Mark P.
Yelp
It was "girls" night out for my wife and two sister-in-laws, so my brother and I decided to go to one of our favorite restaurants--Fin (at 800 Main Street, Dennis). We've been to Fin quite a few times over the years. That stretch of 6A from Yarmouth Port to Dennis is filled with a good many quality restaurants, but Fin is easily among the best. We often take out of town guests to Fin (or The Pheasant, just down the road a few blocks) for a fine dining meal. The food is always delicious along with being creative, allowing the quality of the main ingredients to be the stars of the dish (instead of being overwhelmed by sauces or sides), and the service is always attentive without being overwhelming. We were seated on the second floor which is a very comfortable space, if somewhat less bright than the main indoor or outdoor dining areas. But it's also a lot more private and less congested than the downstairs dining areas. Despite the crowds we were promptly seated at our reservation time of 7 pm. We ordered drinks, for me, something new, a Yuzu Martini (vodka and yuzu), very refreshing and my brother ordered a bourbon Manhattan. Both were excellent and served is well through the meal. Eating out with my brother is always a treat, especially since he has an excellent palate and has extensive experience working as a chef at many restaurants over the years around the Cape. He loves to order multiple appetizers/starters instead of the conventional app and an entree. This way you get to taste more dishes without getting overly full. I should point out two things. First, about 85% of the dishes listed on Fin's online "sample menu" were on the menu we were given this evening for those who might wonder about the accuracy of the sample menu. Second, there were many specials--3 appetizer specials and 4 entrée specials. As the name of the restaurant implies, Fin is a seafood forward restaurant and the quality of their seafood is absolutely first-rate. My brother ordered the bluefin tuna pate', the oyster stew, and the fried squash blossoms stuffed with a sea scallop sausage. I ordered, more conventionally, the fried squash blossoms and the bluefin tune with bok choy, Yakisoba noodles, black garlic soy, and fiddlehead ferns. Wow, the food was fabulous and because we're brothers, as opposed to dining with just a friend, a mother-in-law, or a date (lol), we had the chance to try all of the dishes. There was one hiccup with the presentation of the dishes. My main arrived before my app and my brother's oyster stew arrived after his fried squash blossoms. The wait person manager on the floor came over right away to apologize for the mix up, but it honestly didn't matter to us in the least since we were enjoying the flow of the meal and we did make things a tad more difficult for the kitchen by ordering multiple apps in the first place. Two final observations. First, there are so many wonderful things to sample on their menu which you just don't see at most Cape restaurants, e.g., bluefin tuna pate' (a special), bluefin tune itself, big eye tuna (a special), and whole black sea bass, among others. Second, this is yet another fine dining restaurant which does not seem to be suffering from a staffing shortage. There were plenty of staff on the second floor to provide quality service--our main waitperson, the wait person manager, as well as at least two food runners. Final point, for the quality and variety of the seafood as well as the various ways in which it is prepared, we have always found the prices at Fin to be exceedingly reasonable. Many other notable places on Cape charge far more for far less.