Red’s Eats Main & Water Sts. Wiscasset, ME 207-882-6128; hollyeats.com/Reds.htm They pile on the lobster at Red’s. And the harmonious interaction of that fresh, cold meat, just barely mayo-dabbed, with the warm toasted bun underneath — well, it just sings of summer!
Maine Diner 2265 Post Rd. (Rte. 1) Wells, ME 207-646-4441; mainediner.com You don’t need a shell or a sauce. All you need is a pound of lobster meat, plenty of butter, and crushed Ritz cracker crumbs. Put those three into a casserole dish, bake, and serve. At the Maine Diner, timing and proportions are key, […]
Legal Sea Foods 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA (and 29 other East Coast locations) 617-864-3400; legalseafoods.com Although many places offer stuffed lobster, we were bowled over by Legal’s generous scallop-and-shrimp take on it (no crumbs). Add in those big chunks of lobster, and you’ve got a seafood meal supreme.
Video: See Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps discuss some of these best food places on NECN’s “TV Diner”. Since New England is the birthplace of this young nation of ours, it makes sense that it’s also the origin of some of our favorite foods, from turkey dinners to blueberry pancakes. Some of the dishes […]
In our world, Jasper White is the king of New England. We may be a bit deferential, but this is the chef who made anadama bread, clam chowder, and johnnycakes cool again after years of embarrassing teases that New England food was no good. His latest, The Summer Shack Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Shore […]
By Patricia Harris and David Lyon We’ve been as guilty as anyone of barely slowing down as we’ve driven through Pittsfield on our way from Tanglewood in Lenox to Mass MoCA in North Adams. In years past, Pittsfield seemed to be merely a crossroads with shuttered retail shops and all the untidy business of Berkshire […]
Polly Bannister first went to Block Island in 1970, and has returned many times since. Take her advice for dining and shopping and you will want to return many times, too. See the outstanding photography of Block Island photographer Malcolm Greenaway before you take your trip. Dining The Atlantic Inn Restaurant, High St. Elegant dining […]
FORTUNATE QUIRKS OF geography have saved both the region of western Maine from Bethel to Fryeburg and the area from the New Hampshire border to the Waterfords from condo developers and the tourism industry. Most travelers passing through, usually on Routes 2 or 302, are hustling from the tourist meccas of coastal Maine to those […]
I’m standing in the parking lot of a large RV dealership south of Boston, notebook in hand, scribbling furiously as our rental agent points out every button and lever on the 33-foot Winnebago we’ve rented for a weekend of October leaf-peeping up the Maine coast. I have a bad feeling. Two hours in, and we’ve […]
By Wayne Curtis and Christina Tree The Tidewater Motel, Vinalhaven Finding a motel on an island an hour’s ferry ride offshore is an odd thing. Weren’t motels designed for cars, and islands for boats? Anyway, there it is, and what makes it even more appealing, and unusual, is that the name “Tidewater” is no flight […]
Without a school, a year-round island would lose its families, and then its character.
We are Cape people. Every year, for about the past 20, we’ve returned for a week to a shabby cabin with a galley kitchen, lousy TV reception, and a deck with the proverbial “distant water view” of Wellfleet Harbor. Like the bobolinks that return each year from South America to their favorite New England hayfield, […]
