With one week until Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of Summer for many, several local favorite restaurants are opening their doors this weekend, so we can enjoy these places before it gets to crazy on the Island.  Here are four favs opening their doors this weekend. Kennebec Ave in Oak Bluffs, A Mini Restaurant Row ...

Expect Anything…..the mantra for PIKNIK, and it is so true. PIKNIK has been a fixture in the Arts District of Oak Bluffs for over 15 years.  It is the kind of store that makes you long for things they carry. Owner Michael Hunter has an innate ability to find the extraordinary for home and self. Simply walk in the sto...

When I was out and about yesterday, I ran into a number of friends, and everyone was talking about all the things opening this week.  Each year, I forget that the first week in April is a big opening week for a number of things with even more to follow throughout the month.  It’s nice to have the longer days and more thin...

Just in time for summer, this luxury compound is new to the Martha’s Vineyard rental market. Our Featured Vineyard Rental Property in Katama has a 4-bedroom, 3.5-bath main house, and a separate 1-bedroom, 1-bathroom guest house with full kitchen. [nggallery id=35] This brand new classic Martha’s Vineyard Gambrel features deluxe ame...

With the first day of Spring, March 20th right around the corner, it’s nice to watch the Vineyard come out of its state of muted hibernation.  Though our Winter wasn’t terrible, many of us are just ready for it to be over, and there is a noted level of excitement all around.  Luckily, there are lots of things we love and ...

Future Home of 11 North A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the new Vineyard restaurant replacing David Ryan’s on North Water Street in Edgartown.  It seems as though I may have been misinformed about a couple of things, but I’m now back on the right track. The chef from Boston’s Sonsie, Bill Poirier, will not be opening t...

With the days staying lighter longer, and the crocuses and daffodils in bloom at the Edgartown Library, you can feel Edgartown starting to wake from it’s mini-hibernation.  Sprucing up for the Summer has begun in a number of stores. Alchemy has opened back up. And sunny days are a reason once again, to walk to town for lunch. ...

People ask us all the time, “What’s there to do on Martha’s Vineyard in the off season?” My On Point Blog collegaue Guinevere Cramer has been exploring that question in a number of posts this winter for all our off-island friends. But when when it’s 55 to 60-degrees and sunny, how about a little golf? There were more than a few go...

Some years it seems as though time stands still on Martha’s Vineyard, but not this year!  After blogging about the restaurant, store, and business changes going on in Vineyard Haven, people started talking to me about what’s happening in Oak Bluffs too.  As an OB resident, I cannot tell you how happy I am to see new ...

Since 1996, people have been going to Martha’s Vineyard Tile Company for their tile needs.  Annie and Jeremy Bradshaw, the owners, are true Island icons.  Not only do they have the most extensive and unique collection of tile, including their very own line, and tile made by local artists, they have their own TV show, Tile...