Some friends of mine introduced me to a restaurant in Redwood city which was founded by a couple who moved here from Portland ME. And like me, they were missing the little touches of home. Such as authentic New England seafood.
Now, I know what you're saying. New England is as well known for it's cooking as England is. But when you're far away from home, you even begin to miss the less attractive points of home.
So since California restaurants do New England Fish and Chips like they do New York Style Deli's. (Victorian chairs, lace doilies, fresh cut flowers, and creme' sauce on sandwiches made with Sourdough gourmet rolls.)
When we walked into this place, I was greeted with the vision of ordinary pine benches and picnic tables, tin buckets full of oyster crackers. (Imported from Vermont by the way) and bottles of vinegar and mustard. Along with the prerequisite lobster buoys and fishing nets stuck to the wall.
There were maps of the Maine coastline on the walls as well as bottles of Moxie on the counter.
Moxie! They serve Moxie! I'm sold! This place has me head over heals in love!
None of my cohorts had ever heard of the stuff before, so after a brief history lecture on carbonated beverages in Pre-Coca Cola America, they ordered some bottles for themselves and asked me the well versed question, "You enjoy drinking cough syrup?"
Evidently, the couple who run this restaurant have seafood flown in daily, and it tastes spot on perfect to the seafood we used to get at Point Judith, Misquamicut, Portsmouth, Plymouth, or any other place along the seaboard which had a fishing pier and breakwater. And all this without the stench of diesel fuel to go along with it.
A dinner their ran about $20 a plate, but it was worth it to me. And I even took a bottle of Moxie to go.
Tony
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Now, if you could only get them to play a "Thunder Storms" CD for background music, all would be PERFECT! love, mom
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