This wasn't a great fusion, but it was fun. Chicken tagine was served under a real, conical tagine. The chicken was quite tender and juicy, and both it and the couscous with pine nuts underneath were heavily flavored with fresh lemon. An authentic tagine would be more complex and stew-like, but fresh lemon is a wonderful flavor if you're having only one. Vintage years are listed for all, a nicety not widely observed these days.
Desserts are really a treat.
It is the heavy kind, perhaps in honor of the New Yorkers who summer on the lower Cape. Service at the Blacksmith Shop is sometimes very helpful, but it did lag when the room filled up on a Friday night. The restaurant is situated in a couple of informal rooms, with an active bar next door. It's hard to tell that these much-renovated spaces were once the eponymous smithy, but we are reminded by some black iron lamps and primitive tools, along with whimsical sculptures and found objects. The Blacksmith Shop pays subtle homage to many Lower Cape themes without overstating anything, and I am not overstating the outstanding flavors, either.