Best of Boston

There are plenty of restaurants on Nantucket with top-notch food, but when there’s something to be celebrated (no matter how small), locals go to Galley Beach, and for good reason. This finedining, open-air restaurant sits directly on the beach, offering unobstructed views of Nantucket Sound as delicious as the carefully curated chef’s menus served daily from 11:30 to close (we recommend the miso-butter-poached lobster). Even better: New this year, you can make a day of it by adding on beach service (with a chair and umbrella rental) until 5 p.m., begging the question of what we can toast to this summer. The answer? Everything.