Someone wrote: >I am going to Portland for a week (and takinga few drives through >Freeport and the South-west area)...any suggestions? > >PROBLEM.....I am allergic to shellfish and tend to eat "lighter" foods >(i.e. no steaks) > >BONUS POINTS....I am addicted to coofee: any suggestions for good coffee >places (I haven't had any luck going through the coffee newsgroups and getting >an answer despite many, many postings!) > >Thanks in advance. > >Vanilla There's a beautiful restaurant in the woods just north of Ogunquit called Arrows, in a 200-year-old house. It was pretty expensive, but it was by far the best meal we ate in Maine that wasn't on a bun. >
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* Many good to very good restaurants in the Old Port area, you can't go too wrong. * Uncle Billy's, just across the bridge to So. Portland for funky * Capt. Newicks in So. Portland for the best (believe it or not) fried seafood; definitely get the haddock. * Freeport is only sufferable after 2am and on Christmas evening. - JOHN WATSON [email removed] (Delaware)
John W. wrote: >* Many good to very good restaurants in the Old Port area, you can't go >too wrong. >* Uncle Billy's, just across the bridge to So. Portland for funky >* Capt. Newicks in So. Portland for the best (believe it or not) fried >seafood; definitely get the haddock. >* Freeport is only sufferable after 2am and on Christmas evening. > I drove through Freeport yesterday and I concur. I can tolerate shopping malls that are nothing but outlet stores, but an entire CITY?? In three days in Maine and one in Boston, I admit I had forgotten how BAD the coffee is in NewEngland! In Portland, we followed our noses to the waterfront and found a number of little dives. We are addicted to fresh seafood and were astounded at the quality and low prices. I would suggest "Tiny" Bigman's. Take out only and part of a very fresh seafood market. Can't add anything to the non-seafood list, but there WAS a liberal/60-ish area as we followed Route 1 around the wetlands promenade with great old houses and into the business area again. Rob Lake [email removed]