Food: Food trucks! Restaurants from around Nantucket have food trucks lined up, so you can get small bites throughout your day at Cisco. Tacos, oysters, street corn, scallops, fries, pretzels, poke... just to name a few. Each summer there are new trucks and new food choices, so there's always something fresh and exciting to try when you return each year.
Drinks: Cisco is my favorite brewery I've ever been to because it is actually 3 places in one. Cisco Brewers, Nantucket Vineyard, and Triple Eight Distillery. This means you can get a beer, glass of wine, and a shot all at the same time (you know what I mean). They make specialty drinks combining some of them: a beer with a liquor floater on top for example. Cisco beer is so crisp and perfect for summer. They are very easy to drink and have lots of different flavors with fun names and designs. Cisco reminds me of summer because I can drink it anytime, any place.
Decor: What also makes Cisco my favorite is the layout. It's basically a big circle space lined with the brewery, distillery, and vineyard mixed between the food trucks, sitting areas with games, live music, gift shop, a garden, and plenty of outdoor seating and picnic tables. The thing with Cisco is it's an event. You come for the day. We like to get there when it opens because it gets crowded because it's so popular. Get there early, claim your table and get your food to avoid some of the lines, but then take your sweet ol' time trying out each of the drink options. Sit out in the sun or under the tent once it starts to get too hot, but I'm telling you, this is the place to go with your friends over the summer. You're in for a treat.
My fav: Ideal day- arrive when it opens at 11am. Claim a large picnic table for everyone. Start out at the vineyard and do a tasting. Grab a glass to take back to the table (probably a Frose). Round 1 of food trucks- probably some tacos and rice. Next drink: The Blue Lady (Grey Lady Beer and a blueberry shooter on top). Walk around to get a feel for the brewery grounds: check out the gift shop, the garden, the food options, the distillery (I personally lay off the liquor and only add it to top my beers). Round 2 of food trucks- poke bowl, scallops, Mac and cheese egg roll (yes it was as good as you can imagine). Beer flight. Listen to live music. Then it's basically a back and forth of drink and food trucks until you can't eat or drink anymore and the car arrives to pick you up.
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