Cranberry Cottage

Wareham, MA
(Wednesday, 08/21/2019)

(No official-type web-site.)


Place: Cranberry Cottage

Location: 246 Marion Road, Wareham, MA; 
phonicular contact: (774) 678-4593

Hours: open at 7:00am every day of the week

Meal: (me) Great Hill Omelette ~ Great Hill Blue[1] cheese, bacon (which was 86-ed, of course) and sliced apples, served with homefries and toast (I went with cinnamon-raisin); and, to drink, a cuppa (and two refillas) New England Coffee® (I did not ask which specific roast/blend, though)

(Once again, I did not write down what either Kerry or Sean ordered that morning. I seem to remember that they both liked whatever it was that they had to eat.)

https://www.newenglandcoffee.com/

(I do not know what Charlie Marie thinks about the combination of blue cheese and apples in an omelette, but she is a new local singer outta the Providence, RI area [yes, a Country-and/or-Western singer from the Island of Rhode, New England] and I always like to promote good new talent. The second song is my sister Sharon's favourite of Charlie's.)[2]


It has been a few years since I last ate at 
Cranberry Cottage (see last 'blog-entry from Saturday, September 17th, 2016). They had closed due to a fire back on September 1st, 2017 (which, if my Common Core Math is any good, is 'zackly two years ago today) and had just recently reopened in June of this year. The entire restaurant had to be rebuilt. It looks like it can seat about the same amount of customers as it had in the past (possibly a few tables less, but there are now many more booths all along one back curved wall). The nice thing about this restaurant is that it is just about a mile down the street (and then around the corner) from my mother's house in Wareham. It was my mother's favourite breakfast place in town. If I lived in Wareham, I can see it being Breakfastary Starting Rotation-worthy, but I still like Persy's Place and the Riverside Cafe a bit more.

In spite of the vehement protestations from both my cousins Cindy and Carmie, we had to check out this new-old restaurant. Cindy had warned us during breakfast just the day before that the noise-level and service were terrible. We decided to be the judges of our own breakfast fates, though.

Their menu looks to be about the same as it was in the past (I know this by comparing my last few 'blog-entries from there with their newly printed menus). This is another great little local place that offers many decent choices both for st*pid vegetarians and those that partake of the dead, decaying animal and fish flesh. 

They offer about twenty different omelettes ('cause twenty of the same omelettes really ain't much of a choice, nu?!)[3]. Here are a few that looked interesting:

Florentine ~ Swiss cheese, spinach and onion;

Irish ~ Cheddar cheese (I just hope it is an actual Irish Cheddar; we do not want to have the United Nations coming here to break up the omelette) and corned beef hash; 

Portuguese ~ cheese, linguiça, onion and tomato;

or

Philly Cheese Steak ~ cheese (they do not specify if this is Cheez Wiz or not), sliced beef, onion and pepper.

They also offer six different Eggs Benedict choices. I think that I might have talked either Sean or Kerry into ordering the New England Benedict (homemade [well, Cottage-made] fish cakes, English muffins, 2 poached eggs, Hollandaise sauce & homefries). 

There is another menu-section called Cottage Favorites that has a number of other interesting selections:

Chili Skillet ~ homemade (again, Cottage-made) chili, scrambled eggs, Cheddar cheese over homefries and toast;

Fireman's Toast ~ Texas toast topped with scrambled eggs, bacon, chili, beans and Cheddar cheese w/ homefries;

or 

New England Breakfast ~ 2 homemade (ditto on the Cottage-made), fishcakes, 2 eggs, baked beans, homefries and toast.

Additionally, they offer two different versions of a Stuffed French Toast with either an apple compote or a cranberry relish (which is what I had on a previous visit and really enjoyed). And the best thing is that you can get them to do a combo with two halves of both apple and cranberry.

Now, I know what you are thinking (and you really should be ashamed of yourself!): "But... blue cheese and apples... in an omelette?!" Well, I did not concoct this mess and it all works very nicely (if you like both blue cheese and apples, that is). The blue cheese melts extra creamy inside the omelette and the apples (I think they used Granny Smith) give it a nice crispy tartness. Their homefries were very good, too (I just wish I had a bit more of them on my plate).

I do not really remember exactly what they had to offer in the way of condimentary supplementation. I think that they had both Tabasaco® Brand Pepper Sauce (Original Red Sauce) and Frank's® RedHot® Original. I think I used some of the Frank's® on my potatoes and left the omelette unsupplementated.

I do not care what my cousin Cindy says, I highly recommend this place to anyone that might be down-the-Cape (or just down-the-Gateway-to-the-Cape) for a vacation.


Glen Bacon Scale Rating:
Great Hill Omelette ~ 6.7;
New England Coffee® ~ 6.8

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1. Great Hill Blue is manufactured just the next town westward from Wareham in the town of Marion (just follow the same road, Marion Road [Funny how that works out, huh?], that the restaurant is on).

https://www.greathillblue.com/

2. I saw Charlie Marie perform live one night last week while I was in the area. She was playing at a local country (but not western) club in Bellingham. She performed many of her own original songs as well as some famous covers (of note: Noel Yang's "Heart of Gold" [probably my favourite one from the ol' grunge-master] and a couple of old Fleetwood Mac songs, "Rhiannon" and another one that I have since forgotten).

http://charliemariemusic.com/

3. I think they were once thinking of calling the restaurant "International House of Many Omelettes", but someone from the local Republican Party Chapter pointed out that the initials would not be a very good idea in case Massachusetts ever becomes a Red State.