Choice is not an option at the latest addition to restaurant row in Oak Bluffs. The owners of Down Island put diners in the capable hands of chef Scott Cummings.

Seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, the small staff at Island Grown Initiative's Thimble Farm — now doing business as Island Grown Farm Hub at Thimble Farm — tends more than 30,000 square feet of greenhouses.

Jacqueline Foster wheeled rice bowls into Vineyard Haven last week in a teal and yellow truck. She had been on a food journey both on Island and off and has reached nirvana with Mangku Truck.

Vineyard native Chris Fischer will offer only the finest and freshest ingredients when The Covington opens its doors next Wednesday.

Garde East recently opened in the building that formerly housed The Blue Canoe. Chef Robert Sisca was sous chef at Le Bernard in in New York city and executive chef at Bistro du Midi in Boston.

The line wound around the block on Thursday evening as 900 ticket holding guests waited to enter the white tents next to the Old Whaling Church for the 31st Taste of the Vineyard party, the annual benefit for the Preservation Trust.