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Boston Globe
13-06-2025
- Boston Globe
First light to last light: The arc of a perfect summer day in Gloucester
There's no shame in settling down on either beach for the morning, then packing up your beach chairs and following the sun. But if you're feeling more ambitious, Gloucester has plenty to fill the day. By the time you've walked the length of Good Harbor Beach, Cape Ann Coffees will be opening at 6 a.m. At the other end of the harbor, Mom's Kitchen starts dishing pancakes and eggs at 5 a.m. What can we say? Fisherfolk start early. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up A trail map to Dogtown stands at the parking lot on Dogtown Road. David Lyon While the rest of Gloucester is waking up, walk off the breakfast carbs by hiking the trails in Dogtown. Every town deserves a mysterious, spooky wood, and Dogtown is Gloucester's. Site of the 17th-century settlement, the ghost town sits atop a glacial moraine. Trees and shrubs have overgrown the vast boulder field since this inland village was abandoned about 200 years ago as Gloucester sought its living from the sea. Yet cellar holes and patches of ornamental flowering plants and fruit trees persist as silent witnesses to lives once lived here. The 'Babson Boulder Trail″ is the most popular way to explore Dogtown. Look for massive stones inscribed with inspirational words — 'Truth,″ 'Kindness,″ 'Prosperity,″ and so on. They are the work of Depression-era unemployed stone cutters hired by Gloucester native Roger Babson. Advertisement This contemporary wetu sits next to the 1710 White-Ellery saltbox on the Cape Ann Museum Green campus in Gloucester. David Lyon Gloucester may be one of America's oldest European settlements, but the English were hardly the first to live here. At the Cape Ann Museum Green campus, located between Dogtown and the Route 128 traffic circle, a contemporary art wetu (a traditional Indigenous dwelling) and a stone mush8n (a stone version of an Indigenous dugout canoe) nod to earlier occupants of the land. The brightly painted wetu contrasts with the weathered clapboards of the adjacent 1710 White-Ellery saltbox house. Although the downtown location of the museum remains closed for renovation until 2026, CAM Green offers tours of the White-Ellery House and mounts changing exhibitions in its soaring, light-filled gallery building. Carvings on the "Babson boulders" in Dogtown exhort passersby to admirable actions. David Lyon By now you've probably caught on that Gloucester is a pretty special place. So it's no surprise that the glorious light has long drawn artists to town. Starting in the mid-19th century, artists have flocked to Rocky Neck, a small peninsula poking out into Gloucester Harbor. It claims to be 'one of America's oldest working art colonies.″ Rocky Neck in Gloucester is a well-established art colony. David Lyon Rocky Neck is a compact spit, easily walked from the municipal parking lot on Rocky Neck Avenue. Check out the former studio of Marsden Hartley at 9 Rocky Neck Ave., now a private home. He spent summers here in the 1930s and often painted the glacial moraine of Dogtown. The former studio of A.W. Buhler at 17 Rocky Neck Ave. is now a gallery. Buhler is best remembered for his painting 'Man at the Wheel,″ the inspiration for Gloucester's iconic Fisherman's Memorial statue. Take a short detour to 2 Clarendon St. to see the house that Edward Hopper painted as 'The Mansard Roof.″ Or just wander the galleries and shops, including the sleek gallery and wine bar called Salted Cod Arthouse, and pop into any open studios. You will see a lot of paintings of boats, harbors, and broader seascapes. Gloucester is, after all, also America's oldest working fishing port. Advertisement Edward Hopper modeled the image in "The Mansard Roof″ on this Rocky Neck home. David Lyon Downtown knits together Gloucester's maritime and artistic histories. As you wrap around the head of the inner harbor, you'll pass the site where Hopper painted 'Tall Masts″ in 1912. Hopper was hardly the first artist to be entranced by Gloucester's waterfront. One of your first stops on a walking tour along the harbor will be a three-story Gothic Revival stone house on a high hill above the working port. Looking almost like a waterfront watchtower, it was designed by Fitz Henry Lane, the Gloucester-born artist whose radiant images of glowing sky and restless seas first drew other painters to the seaport. He lived and worked here from 1849 until his death in 1865. Just feet away, Alfred Duca's evocative 1996 bronze statue shows the painter perched on a rock, sketchbook in hand, looking out on the harbor. Advertisement The Fisherman's Memorial, often called ‶Man at the Wheel,″ stands on Western Avenue in Gloucester. David Lyon Also on Harbor Loop, just below the Lane House, Maritime Gloucester is a living museum of the city's saltwater history. In the Dory Shop, Geno Mondello continues to build historic Gloucester fishing dories when he's not tending his 200 lobster traps. One of the founders of Maritime Gloucester, Mondello says it takes five to six weeks to build a boat. Just below the shop, the oldest operating marine railway in the country still hauls ships out of the water for repairs, just as it has since 1849. At an adjacent pier, the pinky schooner Ardelle offers daily public sails until October. The Ardelle offers daily harbor sails from the Maritime Gloucester wharf. David Lyon A little farther west along the harbor, Seven Seas Wharf has served the fishing industry for more than 350 years. It's still used to stow and repair nets, fuel up for offshore trips, and unload lobsters and fish. The Gloucester House Restaurant dominates the wharf. Enjoy seafood in the rough from the takeout window of Blue Collar Lobster Company while looking out at the fishing vessels and Cape Pond Ice. Poignant tributes are cut into the blocks at the base of the Fishermen's Wives Memorial. David Lyon Continue west to 18 Western Ave., the building that Hopper painted in watercolors in 1926 as 'Anderson's House″ (owned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston). The dwelling sits just above the Town Landing at the end of Pavilion Beach. It's a short walk along Western Avenue to the 'Man at the Wheel″ statue based on Buhler's painting. It's the focus of the Fisherman's Memorial, where bronze plaques list the names of those lost at sea. Keep walking across Blynman Bridge (also painted by Hopper) to the more recent statue of the Fishermen's Wives Memorial, which notes the sacrifices of fishermen's wives and families. This side of the bridge is planted with striking flower beds that flourish in the diffuse seaside light. Advertisement The family depicted in the Fishermen's Wives Memorial looks out to sea, waiting. David Lyon Be sure to return to Pavilion Beach for sunset. It doesn't face perfectly west, but the setting sun illuminates the wet beach with a shimmering slick of color. Clouds above the city blaze with red and gold. The opposing horizon beyond the Eastern Point Light glows rosy pink. Suddenly, darkness falls. Then you can call it a day. Patricia Harris and David Lyon can be reached at . Sunset lights the sky and glistens on the sands of Gloucester's Pavilion Beach. David Lyon If you go … Cape Ann Motor Inn 33 Rockport Road 978-281-2900, Double room $295 Cape Ann Coffees 86 Bass Ave. 978-282-1717, Mon.-Sat. 6 a.m.-1 p.m. Baked goods, sandwiches $3.50-$10.75 Mom's Kitchen 29 Commercial Ave. 978-282-4444, Thu.-Tue. 5 a.m.-noon. Eggs, griddle fare, and sandwiches $4-$13 Salted Cod Arthouse 53 Rocky Neck Ave. 978-282-0917, Open daily 11:30 a.m-10 p.m. Wine bar menu of small plates, soups, flatbreads, and panini $6-$16 Blue Collar Lobster Company at Gloucester House Restaurant 63 Rogers St. 978-283-1812, Open daily 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Chowder, snacks, and seafood $8-$42, lobster market price Dogtown Park at access lot on Dogtown Road off Cherry Lane and follow Dogtown Babson Boulder Trail Map: Rocky Neck Art Trail map: CAM Green 13 Poplar St. 978-283-0455, Open Wed.-Sun. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free Maritime Gloucester 23 Harbor Loop 978-281-0470, Gallery and aquarium open Fri.-Mon. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., adults $15; seniors, military, students, teachers $10 David Lyon can be reached at
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Greenacres landmark restaurant serves everything from "biscuits and gravy to duck a l'orange"
Though regrettably overlooked in our recent list of iconic Palm Beach County restaurants, Mom's Kitchen in Greenacres definitely fits the bill, having been around for at least 40 years. This classic restaurant has been in the same location on Lake Worth Road since 1980 and is now in its fifth decade of serving delicious meals. (While several of the staff have been around for decades, Mom's is operating under a "new" owner, who bought the place in 2021. ) The menu at Mom's is massive and incredibly diverse. Owner Alison Cohen said "At Mom's Kitchen you can have anything from biscuits and gravy to duck à l'orange." When she says anything, it's not much of an exaggeration. The breakfast and lunch menu alone is eight pages. All dishes served at Mom's Kitchen follow the house slogan of "Homemade from the Heart." Again this is not hyperbole as Cohen stresses that they make everything from scratch including all of their sauces. Their turkey dinner is one of the most popular dishes. The turkey is roasted in-house and carved to order. Their rigatoni ala vodka, meatloaf, pot roast and even liver and onions are all favorites as well. On the breakfast side, the country fried steak with sausage gravy is a huge hit along with the two egg breakfast which garners some of its popularity with the choice of meat option that includes steak, ham, chorizo, corned beef hash and even pork chops. There are also three-egg omelettes, pancakes, waffles and much more. One specialty dish is the strawberry cheesecake waffle. It's made with strawberry waffle batter and is served with strawberries on top, cheesecake icing and whipped cream. Handling a menu as diverse as Mom's Kitchen requires serious skill. Though executive chef Paulin Ornelas has been at the restaurant for the past 29 years and proven his mettle, Cohen said that when hiring a new chef a "working interview is always required." Taking a page from the movie "The Hundred-Foot Journey" starring Helen Mirren, Cohen says she always has them make her an omelette. "We customize everything for our customers. You gotta have mad skills if you're going to work at Mom's Kitchen," she said. That vetting process has definitely paid off as Cohen beamed "I have amazing talent in the kitchen." She says she also has top-notch servers, some who've been there over 20 years. That hard work and dedication is not overlooked. Cohen said that she celebrates all their birthdays and everyone gets a year-end bonus. "I treat them all like family." Cohen bought Mom's Kitchen in February 2021 with then fiancé Greg Tria. She said they'd eaten at the local landmark a few years earlier and were so impressed that Tria remarked that he'd "love to own a restaurant like this." As fate would have it, the owners were also their neighbors, and Cohen joked that it took several years to get them to sell — at a historic rough patch in the industry. "Who buys a restaurant during Covid... crazy people," Cohen joked. Tria worked the front of the restaurant and Alison, who was also working as an executive assistant to a high-net-worth individual, handled the financial aspects. Sadly, Tria died in November 2023. Cohen said he was an incredibly kind and gregarious person and that, though they'd only owned Mom's Kitchen less than three years, his funeral service was standing room only and packed with Mom's customers. Now the sole owner of Mom's Kitchen, Cohen said she dropped her day job and now runs the entire operation. Though she said it's not an easy job by any stretch she's focused on keeping Mom's Kitchen "A super-friendly, welcoming place. That's very important to me, number one." That drive is paying off. Cohen says they have customers who have been coming to the restaurant for a lifetime. "They came here as children and have come back with their children and grandchildren." What: Mom's Kitchen Where: 7478 Lake Worth Road, Greenacres Hours: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday Information: Eddie Ritz is a journalist at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at eritz@ Help support our journalism. Subscribe today. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Mom's Kitchen on Lake Worth Road in Greenacres features a massive menu
