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“Best Fine Dining on Martha's Vineyard”— Cape Cod Life, Silver, 2004
“If you go to Martha's Vineyard... nothing beats the Beach Plum Inn...” — Boston Magazine |
"The Beach Plum Inn, rebuilt after a 2000 fire, is fresh and modern. Several cottages surround the main building; there are 12 rooms in all. From the dining room in the main building, the village is visible through carefully cropped trees. Sunsets are a thing to behold. James McDonough has run the kitchen for 12 years. Having previously cooked in kitchens on the Jersey Shore, in Alaska and on St. Thomas in the Caribbean, he can be trusted to know fresh fish. He leverages the Beach Plum's proximity to the fish and fishermen of Menemsha to his best advantage. His pan-roasted hazelnut-crusted halibut, with Marsala beurre blanc, proves his respect for the natural succulence of fresh fish by not obscuring its taste with too many nuts. If his grilled lobster topped with a caviar cream sauce is on the menu, order it quickly, before it disappears."
"You are not a Kennedy. Your chances of getting asked to the family’s up-island compound are, frankly, slim. So what? You can still live like American royalty at the nearby Beach Plum Inn. Its 11 rooms and cottages are flush with shabby-chic furnishings and Egyptian cotton linens. Its BYOB restaurant is lauded for upscale surf and turf. And the view of the surrounding gardens and Menemsha Harbor is, in a word, unrivaled."
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“Creme brulee doesn't come much closer to perfection than here.”— Fodor's |
