The Nantucket Restaurant is a short slow burn that is amazing!! I love the three sisters and loved that each were facing different issues but were there for each other. I thought this book was such a good cozy summer read.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

There were a lot of things that I liked about this book, but my favorite was the way the author captured the feeling of being in Nantucket. I felt like I was transported there!

I loved the sister theme to this story and how they teenaged up and moved to Nantucket to run the restaurant their grandma left behind. I could just picture the way Nantucket looked and it made me want to transport myself there. This was such a cozy and feel good read.

When their eloped grandmother dies, she leaves her restaurant to her three granddaughters, with the caveat that they keep it and work there for a year. All three knew it was their family’s favorite restaurant, but did not know their grandmother owned it. Emma, Mandy and Jill are all facing their own personal issues, but get along well together and are anxious to be successful. The chef at the restaurant is also part of the deal, getting his 1/4 if all goes well. I’m not sure it is a book I would rave about, but it was a pleasant and quick read. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

I enjoyed the setting, the characters, and the story, but found it was very slow. Three sisters inherit their grandmother's restaurant and have to keep it open and running for a year. Lots of life changes and decisions for the sisters.

My First read from this author and won't be my last beautiful story of 3 sisters who come together on Nantucket for their Grams death and the beautiful legacy she leaves them and how it and their being together change's their lives for the better. A really heartwarming read! Thank you to Netgalley, Sourcebooks Landmark and the Author Pamela Kelley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Things I enjoyed:
Lighthearted
Family
Sisters
Foodie

This is my second book I have read by author Pamela Kelley. It was a short book yet it took me forever to finish. It was a slow burn story about three sisters who inherit a restaurant after the passing of their beloved grandmother. I enjoyed the setting and all the food talk. The perfect backdrop for a summer beach read…

Liked it! Felt like a food tour of Nantucket. Easy to read and a great beach read, especially if you love the Cape and Islands.

Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this ARC,

I didn't finish the book, so this is just a placeholder rating.

I read about 30% of The Nantucket Restaurant and just could not get invested. I really wanted to get sucked into a summery read on Nantucket, but the writing didn't pull me in and the storyline felt very predictable, almost cringey (again, I didn't finish, but I have a pretty good idea about how it ended). Thank you nonetheless for the eARC!

I wanted to read this book because I loved the cover. It was a quick read, which is what I was looking for in this book. This is my first book written by Pamela Kelley, and I will definitely be grabbing more of her books. The characters are relateable.

This book isn’t my usual genre, but I did enjoy it!

The story follows three sisters who’ve inherited a restaurant after their grandmother passes away.

The plot follows the sisters on their journey of restaurant ownership and marriage struggles.

While there are some heavy topics a few times, this was still a feel-good story although I wish it dived a little deeper. At times it felt like the scenes mostly focused around the food served in their restaurant with no real character depth.

Overall, I enjoyed it and might try this author again.

The Nantucket Restaurant is a great book to read by the pool. It is fast, easy and satisfying. I actually didn't realize this was re-print but as I was reading the familiarity kept niggling at me and it turns out I had read it years earlier. This was just as good the second time round.

The Nantucket Restaurant is the first book in Pamela Kelley’s series of the same name. The beloved grandmother of the three O’Toole sisters has passed away leaving them her Nantucket home as they might have anticipated but are quite surprised when they discover their Grams was the owner of Mimi’s Place, a favored Nantucket restaurant, along with the head chef Paul Taylor, who had been working with Grams for many years. There is, however, a caveat to the inheritance. The three sisters must be there and work at the restaurant before they can make any decision to sell or their shares will revert to Paul for a full year.

For Mandy that is no issue as she and her husband Cody and two children, Brooke and Blake, are island residents. It proves to be no problem for Emma as she is just finalizing her divorce from Peter and at loose ends so moving back to Nantucket from the west will give her purpose and focus. For Jill, who co-owns an executive search company in NYC with Billy, her best friend, working remotely and commuting back to New York a couple of times a month allows her to hold up her end of the deal.

As the four partners devise a working schedule, make updates to the dining room, the menu, and the advertising, business improves and things move along smoothly until injuries take away an integral part of the kitchen staff and infidelity strikes home life. These, and other twists make up the many facets of the story. I did enjoy this book and do recommend it!

The premise of this sounded really interesting. I loved how different the sisters were. The writing just didn't hold me. The dialogue didn't sound real at all, it sounded like a bunch of strangers talking when it was supposed to be sisters, and in general the dialogue didn't flow at all. I wanted this to be like an Elin Hilderbrand book but it fell flat. Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for this ARC!

I really loved the stories of sisters Mandy, Emma and Jill and how they are interwoven into their grandma's restaurant on Nantucket. They all had relationship issues to figure out and maybe new men in their lives to enjoy! I relished watching it all unfold and all the drama as they navigated learning the ropes of Mimi's Place. This is a fun summer beach read and I will definitely be looking for more by Pamela Kelley. Some of the recipes used at the restaurant I would love to try myself!

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review. All opinions are my own.

Publication date: 10 June 2025

Thanks to an ARC copy of this book through NetGalley, I had the pleasure of escaping to Nantucket and meeting 3 sisters who come together for a year as part of their grandmother’s last wishes to run a restaurant. Just a fun, summer read!

I love to start my summer with a Pamela Kelley novel and this one was so heartwarming. Three sisters come back to Nantucket to help run the restaurant that was left to them by their grandmother left them. There is a chef who has been running the place but some new blood seems to get it going again. I love a book with three sisters because I grew up in that dynamic. One sister moves back, one already lives there and the other has a job and commutes back and forth. They must work at the restaurant for one year in order to sell it at the end of the year. This was a quick read, but did not have a lot to keep me coming back. The stories around all three women were heartfelt for sure. I love a cozy book in the summer and this one fit that bill. Thank you to #NetGalley for the ARC.

This is my first Pamela Kelley read and I found it to be an ok, but enjoyable, read. It’s easy to follow, but it was a bit slow paced for me.

Thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark for my advanced copy of The Nantucket Restaurant by Pamela Kelley.

I enjoy Pamela Kelley's books and I really enjoyed this book about three sistes who inherit a Nantucket restaurant and need to run it together for one year before they can move on, as they each are at their own crossroads in life.

This was a great book to read at the beach - I enjoyed the relationship between the sisters and them working through their individual challenges. The Nantucket setting is always a favorite.

Three sisters lose their beloved grandmother, who leaves them a Nantucket Restaurant with a stipulation. The girls' lives intertwine as they learn to run this establishment. The story exemplifies what many people endure, and the sisters help each other through it all.

The characters are relatable. The scene is in a slower paced life in Nantucket. The description of the dishes and wine described in this story left my mouth watering!! A good beach read for those lazy summer days.

Thank you, NetGalley, and SOURCEBOOKS Landmark for the advanced reader's copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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