Woodman's Really???

I never liked the clams at Woodmans. The Clam Box is much better.

Sidenote - On a report last summer on Cronicle, Mike Barnacle reported on three places for clams and the clear winner was the Clam Box. (Woodmans also said they still use LARD for frying - maybe that explains why the clams taste so heavy and greasy.)

JN>  From: [email removed] (Jerry Natowitz)
JN>  Subject: Re: Woodman's Really???
JN>  In article ,
William H. wrote:
JN>  >I hope I am spelling the name correctly.  I was told to go to this place JN>  >for the best fried calms in NE.  "It's a great place" many others JN>  >remarked.  So, my wife and I took some friends there and found nothing JN>  >but GREASE. JN>  My wife may divorce me, but I have to agree.

I remain rather fond of Woodman's, although depending on the level of attention of the high-school students behind the frahkell you might get light lovelies of which you can easily eat a pint or two or the ones you recall, whose main charm is that they coat your mouth with grease so you don't want more than 2 or 3 clams at the most (saving many hours on that Stairmaster or Nordic Trak).

In that area I found the Clam Box up the road a few miles to be more than acceptable (a little austere - NOT ENOUGH salt and grease) and Farnham's quite good (but there, the xenophobic and John-Birchist slogans on the walls put me off my feed a bit).

JN>  Revere Beach.  Anyone know what place I speak of?

Kelly's - now expanded with a gigantic new location on Rte 1 in Saugus. Last time I went I felt it had gone downhill. The good news is that I took some out-of-towners to Angie's in Revere, which used to be great!! and then slid to okay... but seems to have improved again quite a bit (not to its previous heights).

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