Napi's began as a Wednesday night dinner party, got built out of tin garages, stayed open through forty-nine Provincetown winters — and then ended somewhere nobody expected.
Arnold's is in its fiftieth season. The line out the door is not the problem — it's the whole business model. And there are maybe three weeks left to stand in it.
Sixteen years, five hundred people a day, and a traffic light at the door. This is the first August without it.
What a small ice-cream order costs at six stops from Orleans to Wellfleet. Same Cape, $2.01 apart.
A field guide to eating outdoors from Chatham to the tip — line up, order at the window, find a wall.