Nantucket, Massachusetts City Guide
For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Nantucket, Massachusetts Travel Guide has been your connection to Nantucket's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Nantucket Shopping & Dining
 Nantucket Town's commercial district contains nearly all of the island's shops. Attractive home furnishing stores, distinctive art galleries, and fashionable clothing boutiques all share space with the town's ubiquitous T-shirt shops. Most are seasonal, opening sometime after April and closing between Labor Day and November, though a few stay open year-round to accommodate bed and breakfast visitors.
The most unique product is the Nantucket lightship basket, woven of oak or cane, with covers ornamented with scrimshaw or rosewood. During the 19th century, crew members on the lightships off the Sankaty Head wove the baskets to pass the time. Now used as purses, these baskets cost approximately $300.00 for new baskets to well over $3,000.00 for vintage ones. Another signature island product is the all-cotton pants called Nantucket Reds, which fade to pink with washing. They're sold at Murray's Toggery Shop.
Stop by the market for all the fixings for a lovely picnic lunch, sit down for a gourmet meal at a world-class restaurant, savor a hot slice of pizza, or opt for the favorite – Nantucket bay scallops with herb butter, fries, and vegetables. From lobster bisque and baked clams to Nantucket striper and yellowfin tuna, Nantucket seafood will melt in your mouth. Ask your Nantucket bed and breakfast innkeeper for restaurant recommendations and if you try your hand at fishing, your bed and breakfast innkeeper may even prepare it for you as a succulent dinner course!
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