My husband does not eat seafood of any kind. This can be a challenge when we travel to places like Maine, when I want as much of it as I can possibly get. We were relieved to find that Mister Rain would not have to live on chicken fingers off the kids’ menu all week, as he did at other coastal destinations we have visited.
At the Waterfront restaurant in Camden, Maine, I had the best lobster roll of my life. my husband, a burger and fries. (Photo at the top of this story.)
My dinner at Ports Of Italy in Boothbay Harbor was salmon with artichokes and capers. My landlubber had spaghetti bolognese.
Have you ever met a lazy lobster? It is an entree that many eateries in Maine offer, and let’s immediately clarify that the lobster is not the lazy one, the diner is. The lobster meat is taken out of the shell and placed in a non-shallow pool of butter. At Robinson’s Wharf in Southport I started off with a cup of the New England clam chowder for obvious reasons (when in Rome and all that), prolonging the anticipation of my premier lazy lobster. When it arrived and I took my first bite, I wanted to cry. It was so good it has ruined me. It haunts me. I dream about it and not just when I am sleeping. Truth be told, the photo is hazy but I have to share it. Even in the midst of the mist my mouth is watering. Mister Rain had his own culinary delight, the prime rib special. If only it wasn’t interrupted by his visually impaired dining partner imploring him, repeatedly, to make sure she hadn’t missed any lobster swimming in the butter. Guess he wasn’t so lazy after all.
i discovered the best fried scallops of my life at Boothbay Lobster Wharf in Boothbay Harbor. We sat outside, over the water and everything about this late lunch / early dinner was what I had envisioned when I thought of my inaugural trip to Maine. My husband had a cheeseburger and took some wings home for a late snack since we wouldn’t be hungry for dinner. When we returned to our rental house, he surprised me with lobster macaroni and cheese. Ugh, more lobster. I couldn’t possibly . . .
The Tugboat restaurant in Boothbay Harbor brought more scrumptious lobster, five ounces for me to devour. Mister Rain ordered the New York strip steak. We both had corn on the cob, it surprised us to learn it had come from Georgia!
I know I’m sounding like a broken record, but I had the best calamari I have ever had at Harborside 1901 Bar & Grill, also in Boothbay Harbor. I also enjoyed a bowl of chowder while my husband had filet mignon.
I knew that I wanted to write about going to the land of seafood and my non-seafood eating Mister Rain. With this in mind, I took photos of our meals, not something I normally do. I know that this is a “thing”, taking pictures of your food and posting them all over social media. I kept saying to my husband, “We need it for the Gram.” I am pretty sure I am the oldest person to ever utter those words.
While we finish this story, how about a cannoli from Ports of Italy?
We had a wonderful week in Maine in every regard. The truth is, however, I would go back there just for the food. It may be the placebo effect, knowing the lobster came out of the water mere hours before it is placed in front of you at the table, but I do not recall ever experiencing food that testsed as fresh as the seafood did here. I honestly think about it more than is probably healthy, but I am good with that. It is a gift to have enjoyed something that much.
As for Mister Rain, he made out well with the options provided by the great restaurants we went to. His cardiologist might not think so, with all the red meat, but there was not a chicken finger in sight. (Wings don’t count!) Who knew that hamburgers come from the sea? And why aren’t the buns soggy?
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