Best oysters (outdoors)

If the world is your oyster, you can't do better than Wellfleet oysters: round and succulent, not huge, not briny, but brimming with that uncanny flavor, slightly salty, slightly sexy. And guess where you can find the best Wellfleet oysters -- in Wellfleet! Take a left off Route 6 at the sign that says WELLFLEET CENTER AND HARBOR, then at the next fork in the road, take a left at the Harbor sign (easy to miss the sign but not the fork) and wind your way until you come to the marina and the beautiful bay embraced by those surreal dunes. Across the street from the free parking is the Bookstore & Restaurant Seafood Grill, which has its own grant for shellfish. Sit on the terrace or the upper deck and look out over the bay. Order an Ipswich Ale. The hamburgers are terrific, but what you came for are the Bookstore's own perfectly shucked oysters. You can buy heaven for $6.95 (six oysters) or $13.50 (a dozen). Bet you can't stop at one (dozen, that is). And there really is a bookstore.

Bookstore & Restaurant Seafood Grill, 50 Kendrick Avenue, Wellfleet, (508) 349-3154.