaint, small diner right near…read morethe water, a prime location for anyone wishing for that small beach town feel. The wait staff makes every customer feel like they're a close friend, and the food was absolutely do die for. I got a simple serving of toast, eggs, potatoes and bacon, and it was some of the best I've ever had. I can't wait to come back when I visit next time!

Stopped here on the way to Eastern Point because it was the "last stop" for coffee. I wanted to try…read morea latte but I guess the owner was on the phone and the guy helping was just a regular manning the cash register to help her. So, I had a passable coffee. Had to kind of lead him through the sale. He didn't seem to be much help. But, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that I walked in at a bad time because the shop was so cute. Lots of things I would look at if I had more time. The baked goods were wonderful! I had a beautiful, fresh, huge, strawberry muffin! Loved every bite! My friend got a lemon square and it was equally scrumptious. I'll definitely stop there again and give it another shot.

I really hate to leave a bad review for a small local business. But this was just inexcusable…read more Ordered two sandwiches from the menu. The turkey melt and chicken salad wrap. Was charged $10.75 + tax for chicken salad with a few stray cranberries, and a piece of lettuce. no salt, pepper, seasoning or even the walnuts that were stated on the menu. The turkey melt was supposed to come with turkey, swiss, bacon, tomato, and drizzle which I assumed was balsamic or something similar. It was a slice of turkey and cheese. Period. For $11.75 + tax. Same price as the sandwich i ordered, from the menu, which i ordered by the name as it is written, on the menu. Absurd. And waited 20 minutes, as they said that was how long it would take, and walked out of my way for this. Quality of turkey was good. Everything else about this experience was so incredibly disappointing.

The food is amazing at The Cove Cafe.I especially like the variety of coffees and bakery items and…read moresandwiches A real gem for CapeAnn for sure .Wont be disappointed.

I grew up in Boston and went with family to Cape Ann many times. I recently met my cousins for a…read morefew nights and we stopped by this place our hotel recommended. What a mistake. All 3 of us ordered the egg sandwich. It's cooked egg (like a puck) on 2 slices of plain bread with about 1 teaspoon of cheese that is such a small amount that it doesn't cover most of the egg. That's it. Not enough cheese, no butter, no salt, no pepper. Nothing. They don't even toast the bread. If we had tasked our 6 year old nephew to making us egg sandwiches, this is what he would hand us. My cousins had coffee. One hot and the other cold. Hot reportedly is pretty good and the iced is not very strong. I ordered an iced tea. When iced tea is made fresh from actual tea (a good thing), then sits in the fridge for 6 or 7 days (a bad thing), it gets a very distinctive stale taste and that's exactly what this iced tea had. It was old and stale. I threw it away and since the egg sandwich was so dry, I pulled a bottle of water I had in my beach tote to wash it down. My cousin asked the friendly staffer (super friendly, actually, so a shout out to them) for some salt and this turned into a task. She had to ask someone else and that person had to go off somewhere to get some from a plastic container. If you're going to serve unseasoned food, have salt available, please. I ordered a croissant, which was OK and my other cousin ordered a blueberry slab dessert that was smothered in so much icing that it was sickeningly sweet. We joked that eying it from the side, the icing was thicker than the pastry itself. One of us grabbed a knife and tried to scrape some off to no avail. It fell apart, none of us wanted any more and we tossed most of it. I like to support small businesses, but this was not a good experience for us.

Gorgeous view of the water from the couple of tables of seating, adorable spot. The coffee was some…read moreof the best we had, such a delicious cappuccino and fall seasonal specials. Fairly good and simple crispy English muffin egg sandwich. Quaint and super kind servers.

The coffee shop itself is cute and did make a tasty white mocha…read more One of the reasons I marked it down (there were some others) is it took a very long time to even place my order. I'm not sure the last time I encountered such a slow cafe line.

Love me some Virgillios everything! I grew up here in Gloucester and my family and I have been…read moregoing there ever since and I'm not young. Serv I be is as great as the good and I know I'm right because I'm Italian! lol

Virgilio's is the spot to be on a sunny day in Gloucester with a line wrapping out of this small…read moredeli outside the door! Place your order at the counter and wait outside for your name to be called overhead. There are so many sandwich options and baked goods - i came for a sandwich. I had the saint joseph sub - which came with all the meats and provolone and oiled. It was simple, classic, and delicious. I do wish I would have chose a sub with more vegetables but thats on me. For something done so simply, its done very well. I also appreciated the prices - a roll being $10 and a sub being $12 regardless the filling is very unheard of in Mass!