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Title
The Mews Restaurant & Café
Description
In 1961 Nicky and Ray Wells took a shell of a structure and created a yet to be named restaurant at 359 Commercial Street. After some research they discovered this structure was once a stable where horse-drawn carts carried oysters from the harbor to Commercial Street. It was down a courtyard behind another building ... a mews! That's how we got our name.
In the '60's the Provincetown Mews Wine and Food Tasting Society was formed allowing the restaurant to serve liquor. The original sign depicting this hangs in the Cafe.
We moved to this location in May 1993 and brought with us several antiques. The carved mahogany panels in the Café crafted in 1892 were once part of the president's private secretary's office of the Prudential Insurance Company in Newark, New Jersey. The front part of the bar is made up of panels including a sliding door on its side also from that same building. This largest building in that state at the time was a modernistic marvel. Unfortunately it was demolished in the late '50's. Photos of this building are at the bar. Ask the bartender or the waiter to bring them to you. While we don't know where the red glass panels in the Cafe came from, the historian at A&P Supermarkets said they are not from old A&P stores as we originally thought. Any ideas of your own?
